Zelda W. Tucker is deputy city attorney for the City of Shreveport and a sole practitioner. She received a BA degree in English literature in 1983 from Louisiana State University and her JD degree in 1986 from Southern University Law Center. She was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1986.

Zelda is a member of the Louisiana State Law Institute Council, the Shreveport Bar Association and the Louisiana Association of Insurance Defense Counsel. She is the recipient of the Shreveport Bar Association’s Professionalism Award.

In her community, she is a member of the Shreveport Downtown Rotary and the Shreveport Women’s Attorney Association.

Zelda and her husband, James Britt, have been married for 26 years.