[1] Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Little received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1958.
[2] On September 11, 1984, Little was nominated to the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana by President Ronald Reagan to fill the position vacated by the retirement of Judge Nauman Scott, an original appointee of President Richard Nixon.
[2] While in the Western District, Little sat on some 250 cases on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth circuits.
[3] Upon retirement from the federal bench, Little was for nearly nine years the Chief Tribal Judge for the Coushatta Indian Tribe in Kinder, Louisiana.
[1] Little returned to private practice in Alexandria after his judicial tenure and specializes in arbitration, mediation, and appellate review.