Hon. Andrea Price Janzen, Judge, Section B
Judge
Andrea Price Janzen was elected in July of 1996, to Section “B” of the
Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court. Prior to being elected Judge, Judge Janzen
had been an Assistant District Attorney in Jefferson Parish since 1982. As a
prosecutor, Judge Janzen served as an assistant in the Juvenile Court from
1983 to 1988, where she prosecuted thousands of Child Abuse, Delinquency and
Child Support Cases. In 1989, Judge Janzen created the Felony Child Abuse
Prosecution Unit of the Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office. As
Supervisor of that division, she was involved in the prosecution of hundreds
of felony cases involving child victims. She has prosecuted child sex abuse
cases in Grand Jury Proceedings, and has prosecuted major child abuse cases
in state court.
Judge Janzen has conducted numerous workshops and lectured on Juvenile and
Child Abuse Laws for many professional groups. She has lectured for the
National Conference of Juvenile Justice; the Louisiana Conference on Child
Abuse; the National and Louisiana Associations of District Attorneys; the
American Academy of Pediatrics; the American Psychological Association;
Family Services Society of Greater New Orleans; the Office of Community
Services; Jefferson Parish Police Academy; the Governor’s Conference on
Juvenile Justice; Loyola University Law School – Juvenile Law Seminar; LSU
Medical School Department of Psychiatry and the Law; various civic and
educational groups throughout the New Orleans area, and numerous other
groups.
Prior to her election, Judge Janzen was President of the Board of Directors
of the Jefferson Children’s Advocacy Center. She was a member of the
Louisiana Children’s Code Committee and of the Jefferson Parish Inter Agency
Task Force. She is currently a member of numerous Judicial and Legal
Organizations, including the Louisiana Council of Juvenile and Family Court
Judges (Past President); the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court
Judges; the American Bar Association; Louisiana State Bar Association; and
the Jefferson Bar Association. She serves on the board of directors for the
5th Circuit Judges Associations (Past President); the Jefferson Community
Charter School; and the Jefferson Parish Children and Youth Planning Board.
She is a past board member of A Child’s Wish of Greater New Orleans, the
Jefferson Twenty-five Political Organization for Women; Loyola University
School of Law Alumni; Boystown of Louisiana; and the 4th and 5th Circuit
Judges Association and continues to be active in Juvenile Justice Reform at
the state and local levels. She was appointed by Governor Jindal to serve on
the Youth Development Advisory Council.
Judge Janzen holds a J.D. degree from Loyola University Law School and a
B.A. in Drama and Communications from the University of New Orleans.