Government counsel / Fifth Circuit
Western District of Louisiana
The attorneys who appeared for the government in this court's agency-delay suits, read from each suit's attorneys of record. It is a record of who has appeared, not the office's staff list.
Read from the attorneys of record of 22 of the 31 agency-delay suits in the docket record for this court; 8 of them name government counsel. Only the 22 suits with a public docket on CourtListener can be read, and a suit names no government counsel until an attorney appears and that public copy is refreshed afterwards, so older suits, recent suits and quiet districts are thin. Updated November 14, 2026 at 1:17 a.m. CT. How this list is made.
How this court's decisions and suits came out. This court's suits. Every district's attorneys (CSV).
U.S. Attorney's Office
| Attorney | Telephone and email | Suits | Latest suit filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amos Cormier | (337) 262-6618 amos.cormier@usdoj.gov | 1 | June 30, 2026 |
| Desiree C Williams | (337) 262-6618 desiree.williams@usdoj.gov | 1 | September 18, 2025 |
| Edwin Henry Byrd , IV | (318) 676-3600 edwin.byrd@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 18, 2021 |
| Kristen H Bayard | (337) 262-6897 kristen.bayard@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 16, 2024 |
| Shannon Thornhill Smitherman | (318) 676-3600 shannon.smitherman@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 16, 2024 |
From the Justice Department in Washington
Attorneys of the Office of Immigration Litigation and the rest of the Civil Division, who appear in many districts. All of them, with their districts.
| Attorney | Telephone and email | Suits | Latest suit filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Ward | (202) 616-9121 brian.c.ward@usdoj.gov | 2 | March 31, 2023 |
| Elissa Fudim | (202) 451-7460 elissa.p.fudim@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
| Erin Ryan | (202) 532-5802 | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
| Evan Schultz | (202) 353-2999 evan.p.schultz2@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
| Huy Le | (202) 353-4028 huy.m.le2@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 18, 2023 |
| Jordan Kelsey Hummel | (202) 598-8175 jordan.hummel2@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 18, 2023 |
| Joseph Anton Darrow | (202) 598-7537 joseph.a.darrow@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
| Lauren Elizabeth Fascett | (202) 616-3466 lauren.fascett@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 18, 2023 |
| Sarah Lake Vuong | (202) 305-1263 sarah.l.vuong@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 18, 2023 |
| Sydney Anne Jackson | (202) 919-1366 sydney.a.jackson@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
| William Herrick Weiland | (202) 305-0770 william.h.weiland@usdoj.gov | 1 | July 18, 2023 |
Justice Department, office not printed
These dockets print a Justice Department email address for the attorney and no office, so the attorney may belong to this district's U.S. Attorney's Office or to Washington.
| Attorney | Telephone and email | Suits | Latest suit filed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erez R Reuveni | (202) 307-4293 erez.r.reuveni@usdoj.gov | 3 | March 31, 2023 |
| Drew C Ensign | (202) 514-2331 drew.c.ensign@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
| Jean Lin | (202) 353-3098 jean.lin@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 3, 2022 |
| Jody D Lowenstein | (202) 598-9280 jody.d.lowenstein@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 16, 2024 |
| John Robinson | (202) 616-8489 john.j.robinson@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 3, 2022 |
| Johnny Hillary Walker , III | (202) 252-2575 johnny.walker@usdoj.gov | 1 | October 18, 2021 |
| Jonathan D Kossak | (202) 305-0612 jonathan.kossak@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 3, 2022 |
| Joseph John DeMott | (202) 305-5981 joseph.demott@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 3, 2022 |
| Michael E Talent | (202) 514-8976 michael.talent@usdoj.gov | 1 | April 28, 2022 |
Suits counts the agency-delay suits in the docket record in which the attorney is counsel of record; the past-year count runs back one year from the newest suit in the record. Some dockets name an office in an attorney's place, usually before a suit is assigned ("AUSA - Chicago"); those are listed last, marked as office entries, with the office's own mailbox. Telephone numbers and email addresses are the ones printed on the public docket of the attorney's latest suit; confirm them on that docket before relying on them. An attorney who has moved on stays listed, and the date of the latest suit shows how current an entry is. Nothing here says how any attorney's suits ended. Tell us about a correction.