Antoinette Pierre-Louis

Antoinette Pierre-Louis joined the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in July 2025 as the Director of Academic Success and an Assistant Professor of Law.

Pierre-Louis earned her Juris Doctor from Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad College of Law, where she served on the executive board of the Moot Court Honor Society, was a junior editor for the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, and received the prestigious Broward County Public Service Fellowship.

After graduating in 2011, she began her legal career as a prosecutor for Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County. While serving in this role, she also earned her MBA from Florida International University and was admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar.

In 2015, Pierre-Louis relocated to Duluth, Georgia, where she launched her own law firm and served clients across Fulton, Gwinnett, Dekalb, and Morgan counties. Her practice areas included business law, immigration, family law, intellectual property, and criminal defense.

Her passion for teaching and mentoring led her to academia, first as an adjunct professor at Broward College and then as a full-time Assistant Professor of Paralegal Studies at Palm Beach State College. There, she taught courses including Business Law, Real Estate Transactions, Estate Planning, Tort Law, and Criminal Litigation. She played a key role in securing ABA accreditation for the Paralegal Studies program — one of her proudest professional accomplishments.

In 2019, she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, joining North Carolina Central University School of Law as an Academic Success Specialist. She was later promoted to Senior Academic Specialist and then served as Interim Director of Bar Preparation for the February and July 2024 bar exam administrations. Her teaching portfolio included first-year courses like Critical Thinking and the Summer Start Initiative, as well as upper-division courses such as Advanced Legal Analysis and Comprehensive Legal Analysis. She also created and taught a skills-based Animal Law course after receiving a teaching grant from the Animal Legal Defense Fund, with a focus on Multi-State Performance Test (MPT) preparation.

At McGeorge, she brings her dog Coco and a deep passion for student empowerment as she settles into her new home in Sacramento, surrounded by family in both the Sacramento and Los Angeles areas.