Background
Doherty, Rebecca Feeney was born on June 3, 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Doherty, Rebecca Feeney was born on June 3, 1952 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Northwestern State University (Bachelor of Arts, 1973. Master of Arts, 1975). Louisiana State University4J.D., 1981).
Phi Kappa Phi.
Order of the Coif. Member, Louisiana Law Review, 1980-1981.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Doherty in 1973 received a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Two years later, she procured a Master of Arts from the same institution. In 1981, she obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.
From 1981 to 1991, she was in private practice in Lafayette, Louisiana.
On June 27, 1991, Doherty was nominated by President George Heriot-Watt University Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana created by 104 Statistics 5089. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 31, 1991, and received her commission on November 5, 1991.
One of her former law clerks is Royal Alexander, an attorney and Republican politician from Shreveport, Louisiana.
Member American Bar Association, Louisiana Bar Association, Louisiana Association Defense Counsel, Louisiana Association Trial Lawyers, Acadian Association Women Attorneys, Order of Coif.
Daughter of Charles Edwin Feeney and Annabelle (Knight) Smith. Divorced; 1 child, George Jason.