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Robin Giarrusso

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Robin Giarrusso

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Prior offices
Orleans Parish Civil District Court Division G
Successor: Richard Perque

Education

Bachelor's

Tulane University, 1974

Law

Tulane University Law School, 1977

Robin Giarrusso was a judge for Division G of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court in Louisiana. She left office on May 1, 2023.

Giarrusso (Democratic Party) won re-election for the Division G judge of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court in Louisiana outright in the primary on November 3, 2020, after the general election was canceled.

Elections

2020

See also: City elections in New Orleans, Louisiana (2020)


Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no candidate does, the top two vote recipients from the primary advance to the general election, regardless of their partisan affiliation.

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for Orleans Parish Civil District Court Division G

Incumbent Robin Giarrusso won election outright against Schalyece Harrison in the primary for Orleans Parish Civil District Court Division G on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Robin Giarrusso (D)
 
64.7
 
98,695
Schalyece Harrison (D)
 
35.3
 
53,883

Total votes: 152,578
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2014

See also: Louisiana judicial elections, 2014
Giarrusso ran for re-election to the Orleans Parish Judicial District.
As an unopposed candidate, she was automatically re-elected without appearing on the ballot. [1][2]

Campaign themes

2020

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Education

Giarrusso received her B.A. in political science from Tulane University in 1974 and her J.D. from the Tulane University Law School in 1977.[3][4]

Career

Before her election to the Orleans Parish Judicial District, Giarrusso practiced law with the City Attorney's office, specializing in contract and public bid law.[4]

Awards and associations

Giarrusso was the first recipient of the Michelle Pitard Wynne Professionalism Award, presented to her by the New Orleans Association for Women Attorneys.[4]

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