LSBA Board of Governors
House of Delegates Liaison Committee
Ms. Julie Baxter Payer
2015-2018
602 N 5th St
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Phone: (225) 219-5001
Fax:
Julie J. Baxter is an attorney for the Louisiana Senate. She received a BA degree in broadcast journalism in 1993 from Bob Jones University and her JD/BCL degree in 2005 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 2005.
Julie co-chairs the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Public Information Committee and serves on the Summer School CLE Committee. She also served on the LSBA’s Legislation Committee from 2008-11.
She is a member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association and the Wex Malone American Inn of Court.
She is the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for television investigative reporting, is a Distinguished Academy Fellow with the Academy of Applied Politics in the LSU Manship School of Mass Communications, and was named one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by the Baton Rouge Business Report in 2004.
In her community, she is board president for both the Rebuilding Together Baton Rouge and The ARC Baton Rouge. She also volunteers as a mentor in the public schools. She is the founding chair of the Tiffany Circle Society of Women Leaders and works with the Louisiana Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross.