James Jerome Carter is a nationally accomplished attorney, statesman, educator, and author who has been practicing law for over 25 years. His practice areas include catastrophic injuries cases and commercial litigation. Mr. Carter is presently the Vice President of Finance for the National Bar Association.

Mr. Carter obtained his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Howard University. He then graduated from Howard University School of Law, where he serves on the Board of Visitors. He is a formidable trial attorney who is responsible for recovering millions of dollars on behalf of clients, both personal and corporate, throughout the United States. His skillfully aggressive approach to the civil jury trial world gained him elite membership in the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He received a prized certification in Mass Tort Multi-District Litigation from the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke University School of Law and in 2021 earned a certificate in Governing for Nonprofit Excellence from Harvard Business School. He is currently one of seven Commissioners of the globally significant Port of New Orleans. For his accomplishments as an attorney and public servant, Grambling State University and the University of New Orleans awarded him honorary doctorate degrees.

Mr. Carter is admitted to practice in all Louisiana state courts, all Michigan state courts, all Louisiana United States District Courts, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as the United States Supreme Court. In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, he was recognized by Law Dragon 500 for excellence and leadership in the legal profession. He has been recognized by New Orleans City Business Magazine as a Leader in Law in 2012 and 2016. He is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, State Bar of Michigan, The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (Executive Committee), National Bar Association (Life Member), and Litigation Counsel of America, limited to less than one-half of one percent of North American lawyers, judges and scholars. He has also served on the Louisiana Association for Justice Council of Directors.

He is a civil trial litigation Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Law and served as an Adjunct Trial Advocacy Professor at Tulane University School of Law. Mr. Carter served as past Chairman of the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors (ULS)-the governing body that provides policy guidance and fiscal oversight for nine public universities in Louisiana. Mr. Carter has lectured in England, France, Canada, Barbados, Panama, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and across the United States.

James Carter is married to Dr. Rene Carter, a 28-year retired educator, who was recognized in 2016 by the Louisiana Department of Education as the Middle School Principal of the Year.