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Louisiana Bar Foundation’s 20th Annual Fellows Gala
Friday, May 5, 2006

Join the Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) on Friday, May 5 at the nationally celebrated Houmas House Plantation in Gonzales. Special guests of honor will be the LBF’s 2005 Distinguished Jurist, Hon. Jay C. Zainey, U. S. District Court; Distinguished Professors, Dean Brian Bromberger from Loyola University School of Law and Chancellor Freddie Pitcher, Jr. of Southern University Law Center; and Distinguished Attorney Mr. H. Alston Johnson III, of Phelps Dunbar. The theme "Rebuilding Louisiana Begins with the Foundation," celebrates the importance of the LBF to Louisiana’s recovery.

This event promises to be spectacular. Exceptional dining awaits you with Houmas House Chef Jeremy Langlois who received national recognition for the plantation’s restaurant Latil’s Landing, named one of the country’s top 20 restaurants in Esquire. Abbreviated tours of the restored historical plantation and gardens will be offered to our guests.

Cocktails begin at 7pm in honor of the Fellows class of 2005 and class of 1986. Dinner will follow at 8pm in conjunction with a silent auction. A patron party will be held the on Thursday, May 4 at the home of Dr. and Mrs. John Fraiche.

Rooms are available at The Cook Hotel on LSU’s campus starting at $93 until April 12. Call the hotel directly at 225-383-2665 to make reservations.

Round trip transportation is available by reservation only for $10 per person. The busses will run from The Cook Hotel to the Houmas House and from New Orleans to the Houmas House. A patron party will be held the evening before the dinner, on Thursday, May 4.

Tickets to the dinner are $100 per person. Sponsorships including patron party and dinner tickets are also available.

RSVP by April 12, 2006.

For more information contact Donna Cuneo at 504.561.1046 or donna@raisingthebar.org.

Co-Chairs
Mathile W. Abramson Janet S. Boles

Board Liaison
Cyrus J. Greco

Auction Chair
Edna Ayliffe Latchem

Jane H. Barney
David F. Bienvenu
Kim M. Boyle
Jeanne C. Comeaux
Catherine C. Creed
Christian C. Creed
James P. Dore’
Dr. Rachel L. Emanuel
Marvin C. Gros
Tara B. Hawkins
Jan M. Hayden
Scott N. Hensgens
Hon. Guy P. Holdridge
Prof. Kathryn V. Lorio
Patrick S. Ottinger
Aimee M. Quirk
Laura N. Sylvester

Class of 2005

Barbara G. Baier, Baton Rouge
William Blake Bennett, New Orleans
Carmelite M. Bertaut, New Orleans
William J. Billeaud, Metairie
Janet S. Boles, Baton Rouge
Hon. James Brady, Baton Rouge
Philip S. Brooks, New Orleans
Robert L. Broussard, Lafayette
Denise Langlois Brown, New Orleans
Rebecca G. Bush, New Orleans
Kathleen K. Charvet, New Orleans
Jeffrey M. Cole, Lake Charles
Walter Comeaux, Baton Rouge
Jonathan R. Cook, New Orleans
Fred T. Crifasi, Baton Rouge
Bernadette Gomes D'Souza, New Orleans
Hon. Laura Prosser Davis, Baton Rouge
Sandra Diggs-Miller, New Orleans
Gregory P. DiLeo, New Orleans
Arlene C. Edwards, Baton Rouge
James C. Exnicios, New Orleans
Pauline Feist, Avondale
Bradford H. Felder, Lafayette
Tim L. Fields, New Orleans
Michael K. Fitzpatrick, New Orleans
Jason E. Fontenot, Lafayette
Charles Foti, Jr., Baton Rouge
James Garner, New Orleans
Monique M. Garsaud, New Orleans
Lewis M. Gladney, Natchitoches
Brace B. Godfrey, Jr., Baton Rouge
Karleen J. Green, Baton Rouge
Neeley Griffith, New Orleans
Steven F. Griffith, Jr., New Orleans
Leo C. Hamilton, Baton Rouge
Franchesca L. Hamilton-Acker, Lafayette
Douglas R. Holmes, New Orleans
Shannon S. Holtzman, New Orleans
Dominick Impastato III, New Orleans
G. William Jarman, Baton Rouge
Hon. Sheral C. Kellar, Baton Rouge
Brian M. Klebba, New Orleans
Eric A. Kracht, Baton Rouge
Hon. Lori A. Landry, St. Martinville
Edna Ayliffe Latchem, Baton Rouge
Andrew R. Lee, New Orleans
J. Eric Lockridge, Baton Rouge
Prof. John Lovett, New Orleans
Dr. E. Ralph Lupin, New Orleans
James C. McMichael, Jr., Shreveport
Michael J. Mestayer, New Orleans
Kenner O. Miller, Jr., Baton Rouge
Prof. Jacqueline Nash, Baton Rouge
John T. Nesser IV, New Orleans
Gus David Oppermann V, Houston
Trenton J. Oubre, Baton Rouge
James L. Pate, Lafayette
Patrick W. Pendley, Plaquemines
Denise M. Pilie', New Orleans
Hon. Kathleen S. Richey, Baton Rouge
A. Hammond Scott, New Orleans
Stuart H. Smith, New Orleans
Randall A. Smith, New Orleans
Paul A. Strickland, Shreveport
Alberto E. Struck, New Orleans
Jane A. Thomas, Baton Rouge
Richard Upton, Baton Rouge
James A. Van Hook, Jr., Shreveport
K. Todd Wallace, New Orleans
Alan Weinberger, New Orleans
Donald Weir, Jr., Shreveport
Jack K. Whitehead, Jr., Baton Rouge
G. Edward Williams, Jr., Lafayette
W. Luther Wilson, Baton Rouge

