The Hon. Robin D. Pittman is a judge for the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court of Louisiana. She was elected to the bench in 2008.
Pittman received a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University in 1991. She then completed a J.D. at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 1996.
Pittman began her legal career as an assistant district attorney with the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office in 1997. Three years later, she became a deputy disciplinary counsel at the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the Louisiana Supreme Court. In 2006, Pittman entered private practice as an associate at Baldwin, Haspel, Burke & Mayer, LLC, where she remained until her election to the bench.
Her memberships include the American Judge’s Association, the National Bar Association Louisiana Judicial Council, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Louisiana Judicial Council, the Louisiana District Judges Association, the National Association of Women Judges, the New Orleans Bar Association’s Fourth and Fifth Circuit Judges Association, the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit, and the Louisiana Association of Black Women Attorneys.
Pittman received the YMCA Role Model Award and the New Orleans City Business Power Generation Award. In addition, she was an honoree for the 2010 Community Action Hero Award for Total Community Action, Inc., and honoree for the 2011 City Business Leadership in Law Award for her work with local youth.
She is a CLE instructor, teaching both Ethics and Professionalism.
Pittman is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She and her husband have two children.
She is registered as a Democrat.