LSBA Young Lawyers Division’s 2024-25 Officers, Council Installed The LSBA Young Lawyers Division’s 2024-25 officers and Council were installed June 6 at the LSBA Annual Meeting in Destin, Fla. Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice John L. Weimer administered the oath of office.Kristen D. Amond, an attorney in New Orleans (Kristen Amond, LLC), was installed as 2024-25 YLD chair. Other officers sworn in include: • Chair-Elect Collin R. Melancon, a partner/owner of Mansfield Melancon Injury Lawyers in New Orleans. • Secretary Quinn K. Brown, an associate in the Baton Rouge office of the law firm LaFleur Laborde, LLC. • Immediate Past Chair Senae D. Hall, an assistant district attorney in the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office in Shreveport. Installed as members of the 2024-25 YLD Council were: District 1: Jennifer Gordon Lampton, research attorney for Judge Nakisha Ervin-Knott, 4th Circuit Court of Appeal, Division A, New Orleans; and Christopher J. Sellers, Jr., associate general counsel for Ochsner Health. District 2: Rachal Cox Cassagne, an assistant United States attorney for the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, New Orleans; and Christina K. Guzman, an associate attorney at Jeffrey Hufft, Attorney at Law, LLC, Metairie. District 3: Jared E. Nelson, an associate in the Lafayette office of the law firm Liskow & Lewis, APLC. District 4: Brooke A. Roach, an attorney in The Roach Law Firm, APLC, in Lake Charles. District 5: Brad W. Cranmer, a partner in the Baton Rouge office of the law firm Mansfield, Melancon, Cranmer & Dick, LLC; and Josef P. Ventulan, a staff attorney with the Louisiana State Law Institute in Baton Rouge. District 6: Ashley U. Johnson-Firven, an associate in the Baton Rouge office of the law firm Hammonds, Sills, Adkins, Guice, Noah & Perkins, LLP. District 7: Jana Robinson Tuma, legal counsel of U.S. Operations at Drax, based in Monroe. District 8: Audrius M. Reed, a solo practitioner with Audrius M. Reed, Attorney at Law, LLC, in Shreveport. At-Large Representative: Jasmine C. Cooper, an assistant district attorney for the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office in Shreveport. American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Representative: Joseph T.D. Tran, an associate general counsel for LAMMICO, based in Metairie. Young Lawyer Member/American Bar Association House of Delegates: Taylor B. Ashworth, an associate in the Baton Rouge office of the law firm Kean Miller, LLP. Full bios of the Young Lawyers Division officers and Council members are available online at: https://www.lsba.org/YLD/YLDCouncil.aspx