College of Law Visiting Committee

The College of Law Visiting Committee is designed to bring different perspectives to the college and to inform the community of the varied academic and professional activities of the law school. The committee, through its chairman, reports to the university president. The members of the committee are asked to assist in creating a climate favorable to voluntary support for the university.

Role of the Visiting Committee

  • Encouraged to help raise funds and to contribute during the term of their membership, on a yearly basis, to support the activities of the College of Law.
  • Review the policies and programs of the college within the framework of the objectives set by the university president.
  • Offer counsel to the deans, faculty, and university president for more effective implementation of the objectives of the college.

Committee Members

Chair: Mary H. Becnel, J.D.’80
Judge, 40th Judicial District Court

Vice Chair: Allain F. Hardin, ’71, J.D.’79
Fransen & Hardin

Secretary: Elwood F. Cahill, J.D.’80
Sher, Garner, Cahill, Richter, Klein, LLC

Officers’ terms ends 2012

Morris Bart, III, J.D.’78
Morris Bart, PLC

Herman L. Bastian, Jr., J.D.'74
Bastian & Associates

Allan Berger, J.D.’74
Allan Berger & Associates

David F. Bienvenu, J.D.'80
Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP

Paul A. Bonin, Judge, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, J.D.'76

Philip S. Brooks, J.D.’60
Retired

Harold A. Buchler, Jr. J.D.’76
Buchler & Buchler

Karl J. Connor, J.D.’94
BP America, Inc.

Timothy S. Cragin, J.D.’93
Entergy Corporation

Michael G. Crow, ’68, ’70, J.D.’73
Chehardy, Sherman, Ellis, Breslin, Murray & Recile

Robert J. David, J.D.’69
Gainsburgh, Benjamin, David, Meunier & Warshauer

Clancy J. DuBos, III, J.D.’93
Gambit Weekly

Frank C. Dudenhefer, J.D.’70
Cummings, Cummings & Dudenhefer

Mary Dumestre, J.D.'88 
Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, LLC

Brett M. Dupuy, J.D.’92
Brett M. Dupuy, APLC

Donna D. Fraiche, J.D.’75
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

Celeste A. Gauthier, J.D.’95
Gauthier, Houghtaling & Williams

Gary G. Hebert, M.B.A.’89, J.D.’89
McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC

Warren Horn ’84, J.D.’84
Heller, Draper, Hayden, Patrick & Horn

Morton H. Katz, J.D.’69
Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar

Nancy Amato Konrad, ’62, J.D.’65
Judge, Jefferson Parish Juvenile Court

Robert A. Kutcher, J.D.’75
Chopin, Wagar, Cole, Richard, Reboul & Kutcher

Madeleine M. Landrieu-Sensenbrenner, J.D.’87
Judge, Civil District Court Division E

Kelly McNeil Legier, ’89, J.D.’93
Director of Member Outreach & Diversity, LSBA

M. Lauren Lemmon, J.D.’90
Judge, 29th Judicial District, Division D

Philip D. Lorio, III, ’69, J.D.’74
Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles

E. Ralph Lupin, M.D., J.D.’90
Middleberg, Riddle & Gianna

Thomas J. Lutkewitte, ’70, J.D.’73
Favret, Demarest, Russo & Lutkewitte

Michael A. McGlone, ’72, J.D.’75
Kean Miller Hawthorne D'Armond McGowan & Jarman

Kim Moore, ’84, J.D.’87
Irwin, Fritchie, Urquhart & Moore

Edwin R. Murray, ’82, J.D.’85
Murray, Darnell & Associates, LLC; Louisiana State Senate

Suzanne Jones Myers, J.D.'80
Young, Richard & Myers, LLC

Kern A. Reese, J.D.’77
Judge, Civil District Court, Division “L” – Section 6

Lee C. Reid, ’96, J.D.’99
Adams & Reese, LLP

Charles L. Rice, Jr., J.D.’95
Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, LLC

Sherif K. Sakla, M.D., J.D.’96
Sakla Law Firm

John R. Sarpy, J.D.’80
Whitewater Gardens (Sunset, S.C.)

Ronald Sholes, J.D.’84
Adams & Reese, LLP

Louis J. St. Martin, J.D.’75
Law Office of Louis St. Martin (Houma, La.)

Ernest E. Svenson, J.D.’85
Svenson Law

Frank J. Varela, J.D.’55
Pan American Insurance Company

P. Donald White, Jr., J.D.’76
White Companies (Alexandria, La.)

Conrad S. P. Williams, III, ’75, J.D.’84
St. Martin, Williams & Bourque (Houma, La.)