Lynn Luker is of counsel in the New Orleans law firm of Stanley, Reuter, Ross, Thornton & Alford, L.L.C. She received a BA degree in psychology in 1978 from the University of New Orleans, her JD degree in 1981 from Tulane University Law School (Order of Barristers), an LLM (with distinction) in admiralty law in 1985 from Tulane Law School and an LLM in energy and environmental law in 1992 from Tulane Law School. She was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1981 and in Massachusetts in 2007.

Lynn chairs the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Civil Law and Litigation Section and is a member of the LSBA’s Committee on the Profession and the CLE Committee.

She is an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School and co-director of the Trial Advocacy and Civil Pre-Trial Boot Camp. She is also a mediator/arbitrator for Perry Dampf Dispute Solutions and a proctor in admiralty for the Maritime Law Association. She has served as judge pro tempore for Orleans Parish Civil District Court and is a former chair of the Louisiana Judiciary Commission. She has received several awards, including the LSBA’s Human Rights Award, the Tulane Law School Distinguished Teaching Award and the Association of Women Attorneys’ Michaelle Pitard Wynne Professionalism Award.

In her community, she mentors women, minorities, young lawyers and young people. She is a Sunday school teacher and lector for Trinity Episcopal Church. She is the mother of two children.