Assistant Professor of Clinical Education
mburden@sulc.edu
(225) 771-5743

Courses taught : domestic violence law clinic 

Marcia Burden, clinical professor for the Domestic Violence/Divorce Law Clinic, received a B.S. from Louisiana State University and a J.D. from SULC.  Prior to joining the Law Center ’s Clinical Education Program as a full-time assistant clinical professor in January 2007, Burden served as an adjunct professor in the newly created Domestic Violence Law Clinic during the 2003-2006 academic school years.  She also served as an adjunct clinical professor for the juvenile law clinic in the spring of 1997. Burden has worked as a general practitioner in the law firm of Burden and Burden where her emphasis was focused on representing women and children.  She has served as an assistant public defender with the East Baton Rouge Parish Office of Public Defender.  Burden has also represented victims of domestic violence through the Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center ’s Battered Women’s Program.  Marcia Burden has also served as a Judge Pro Tempore, Non-Support Hearing Officer and Traffic Court Referee in East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Court.  She has also been a CLE Lecturer on juvenile law focusing on children in need of care.