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From 1990 to 1997, Pickett was a judge of the Sabine Parish-based Louisiana 11th Judicial District Court. She succeeded her father, John S. Pickett, Jr. (1920-2014), in the position upon his retirement. Pickett, Jr., had also served from 1960 to 1968 on the Sabine Parish School Board<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warrenmeadows.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2406139&fh_id=11066|title=John S. Pickett, Jr.|publisher=Warrenmeadows.com|date=February 6, 2014|accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref> and from 1968 to 1972 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=March 21, 2019}}</ref> Her grandfather, John Samuel Pickett, Sr., a native of Miller County, [[Arkansas]], sat on the 11th District Court before his granddaughter was born.<ref name=thepicketts/>​

From 1990 to 1997, Pickett was a judge of the Sabine Parish-based Louisiana 11th Judicial District Court. She succeeded her father, John S. Pickett, Jr. (1920-2014), in the position upon his retirement. Pickett, Jr., had also served from 1960 to 1968 on the Sabine Parish School Board<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warrenmeadows.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2406139&fh_id=11066|title=John S. Pickett, Jr.|publisher=Warrenmeadows.com|date=February 6, 2014|accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref> and from 1968 to 1972 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2020|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=March 21, 2019}}</ref> Her grandfather, John Samuel Pickett, Sr., a native of Miller County, [[Arkansas]], sat on the 11th District Court before his granddaughter was born.<ref name=thepicketts/>​

In a [[special election]] for the Division A seat on the state circuit court of appeal held on April 5, 1997, Pickett defeated two male candidates from both parties. The vacancy in the eight-parish seat opened when Jeannette Knoll, a Democrat from Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, was elected in 1996 to the Louisiana Supreme Court. Pickett received 15,322 votes (43.7 percent); Democrat Edward Gordon "Ned" Randolph, Jr. (1942-2016), then the [[mayor]] of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] and a former member of both houses of the state legislature, trailed with 9,974 votes (28.5 percent), and a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], John Gutierrez McLure (born April 1946) of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish, received 9,738 (27.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/04051997/04051997_MultiParish.html|title=Official Election Results: 4/5/1997|publisher=staticresult.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref>​

In a [[special election]] for the Division A seat on the state circuit court of appeal held on April 5, 1997, Pickett defeated two male candidates from both parties. The vacancy in the eight-parish seat opened when Jeannette Knoll, a Democrat from Marksville in Avoyelles Parish, was elected in 1996 to the Louisiana Supreme Court. Pickett received 15,322 votes (43.7 percent); Democrat [[Ned Randolph]], the mayor of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Aexandria]], and [[Republican Party||Republican]], John Gutierrez McLure (born April 1946) of Woodworth in south Rapides Parish, received 9,738 (27.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/04051997/04051997_MultiParish.html|title=Official Election Results: 4/5/1997|publisher=staticresult.sos.la.gov|accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref>​

Randolph declined to pursue a runoff election against Pickett, who was subsequently unopposed for two ten-year terms in 2002 and 2012.​

Randolph declined to pursue a runoff election against Pickett, who was subsequently unopposed for two ten-year terms in 2002 and 2012.​