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LSBA Young Lawyers Division’s 2016-17 Officers and Council Installed


The officers and council members were installed June 8, in conjunction with the LSBA’s Annual Meeting in Destin, Fla.

Scotty E. Chabert, Jr. of Baton Rouge was installed as 2016-17 YLD chair by Judge Guy P. Holdridge, 23rd Judicial District Court, Gonzales. Chabert is an assistant district attorney for the 18th Judicial District and a partner in the Baton Rouge firm of Saunders & Chabert.

Also sworn in as officers were Chair-Elect Bradley J. Tate, tax manager for Carr, Riggs & Ingram, L.L.C., in Metairie (he will assume the chair’s position in 2017-18); Secretary Dylan T. Thriffiley, a compliance director for Ochsner Health System in New Orleans; and Immediate Past Chair Erin O. Braud, staff counsel for GuideOne Insurance Co. in New Orleans.

Judge Holdridge also installed members of the 2016-17 YLD Council.

District 1: Scott L. Sternberg, an attorney in the New Orleans office of Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer, L.L.C.; and Cristin F. Bordelon, an associate in the New Orleans office of Leake & Andersson, L.L.P.

District 2: Jeffrey D. Hufft, an associate with Colvin Law Firm, A.P.L.C., in Gretna; and Shayna B. Morvant, managing partner of the Gretna firm of Beevers & Beevers, L.L.P.

District 3: Lauren L. Gardner, an associate in the Onebane Law Firm in Lafayette.

District 4: Adam P. Johnson, an attorney in the Lake Charles firm of Johnson & Vercher, L.L.C.

District 5: Carrie L. Jones, a partner in the Baton Rouge firm of Shows, Cali & Walsh, L.L.P.; and Kristi W. Richard, a senior associate in the Baton Rouge office of McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., and an adjunct instructor of business law and sports law at Louisiana State University.

District 6: Christie C. Wood, an associate in the firm of Faircloth Melton & Keiser, L.L.C., in Alexandria.

District 7: Ethan A. Hunt, an associate in the firm of Dean Morris, L.L.C., in Monroe.

District 8: Allison C. Foster, an associate in the Shreveport firm of Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, A.P.L.C.

At-Large Representative: Kellen J. Mathews, an associate in the litigation practice group in the Baton Rouge office of Adams and Reese, L.L.P.

American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Representative: Graham H. Ryan, a business litigation associate in the New Orleans office of Jones Walker LLP.

Young Lawyer Member/American Bar Association House of Delegates: Kristen L. Burge, an associate in the firm of Beahm & Green in New Orleans.


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