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Louise Graham was born and raised in Beeville, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor’s degree in 1965 and from the University of Texas School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1977. She worked as a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in Texas under Judge Homer Thornberry. She later moved to Kentucky, where she currently is a professor at the J David Rosenberg College of Law at the University of Kentucky. In 1989, the university awarded her the Great Teacher Award, which recognizes professors for outstanding teaching.

Notable Works
Graham is most notably regarded for her work in family law. She is the co-author of Kentucky Domestic Relations Law, the legal treatise for the state. She is also the author of over ten articles in the Kentucky Law Journal concerning specific issues within family law, such as when to use mediation in custody cases, methods of dividing martial and non-marital property, and the protection of privacy in surrogate gestation. Her most cited article, titled A False Public Sentiment: Narrative and Visual Images

of Women Lawyers in Film, discusses the representation of female lawyers in popular media and how that can affect perceptions of female lawyers in real life.