Judge John Michael Guidry received his B.A. in Political Science from LSU in 1983 and is a 1987 Cum Laude graduate of the Southern University Law Center.

Judge Guidry formerly served as a legislative assistant to the Honorable Joseph A. Delpit and as the Assistant Clerk of the Louisiana House of Representatives.  He also served as an Assistant Parish Attorney for the City of Baton Rouge and the Parish of East Baton Rouge.

Judge Guidry is a former commissioner of the Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission and the Greater Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport Commission.  Since 1988, Judge Guidry has served as an adjunct professor at the Southern University Law Center.  He has also served as an adjunct professor in the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Southern University.  Judge Guidry was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1991 and to the Louisiana State Senate in 1993.  He was first elected to his current position, as a Judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeal, in October 1997.

Judge Guidry is a member of the American and National Bar Associations, as well as the American Judges Association.  He is also a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the Baton Rouge Bar Association and the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society.  He is a member of the Louisiana Conference Court of Appeal Judges, and the Louisiana Judicial Council of the National Bar Association.

Judge Guidry serves as the Louisiana Conference of Court of Appeal Judges’ representative to the Louisiana Judicial Council and has been appointed twice by the Louisiana Supreme Court, on the recommendation of its Chief Justice, to serve on the governing body of the Louisiana Judicial College.  In 2014, Judge Guidry served as President of the Louisiana Judicial College Board of Governors.  He is also a member of the Louisiana Domestic Violence Judicial Curriculum Advisory Committee and a member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association Pro Bono Committee.

Judge John Michael Guidry is married to the former Carol Fowler, and they have a son, John Morgan, and a daughter, Kennedy Michelle.