Personal Life
Peterson lives in New Orleans’ Warehouse District. She is married to Dana Peterson, a political consultant. The couple has no children. She appears in Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina, When the Levees Broke. Carter Peterson's sense of humor was manifest during the closing days of the 2009 legislative regular session when a cabinet official in Governor Bobby Jindal's administration accidentally coughed on her after he had tested positive for swine flu virus; the following day, Carter Peterson emerged in the House chamber wearing a hospital mask, prompting colleague state representative Jared Brossett to move that the House be "fully quarantined" until the plague subsided.
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