Andrea Armstrong (lawyer)

Andrea Armstrong (born 1976 or 1977) is an American legal scholar writing on the topic of incarceration law.^[2][3] She is the Dr. Norman C. Francis Distinguished Professor of Law at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.^[2][1] In 2023, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.^[3]

Andrea Armstrong
Armstrong pictured outside Loyola University New Orleans in 2023
Born	1976 or 1977
Academic background
Education	New York University (B.A.) Princeton University (M.P.A.) Yale University (J.D.)[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Legal studies
Sub-discipline	Incarceration law
Institutions	Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Biography

Armstrong graduated from New York University in 1996, receiving a B.A.^[2] She then received an M.P.A. from Princeton University in 2001.^[4] In 2007, she received a J.D. from Yale Law School.^[2][1] Following her law school graduation, she was a clerk for Helen G. Berrigan, a district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.^[1][4]