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Former*Louisiana Supreme Court counsel Alanah Odoms Hebert has been named executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, whose former director Marjorie Esman retired last year after a decade at the helm of the civil rights organization.*Jane Johnson served as interim executive director.

Hebert was recently*Director of the Division of Children and Families at the Louisiana Supreme Court, and for four years she served as the deputy general counsel for the court.*She also is chair of a statewide program to reduce pretrial detention among youth offenders*through the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative.

In 2016, she was appointed as a liaison for the judicial arm of the state's Justice Reinvestment Task Force, which she says helped her see "firsthand how the justice system often harms the very communities it ought to protect ? fueling a mass incarceration crisis with staggering human costs and stark racial disparities."

"So, for me, this is personal," she said.?