Find St. Bernard Parish District Court

St. Bernard Parish District Court

The Thirty-Fourth Judicial District Court is the primary trial court for St. Bernard Parish. The official court site states that the court is one of Louisiana's judicial districts and has original jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters in the parish. In practical terms, this is the court for district-level lawsuits, felony and many misdemeanor criminal proceedings, divorce and family matters, protective-order and domestic filings when assigned to district court, probate or succession matters, and other filings that Louisiana law places in a court of general jurisdiction.

The court sits at the St. Bernard Parish Courthouse at 1101 W. St. Bernard Highway, Chalmette, LA 70043. The Clerk of Court, District Attorney, indigent defender, drug court administrator, and language access coordinator are all identified through official court sources. For records, the Clerk is the filing and copy office. For a live hearing, order, courtroom assignment, or division-specific issue, the correct division staff may be the better contact.

St. Bernard District Court Divisions

The 34th JDC is divided into five elected divisions, labeled A through E. Each division has its own judge and staff contacts. Division staff information is useful when a case is already assigned to a judge and the public needs a hearing contact, minute clerk, law clerk, bailiff, court reporter, fax number, or division email. It is not a substitute for the Clerk's record system when the need is a copy or filing search.

The Division A source page identifies Judge William Martin "Billy" McGoey and division contacts.

Division A details help users direct assigned-case questions to the right courtroom staff instead of sending them to a general office.

The Division B source page lists Judge Jeanne Nunez Juneau and also connects to the court's language-access role.

Division B is especially relevant for users who need interpreter or language-services information before a court appearance.

The Division C source page provides Judge Kim Cooper Jones's division contact details.

Division C contact data is useful when a docket entry or order points to that division.

The Division D source page identifies Judge Darren Roy and the division office contacts.

Division D details help distinguish a judge's office from the Clerk's copy and filing role.

The Division E source page lists Judge Eric A. Bopp and division staff.

Division E information completes the five-division map for assigned St. Bernard Parish District Court matters.

District Court vs Lower Courts

Louisiana's district courts are courts of general jurisdiction. St. Bernard Parish also has 44th Justice of the Peace Courts and Constables arranged in districts A through K, plus practical local citation and payment channels through the Sheriff's Office. Federal cases from St. Bernard Parish do not belong to the 34th JDC unless a separate state-court filing exists. The comparison below is framed around custody and user route, since the research does not provide a local dollar-limit table for every JP function.

The lower-court list is broad because St. Bernard Parish has JP districts A through K. Users should match the address, ward, citation, eviction, or civil paper to the correct JP district rather than assuming every local dispute appears in the 34th JDC Clerk portal.

How District Cases Move

Court records change as a case moves. A new civil case usually begins with a petition or other initiating pleading filed with the Clerk. Service follows, then an answer or default issue, motions, discovery, settlement talks, trial settings, judgment, and possible appeal. A criminal case may begin with arrest and booking at the Sheriff's Office, then a magistrate or bond setting, DA screening, bill of information or indictment, arraignment, motions, plea or trial, disposition, sentence, and possible appeal. The Clerk's file is the record route once the matter is filed in district court.

Criminal flow: Arrest › Magistrate or First Appearance › DA Screening › Bill of Information or Indictment › Arraignment › Pretrial Motions › Plea or Trial › Disposition › Sentencing › Appeal.

Civil flow: Petition Filed › Service › Answer or Default Issue › Motions › Discovery › Mediation or Settlement › Trial › Judgment › Appeal.

Minute entry

A short official record of what happened in court.

Disposition

The outcome of a charge, claim, or case event.

Judgment

A court decision that resolves an issue or case.

Magistrate Rotation and Access

The 34th JDC publishes a 2026 magistrate rotation. Magistrate work is important for early criminal-case events, bond settings, warrants, first appearances, and certain emergency orders. The rotation assigns the magistrate role by month to one of the five divisions. The DA site and app also advertise magistrate court and bond-setting information, which makes the rotation useful for people tracking a new arrest or warrant-related case before a full Clerk criminal record is easy to locate.

Language access is also part of court access. The 34th JDC lists Judge Jeanne Nunez Juneau as Language Access Coordinator at 504-278-4420 and publishes interpreter and language-services links in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Users who need an interpreter should contact the court before the hearing date rather than waiting until arrival.

Orders Forms and History

The 34th JDC orders and forms page is not a case-search portal, but it is still a key court-user resource. It contains court closure orders, guided forms, civil forms links, and the Legal Help Access Point note. The Legal Help Access Point is located at the St. Bernard Parish Government Complex, 8201 W. Judge Perez Drive, Chalmette, and offers no-cost civil legal resources on a walk-in basis. It should not be described as a records counter. It is better understood as a civil legal help location for self-represented users who need forms or procedural direction.

St. Bernard's court setting also has an unusually strong courthouse-history thread. The historic courthouse site on Bayou Road dates to parish-seat history beginning with an 1848 property sale for $1, followed by relocations, a courthouse fire, the 1915 courthouse, a 1938 vote that moved the parish seat toward Chalmette, school use, Hurricane Katrina damage, Camp Hope volunteer use, and restoration completed in 2012. Louisiana Supreme Court annual material also noted that after Katrina, several 34th JDC judges lived in the courthouse for days after the storm. That history helps explain why official court operations, closures, and continuity notices matter locally.

Appeals and Federal Courts

Appeals from St. Bernard Parish state trial-court matters go through Louisiana's appellate structure. The parish is associated with the Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit region, with further review possible in the Louisiana Supreme Court. The district court remains the local trial court; the appellate court reviews records and judgments under appellate rules rather than acting as a new filing counter for routine Clerk copies.

Federal court records are separate. St. Bernard Parish falls within the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Federal trial records are searched through PACER or CM/ECF, not the St. Bernard Clerk portal. Bankruptcy matters route to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Federal appeals go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. A federal firearm, immigration, bankruptcy, tax, civil-rights, maritime, or federal employment case will not appear in local district-court records unless a separate state filing exists.