The Hon. Yvette M. Alexander is a judge for the City Court of Baton Rouge in Louisiana. She was elected to the bench in 1995.
Alexander received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Grambling State University. She then completed a J.D. at Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
After graduating from law school, Alexander began her legal career as counsel for the Louisiana State House of Representatives and the Louisiana State Senate. She then transitioned into handling criminal matters as an attorney for the East Baton Rouge Parish Public Defender’s Office and for Moore & Moore in Baton Rouge.
In 1988, she began a seven-year stint as chief legal counsel for the Louisiana Department of State under former Secretary of State Fox McKeithen. As such, Alexander also served as a member of both the Louisiana State Bond Commission and the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System, and she was an assistant attorney general in the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office.
She is a past president of the American Judges Association, the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, the East Baton Rouge Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, the Louisiana Judicial Council Foundation, the LSU Law Center Black Alumni, the Grambling State University Alumni Association (Charles P. Adams Chapter), and the Louisiana Judicial Council of the National Bar Association.
Her other memberships include the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Baton Rouge Bar Association, the American Judges Association, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Baton Rouge Association of Women Attorneys.
Alexander was born in Monroe, Louisiana. She is the mother to two grown daughters.