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Class of 1986

Lawrence E. Abbott, New Orleans
Hirschel T. Abbott, Jr., New Orleans
James C. Bates, Baton Rouge
Jack C. Benjamin, Sr., New Orleans
David F. Bienvenu, New Orleans
John Blackwell, New Iberia
Wood Brown III, New Orleans
Jack E. Carlisle,Jr., Shreveport
Arthur R. Carmody,Jr., Shreveport
Kenneth M. Carter, New Orleans
Hon. Edith Brown Clement, New Orleans
John C. Combe, Jr., New Orleans
James J. Davidson III, Lafayette
Paul B. Deal, New Orleans
Lawrence E. Donohoe (Ret.), Lafayette
Hon. John J. Erny, Jr., Lockport
Hugh B. Exnicios, Jr., Folsom
Hon. Eldon E. Fallon, New Orleans
A. Remy Fransen, Jr., New Orleans
William C. Gambel, New Orleans
James B. Gardner, Shreveport
Marcel Garsaud, Jr., New Orleans
Howard B. Gist, Jr., Alexandria
Cyrus J. Greco, Baton Rouge
Joe D. Guerriero, Monroe
Orlando N. Hamilton, Jr., Oak Grove
Harry S. Hardin III, New Orleans
Stephen C. Hartel, Jr., Metairie
Thomas M. Hayes III, Monroe
George W. Healy III, New Orleans
Donald A. Hoffman, New Orleans
Campbell C. Hutchinson, New Orleans
Patrick A. Juneau, Jr., Lafayette
Richard F. Knight, Bogalusa
Harvey C. Koch, New Orleans
Jacob D. Landry, Austin
Charles W. Lane III, New Orleans
Robert E. Leake, Jr., New Orleans
Harvey J. Lewis, New Orleans
Michael F. Little, Covington
Judy Perry Martinez, Avondale
Melvin L. Maxwell, Lafayette
John M. McCollam, New Orleans
Timothy J. McNamara, Lafayette
William W. Messersmith III, New Orleans
Albert Mintz, New Orleans
Julian R. Murray, Jr., Metairie
Max Nathan, Jr., New Orleans
Colvin G. Norwood, Jr., New Orleans
Hon. Charles B. Peatross, Shreveport
John Dale Powers, Baton Rouge
Ronald E. Raney, Shreveport
Leon J. Reymond, Jr., New Orleans
Robert Roberts III, Shreveport
Antonio J. Rodriguez, New Orleans
Charles Walter Salley, Shreveport
Daniel Ryan Sartor, Jr., Monroe
Danny G. Shaw, Mandeville
Hon. John F. Simon, Alexandria
H. Paul Simon, New Orleans
Lawrence P. Simon, Jr., Lafayette
Howard E. Sinor, Jr., New Orleans
Vincent J. Sotile, Jr., Donaldsonville
Michael X. St. Martin, Houma
William S. Strain, Baton Rouge
Frank A. Tessier, New Orleans
Gerard F. Thomas, Jr., Natchitoches
Christopher Tompkins, New Orleans
Hon. Jacques L. Wiener, Jr., New Orleans
Charles T. Williams, Jr., Metairie
Phillip A. Wittmann, New Orleans
Bob F. Wright, Lafayette
Thomas J. Wyllie, New Orleans

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