JUDGE MAX N. TOBIAS, JR.
Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit

Judge Max N. Tobias, Jr. is a graduate of Tulane University of Louisiana, receiving both a B.A. and J.D. in 1971. After graduation he served as a law clerk at the Louisiana Supreme Court, and thereafter worked for a large law firm, small law firm, and as a sole practitioner before running for and being elected as a judge of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana, in February 1986. He was re-elected to that position in 1990 and 1996 without opposition. He served as the Chief Judge of that court from 1994-96. In 2000, he was elected without opposition to Louisiana’s Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, and re-elected without opposition to that court in 2006. His current term of office ends in 2016.

In law school and since, Judge Tobias has been active in the field of equal rights for minorities and for women. In that regard, he was a member of the Louisiana Task Force of Women in the Courts and Co-Chairman of the Louisiana Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts. He has been a member of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts since 1992, a member of its board of directors since 2000, and its Moderator (President) from 2004-06. He has been active on the boards of multiple charitable organizations for many years.

Judge Tobias is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Tulane University School of Law. He is the co-editor of the publication: Louisiana Civil Pretrial Procedure. 

Updated February 27, 2008