Chief Judge for the 16th Judicial District Roger Hamilton was awarded the Robert Morrison Legislative Leadership award by the Louisiana District Judges Association at the Fall Judges Conference.

Hamilton was elected to serve as District Court Judge, Division H of the 16th Judicial District Court in 2020. Hamilton was selected as Chief Judge for the 16th Judicial District in September.

Currently, Judge Hamilton serves as a member of the American Judges Association Criminal and Juvenile Justice Committee and the Louisiana Supreme Court Judicial Security Committee.

Hamilton was born and raised in St Martin Parish. His family moved from St Martin Parish to Iberia Parish. He graduated from New Iberia Senior High School in 1994. He attended Nicholls State University and graduated Cum Laude in 1998. He was selected into the Nicholls State University Hall of Fame in 1998. He graduated in 2001 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center with his Juris Doctor. 

His parents are Carmen and the late Roger Hamilton Sr. He has a daughter Regan Paige Hamilton.

Hamilton served as President of the Louisiana 4-H Foundation and was a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association House of Delegates.  He coached girls basketball at Catholic High and Loreauville High School.

He began his legal career in 2001 as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Paul J. deMahy. He began working as an Assistant District Attorney in May 2002 until December 2020. Hamilton also served as general counsel to the Lafayette Parish School Board and the City of Jeanerette. 

Hamilton served as an adjunct professor at South Louisiana Community College and Nicholls State University.