LSBA Board of Governors
Seventh Board District
Mr. Clarence A Martin III
2015-2018
1101 Royal Ave Ste A
Monroe, LA 71201-5601
Phone: (318) 388-4700
Fax: (318) 388-4736
C.A. (Hap) Martin III is a member in the Monroe firm of Shotwell, Brown & Sperry, A.P.L.C. He received a BS degree in civil engineering in 1977 from Louisiana Tech University and his JD degree in 1980 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1980.
Hap is a former member of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) House of Delegates. He serves on the Governing Council of the LSBA’s Insurance, Tort, Workers’ Compensation and Admiralty Law Section and is a member of the LSBA’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Section.
He is a member of the American Arbitration Association, serving on the Commercial Arbitration Panel and the Construction Arbitration Panel. He also is a master emeritus of the Fred Fudickar Inn of Court.
In his community, he is a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church and has held several leadership positions in his denomination on the local, district and conference levels. He also has volunteered with the Louisiana Purchase Council of the Boy Scouts of America and with several youth sports organizations.
Hap and his wife, Diane Caraway Martin, have been married for 38 years and are the parents of two children.