Eva J. Dossier ’11 has been selected as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Dossier’s appointment is pending completion of a successful background investigation.
Dossier earned a B.S. in neuroscience from Tulane University, where she was a Dean’s Honor Scholar. She was a John W. Wade Scholar at Vanderbilt Law School and served as editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review. At Vanderbilt Law School, she received Scholastic Excellence Awards in her Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, Torts, and Wills and Trusts classes.
She was a law clerk to Judge Lance M. Africk of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and to Judge James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
She was most recently a member of Stanley Reuter Thornton & Alford, focusing on litigation in Louisiana state and federal courts. Her practice included representing lawyers and law firms in ethics and professional responsibility matters.
She served on the Lawyer Disciplinary Committee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 2017 to 2023.
Dossier served on the adjunct faculty of Tulane Law School, where she teachers an upper-level experiential course on written discovery. She is a frequent speaker on issues related to ethics and professional responsibility.
She is a member of the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, which recognized her with the Jack Martzell Professionalism Award in 2021. She currently serves as a vice president of the New Orleans Bar Association, on the Insurance Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and as an American Bar Foundation Fellow.
She sits on the board of CrescentCare, a federally qualified healthcare center that serves the New Orleans community.