Carolyn Parmenter is an attorney in the Baton Rouge office of Kean Miller. She practices in the labor and employment law group. She represents local, regional and national industrial clients in cases involving the EEOC, ADA, sexual harassment, and wrongful termination.

She served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Harry T. Lemmon, Associate Justice, Louisiana Supreme Court, from 1983 to 1984 and as a Senior Law Clerk to the Hon. Wallace Edwards, Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal, from 1984 to 1988. She served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Loyola Law School from 1991 to 1992.

Education

Carolyn earned her B. Mus., with honors, from Oklahoma City University in 1967 and her M.Ed from Oklahoma Central State University in 1971. She earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from Loyola University in 1983 where she was a member and Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola Law Review.

Admissions

• Admitted to bar, 1983, Louisiana
• Admitted, U.S. District Court for the Middle, Western and Eastern Districts of Louisiana, 1988
  
• Admitted, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Memberships

• Baton Rouge, Covington, Louisiana State and American Bar Associations

Community Service

• Board of Directors, Louisiana Vocal Arts Society.
• Member, Louisiana Vocal Arts Chorale.
• Choir Director/Organist, St. Anselm Church, Madisonville.
• Choir Director, Christ Episcopal Church, Covington.

Articles, Publications and Presentations

Labor & Employment Notes, March 2004
Labor & Employment Notes, September 2004
Labor & Employment Notes, March 2005
Labor & Employment Notes, June 2004
Labor and Employment Notes, September 2005
Labor and Employment Notes, April 2008

Authorships

• ELECTRA Revisited: Calculation of Damages for Interrupted Production, 38th Annual Louisiana Mineral Law Institute 335 (1991).
• EEOC Jurisdiction Over Churches: How Far Does it Go?, 28 Loyola Law Review 322.