LSBA Board of Governors

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C.A. (Hap) Martin III is a member in the Monroe firm of Shotwell, Brown & Sperry, APLC. 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. He has been AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell for more than 30 years.

Martin served as the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) secretary and editor-in-chief of the Louisiana Bar Journal from 2021-23. He served as the Seventh District representative on the LSBA’s Board of Governors from 2015-18 and on the board of the Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program from 2018-22. He currently serves on the Louisiana Bar Journal Editorial Board, the LSBA’s Bar Governance Committee, the Mandatory CLE Committee and on the Governing Council of the Insurance, Tort, Workers’ Compensation and Admiralty Law Section (former chair). He is a former member of the LSBA’s House of Delegates from the Fourth Judicial District. He is a Master Emeritus of the Fred Fudickar American Inn of Court.

In his community, he is a lifelong Methodist and has held numerous leadership positions in his denomination on the local, district and conference levels. He served for many years as legal counsel volunteer with the Louisiana Purchase Council of the Boy Scouts of America (and its predecessor) and has coached teams in several youth sports organizations.

Martin and his wife, Diane Caraway Martin, have been married for 47 years and they have two sons and four grandchildren.