Judge Natalie Rhorer Howell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Louisiana State University with her Bachelor’s Degree in 2003. She received her Juris Doctorate at the LSU Paul M. Hebert School of Law in 2006. She clerked at the 1st Judicial District Court of Louisiana for the Honorable Jeannette Garrett and the Honorable Scott Crichton. She was an Assistant District Attorney from 2007-2015 at the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office in both adult court and Juvenile Court. In 2016, she began working for the John D. & Eric G. Johnson Law Firm, where she specialized in criminal defense for adults and juveniles. In November of 2020, Natalie was elected to the Caddo Parish Juvenile Court for Division B. She took the bench in January of 2021 and presides over Juvenile Delinquency cases, Family in Need of Services cases, Protective Orders, Juvenile Marriages, and Judicial By-Pass cases. Natalie presides over 3 specialty courts: Truancy Court, Juvenile Drug Court and Individualized Disposition Docket (Mental Health Court).
Her mission is to keep as many juveniles from entering the adult criminal justice system as possible starting as early as Kindergarten by combating truancy and providing children and families with the tools and resources to be productive adults in hopes of making Caddo Parish a community for which we can all be proud!