Board of Directors

Honorable Sandra Cabrina Jenkins, Secretary

Honorable Sandra Cabrina Jenkins is a former Assistant District Attorney for the Parish of Orleans, criminal defense attorney, and certified accredited Veterans Affairs attorney, practiced law for 23 years before she was elected to the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal on November 6, 2012. Judge Jenkins was re-elected to a second term, unopposed, in 2022.

She is a graduate of Louisiana State University (Political Science); Southern University, (Master of Public Administration); Southern University Law Center, (Juris Doctor); and Mercer University, McAfee School of Theology, Atlanta, GA (Master of Divinity).

Judge Jenkins has served as a faculty member of the National Judicial College; the National Judicial Opioid Task Force faculty member for the State of Louisiana and a Judicial Education Faculty Member for the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Domestic Violence LPOR program. Judge Jenkins was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for JLAP (Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program, Inc.). She serves as Secretary of the Louisiana Judicial Council National Bar Association, co-chairs the Bi-laws committee of the American Judges Association, is on the Executive Board of The Fourth and Fifth Circuit Judges Association, and has served as the Louisiana state chair for District 6 of the National Association of Women Judges. She also serves on various committees of the Louisiana State Bar Association, American Bar Association, the National Association of Women Judges and the American Judges Association. She is on the Board of Directors for Operation Restoration, an organization supporting women and girls impacted by incarceration. Judge Jenkins has served as an adjunct professor at Xavier University of Louisiana since 2010.

Judge Jenkins makes every effort to blend her profession, ministry and community involvement. She is a licensed Minister. Minister Jenkins developed Sisters of T.A.M.A.R, a ministry for women and girls who have experienced sexual/domestic violence. She also facilitates the annual Women’s Retreat, EPREP (Empowering Women through Prayer, Restoration, Expectation and Promise). For more than a decade Minister Jenkins authored “Giving God 40 Days” a compilation of Meditations and Prayers for the Church’s 40 days of Fasting and Prayer.

In 2015, she created Judge Jenkins Law Camps. The Law Camps are an educational tool to encourage community dialogue about the judicial system, the Rule of Law, and legal issues relevant to the diverse communities in our City. Her camps include “Justice without Bias,” “Law, Body and Soul,” and “The Civility of Civics.”

Honorable Darrel J. Papillion, Director

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