The Hon. Nandi F. Campbell is a judge for the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court of Louisiana. She was elected to the bench in 2020.
Campbell received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and law from the City University of New York. She then worked for more than ten years in the banking industry in New York before accepting a position as manager of the New York City Teachers’ Retirement System, where she remained until 2005. Campbell then completed a J.D. at the University of Georgia School of Law in 2008.
Following her relocation to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2008, she became a staff attorney with the Orleans Public Defenders. The next year, Campbell was named contract conflict panel attorney for the office while also serving in that capacity for the federal Eastern District of Louisiana’s public defender’s offices. She would continue in that role until her election to the bench. Also, in 2009, Campbell established her own private practice.
In addition to her practice there, she was of counsel at Jason, Roger, Williams & Associates (2010 to 2014) and a senior trial attorney at NFC Law, LLC (2009 to 2020). Campbell also taught Trial Advocacy as an associate professor at Tulane Law School and was an adjunct professor at Loyola University School of Law.
One of ten children, her parents, Aminisha Black, and, Jitu Weusi, founded the first independent private school in New York and were active in the Brooklyn of the Black Arts Movement of the '60s and '70s.
She is registered as a Democrat.