Becky Hunter

Becky is from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and graduated from Sam Houston High School as Valedictorian. She attended Texas A&M University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and graduated with Cum Laude honors. Upon graduation, she was selected to be a White House intern in the Office of Presidential Advance. Afterwards, she worked as the SWLA Regional Representative for U.S. Senator David Vitter.

She graduated from Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where in addition to her studies, she worked as a lobbying intern at the Louisiana Legislature and as a student attorney for victims of domestic violence. Following graduation from law school, she worked as a law clerk for Judge Penelope Q. Richard in the 38th Judicial District Court, Cameron, Louisiana.

Since the beginning of her legal practice, she has consistently practiced family law, successfully litigating complex divorces, community property partitions, highly contested custody cases, and unifying families in both stepparent and private adoptions.

Becky is the only family law attorney in this region of the state appointed to the prestigious Louisiana State Law Institute’s Family Law and Community Property Committee, which is the official State of Louisiana advisory law revision commission, law reform, and legal research agency for family law legislation. She is also appointed to the Fourteenth Judicial District Family and Juvenile Court’s Local Rules Committee, a small group of lawyers and judges who determine the procedural rules for the Fourteenth Judicial District Family and Juvenile Court in Calcasieu Parish.

Active in the legal community, she has served as President of the SWLA Bar Association, serves as Secretary/Treasurer of the SWLA Bar Foundation, and is a member of the House of Delegates for the Louisiana State Bar Association. She is an instructor for the Trial Advocacy Program at Louisiana State University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center (“LSU Law School”) and is on the planning committee for, and is an instructor at, the statewide LSU Law School’s Family Law Conference.

Becky has been consistently recognized over the years for her excellence as an attorney, including, but not limited to, being listed in the “Ones to Watch” by Best Lawyers, honored as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, and named to the “Top Lawyers in Acadiana” list by Acadiana Profiles Magazine, for over a decade.

Becky is married to the former mayor of Lake Charles, Nic Hunter. They are co-owners of a restaurant, Villa Harlequin, and have a son and two daughters.