2024 FBA Chapter Award Winners

The New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association would like to congratulate our Chapter Award Recipients.  We are so very fortunate to have so many talented attorneys in our Chapter who give so much to the profession and the community.

2024 Chapter Award Recipients

President’s Award

2024 Chloé M. Chetta - Awarded the President's Award which recognizes demonstrated leadership in and outstanding service to the legal profession and to the larger community.

President’s Award
Awarded the President's Award which recognizes demonstrated leadership in and outstanding service to the legal profession and to the larger community.

Prior Recipients:

2023. Alysson Mills
2022 Scott Sternberg
2021    Posthumously to S. Gene Fendler 2020    José R. Cot
2019    Brian J. Capitelli
2018    Omar K. Mason, Annie G. McBride, and Paul M. Sterbcow
2017    Mark C. Surprenant
2016    Christopher K. Ralston
2015    Patricia A. Krebs
2014    Kara Van de Carr
2013    Marshall Hevron
2012    Thomas Fierke
2011    Kim Boyle
2010    Aimee Quirk
2009    Paul Pastorek
2008    Andy Lee
2007    Walter Leger, Jr.

Professionalism Award

2024 Thomas M. Flanagan Awarded the Professionalism Award which honors the late John R. "Jack" Martzell. 

2024 Sean P. Brady (Presented Posthumously) - Awarded the Professionalism Award which honors the late John R. "Jack" Martzell. 

Jack Martzell Professionalism Award Awarded the Professionalism Award which honors the late John R. "Jack" Martzell.  The award recognizes an attorney(s) who best exemplifies outstanding professionalism in the practice of law.

Prior Recipients:

2023 R. Patrick Vance
2022 Dawn Barrios
2021    Eva J. Dossier
2020 Kathryn M. Knight
2019 Richard C. Stanley
2018 Ashley L. Belleau
2017 Judy Y. Barrasso
2016    Irving J. Warshauer
2015    Barry W. Ashe
2014    Wayne Lee
2013    Harry Simms Hardin
2012    John Wilson Reed
2011    Phillip Wittmann
2010    Gerald Meunier
2009    Marian Mayer Berkett and Russ Herman
2008    Julian R. Murray, Jr.

Public Service Award

2023 Stephen J. Haedicke - Awarded the Public Service Award which honors the late Camille Gravel

Camille Gravel Public Service & Pro Bono Award
This award is named in honor of the late Camille Gravel, a veteran trial attorney and a champion in the battle for civil rights and equal justice irrespective of financial means. With the avowed intention to have the “ordinary practice of a country lawyer,” Mr. Gravel hung out his shingle in Alexandria in the 1940s. Mr. Gravel’s career paralleled the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement in the South, and his desire to help those in trouble led him to embrace fully the call for equal justice for all races. In 1980, an African American civil rights leader  Alexandria, and a contemporary of Mr. Gravel, wrote the following of him: “I know of no other man in this state who has been more dedicated to the problems of the weak, the oppressed, the down-trodden, the have-nots, and those who are least able to defend themselves than Camille Gravel.” The Camille Gravel Award recognizes an attorney who has done substantial pro bono or public service legal work in keeping with the spirit and values exemplified by Camille Gravel.

Prior Recipients:

2023. Claude J. Kelly, III
2022 Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Saver, LLC
2021    Jee Park
2020    William C. Snowden
2019    Ernest L. Jones
2018    David H. Williams
2017    Mary E. Howell
2016    Dana M. Douglas
2015    Jane L. Johnson
2014    Posthumously to Mark Moreau
2013    Virginia Laughlin Schlueter
2012    Judy Perry Martinez
2011    Christy F. Kane
2010    Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
2009    Lawrence Ernst; John Jerry Glas and Douglas R. Elliott; Richard Duplantier, Jr. and Doris Bobadilla; Avery Pardee, Andrew Lee and Richard Schroeder; Davis S. Bland; Lindsay Larson III; L. Eades Hogue; Joe Norman and Michael Rubenstein; G. William Jarman and Charles McCowan, III; Kim Boyle; Posthumously to William Porteous, III
2009    K. Eric Gisleson and Charles Marshall, III
2008    Mark Surprenant
2007    Orleans Parish Indigent Defenders Board
2006    Paula Kluver Cobb; Nicholas Trenticosta; Prof. William Quigley