Susie Morgan

Donna Sue "Susie" Morgan, known professionally as Susie Morgan, formerly known as Donna Sue Beach and Donna Sue Leteff, (born April 22, 1953) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Early life and education Born in Winnsboro, Louisiana, Morgan earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1974 from Northeast Louisiana University in Monroe, Louisiana, and her Master of Arts in 1976. She obtained a Juris Doctor; Order of the Coif in 1980 from the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Career Morgan first served from 1980 to 1981 as a law clerk to Judge Henry Anthony Politz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Morgan joined the Shreveport firm of Wiener, Weiss and Madison in 1981, where she started as an associate and became a partner in 1985. She worked with them for more than 24 years. On November 10, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported her nomination to the floor of the Senate by a voice vote. On March 28, 2012, her nomination was confirmed by a 96–1 vote. She received her commission on March 30, 2012.

In June 2024, Morgan ruled that the rap artist B.G., who was on supervised release from federal prison at the time, would be required to provide the US government with copies of any song lyrics that he writes prior to the song's production or promotion, and that federal prosecutors could seek to toughen the terms of his supervised release if the lyrics are judged to be "inconsistent with the goals of rehabilitation."