Representative, United States House of Representatives, Louisiana, District 6, 2025-present

Former Member, Finance Committee

Former Member, Labor and Industrial Relations Committee

Former Member, Legislative Budgetary Control Council

Former Member, Select Committee on Homeland Security

Former Member, Senate Executive Committee

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Louisiana, District 6, 2024, 2026

Senator, Louisiana State Senate, District 14, 1987-1992, 1998-2008; 2020-2024

Candidate, Louisiana State Senate, District 14, 2019, 2023

Representative, United States House of Representatives, Louisiana, District 4, 1993-1997

Candidate, Governor of Louisiana, 1995

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Louisiana, District 4, 1990, 1992, 1994

Member, Committee on Financial Services

Member, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy

Member, Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets

Member, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Financial Services)

Chair, Senate & Governmental Affairs Committee

Chair, Legislative Black Caucus, 2000-2001

Founder/Attorney, The Fields Law Firm, LLC, 1998-present

Former President/Chief Executive Officer, Cleo Fields and Associates

Former Founder, Cleo Live

Former Law Clerk, East Baton Rouge Parish Attorney's Office

Former Law Clerk, East Baton Rouge Parish City Prosecutor's Office

Former General Counsel, Rainbow/Push Board of Trustees

Chair, College Students for the State-Wide Voter Registration/Education March

Founder, Louisiana Leadership Institute

Member, Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church

Board of Trustees Co-Chair, Rainbow/Push

Founder/Executive Director, Young Adults for Positive Education