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For almost 17 years, Carol Anne Blitzer has covered the social scene with Mary McCowan. Their popular Coffee with Carol Anne and Mary column appears in the Sunday People section. Blitzer also writes the Landmarks series, a monthly People section feature on historic buildings in the area. For the past several years, she has interviewed area cooks for the series, In Louisiana Kitchens, a weekly feature in The Advocate's Food section.[CR-LF][CR-LF]The Natchez, Miss., native is a graduate of Natchez-Adams High School. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and graduated from LSU with a bachelor of arts in pre-law with a major in English and a minor in Spanish. She is a graduate of LSU's Paul M. Hebert Law Center with a juris doctor degree. She has taken numerous continuing legal education courses and is a member of the Louisiana State Bar and Baton Rouge Bar associations.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Blitzer worked as a research assistant for the Louisiana State Law Institute until the birth of her first child in 1971. She is a past president of the Junior League of Baton Rouge and a former member of the boards of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Magnolia Mound, the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, the Speech and Hearing Foundation, Congregation B'nai Israel, Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge, Catholic Community Services and the National Conference for Community and Justice.

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