Penya Moses-Fields

City Attorney

Penya Moses-Fields was appointed in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by Mayor C. Ray Nagin as the City Attorney for the City of New Orleans in 2005 to protect the legal interest of the City and to provide legal advice to the Mayor, the City Council and all departments, agencies and boards of the City in accordance with New Orleans’ Home Rule Charter. Prior to her appointment, Moses-Fields served as Deputy City Attorney since February 2003, specifically, as the tax attorney assigned to the Department of Finance to litigate and to collect millions of dollars of revenue as apart of the Administrative Division of the City Attorney’s Office.

A graduate of Grambling State University with a degree in accounting, Moses-Fields received her Juris Doctorate of Law from Loyola University School of Law, along with a Master of Laws in Taxation from Villanova University School of Law.

She has 15 years of experience in accounting and 10 years in the practice of law, nearly 10 years of which have been in an advisory capacity overseeing administration, taxation and transactional issues for corporations, non-profit organizations and small firms.

Moses-Fields owns PMF Consulting, LLC and has served as a Legal & Business Management Consultant, as an Adjunct Professor at Nunez Community College and Associate Counsel and Director of Administration at American MetroComm Corporation, a start-up parent telecommunications company. Her experiences include noteworthy special projects with the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as the publishing copyright of the article, An S Corporation in Bankruptcy: Select Tax Consequences.

She is admitted to practice before Louisiana State Courts and the U.S. Eastern District Court, Notary Public, a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans Bar Association, International Municipal Lawyers Association, Louisiana Parish Attorney’s Association, Louisiana City Attorney’s Association, the Louisiana Department of Economic Development Small & Emerging Business, the New Orleans Aviation Board Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is a licensed minister, ordained elder, motivational conference speaker and moderator. In 2006, Moses-Fields was inducted into Grambling State University’s Alumni Hall of Fame, “Gallery of Distinction” for the College of Business highlighting her notable community service.

Mrs. Moses-Fields is married to Pastor William G. Fields, Sr. and serves along side her husband as First Lady and associate pastor at Greater Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. They have three children, William Jr., Benjamin and Ollivia.