LSBA Board of Governors
House of Delegates Liaison Committee Chair
Mr. Keenan Kirk Kelly
2021-2024
137 Saint Denis St
Natchitoches, LA 71457-4635
Phone: (318) 352-2353
Fax: (318) 352-8918
Keenan K. Kelly has practiced in the Natchitoches firm of Kelly & Townsend, LLC, for 27 years. His primary practice areas are personal injury and criminal defense. He is licensed to practice law in both Louisiana and Texas and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana and the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kelly attended Fort Lewis College from 1984-86 (where he played football) but returned to Northwestern State University to complete his undergraduate degree in 1990. He earned his JD degree in 1993 from Loyola University College of Law. While attending law school, he clerked for the New Orleans law firm of Martzell & Bickford.
He is a current member of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Nominating Committee and is beginning his term as chair of the LSBA’s House of Delegates Liaison Committee, previously serving as a committee member. He has served in the House of Delegates, representing the 10th Judicial District, since 2002. He chaired the LSBA’s Legislation Committee from 2015-20.
Kelly has served as the vice president of the Natchitoches Parish Bar Association since 1996. He is married to Jennifer Anderson Kelly and has two children.