Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Catherine D. "Kitty" Kimball

Catherine Kimball was born in Alexandria in 1945, graduated from Bolton High School there and took her law degree at the LSU Law Center in 1970. In 1983 she became the first woman to serve as a judge in the 18th Judicial District, which includes Pointe Coupee. In 1992 she became the first woman elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court, taking her seat in 1993. She led the court as Chief Justice from January 2009 to February 2013 and left the bench that year.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 8.0 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.
• Port Hudson State Historic Site — 8.7 mi
  The 48-day siege of 1863 on the Mississippi bluffs, where the Louisiana Native Guards and Captain Andre Cailloux led the first assault; earthworks, a six-mile trail and a museum.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 10 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 21 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.

More markers nearby

• John Archer LeJeune — steps away
• Lieutenant General John Archer Lejeune — steps away
• Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré — steps away
• Major General Delesseps S. "Chep" Morrisson — 0.2 mi