Margaret L. Manning

Biography

Ms. Manning received her Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, cum laude, with Honors College Distinction, from Louisiana State University in 2017, and graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2020.

While attending Notre Dame, Ms. Manning competed as a member of the Notre Dame Law School Barrister’s Mock Trial Team and was an active member of the Notre Dame Law Student Bar Association, serving as 1L Representative, Communications Director, and Executive Board Secretary. Upon graduation, she received the faculty-elected Kyle D. Smith Mock Trial Award and the King Williams Memorial Award.

Following law school, Ms. Manning clerked for Chief Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr., of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

Ms. Manning serves on the New Orleans Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Executive Council, the Association of Women Attorneys of New Orleans Board, and presently represents Orleans Parish as the District 1 Representative for the Louisiana State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Executive Council. She is also a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association Committee on the Profession, the New Orleans Bar Association Inn of Court, and the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.