An 18-year-old is graduating this weekend with his juris doctor from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.
Jimmy Chilimigras, a Bay St. Louis native and the oldest son of seven, completed high school at 12 and earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in accounting by 15.
Chilimigras is considered the world’s youngest Certified Public Accountant and is projected to be the youngest law school graduate in Louisiana.
According to Loyola, he excelled at the highest level, ranking in the top 2% in his class, earned the top grade in more than 40% of his courses, and is projected to graduate summa cum laude.
Chilimigras was also named an Ignatian Law Scholar upon admission and will graduate as a William L. Crowe, Sr. Scholar, awarded to the top 10% of his class.
He will graduate with five certificates of concentration, including taxation law, social justice, immigration and citizenship law, international legal studies, and technology and entrepreneurship, a distinction believed to be unmatched at Loyola.
After graduating, he will attend Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law to pursue an LLM in taxation, making it his fourth degree before the age of 20.
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