The Horn Blower Award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in assisting the Louisiana Bar Foundation in advancing an initiative, project or program.
2024 Horn Blower Award
Lagniappe Law Lab
The 2024 Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) Horn Blower Award was given to the Lagniappe Law Lab in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in promoting the mission to advance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system, and advance the reality of equal justice under the law by 2023-24 LBF President Deidre Deculus Robert. Lagniappe Law Lab Executive Director, Amanda Brown accepted the award.
2023 Horn Blower Award
Louisiana Supreme Court
The 2023 Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) Horn Blower Award was given to the Louisiana Supreme Court in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in promoting the mission to advance the legal profession, increase public understanding of the legal system, and advance the reality of equal justice under the law by 2022-23 LBF President Alan G. Brackett. Chief Justice John L. Weimer, Justice Piper D. Griffin, and Justice James T. Genovese accepted the award on behalf of the court.
The award presentation was during the 37th Annual Fellows Gala at the National World War II Museum New Orleans on Friday, April 21. The gala is the LBF’s largest annual fundraiser and is in honor of the 2022 honorees:
Distinguished Jurist Hon. Richard T. Haik, Sr. (Ret.), U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana
Distinguished Attorney Leo C. Hamilton, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P.
Distinguished Professor Andrea Beauchamp Carroll, LSU Paul M. Hebert School of Law
Calogero Justice Award Hon. Ivan L. R. Lemelle, U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Louisiana
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2022-23 President Alan Brackett, presents the Horn Blower Award to the Louisiana Supreme Court at the LBF 37th Annual Gala. Pictured L-R: Chief Justice John Weimer, Alan Brackett, Justice Piper Griffin, and Justice James Genovese. (Photo by Patrick Niddrie)
2022 Horn Blower Award
Hon. Guy Bradberry
The 2022 Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) Horn Blower Award was given to Hon. Guy Bradberry in recognition of his outstanding support and leadership in assisting the LBF in advancing an initiative, project from 2021-22 LBF President Christopher K. Ralston.
Judge Bradberry is with the 14th Judicial District Court, Division C, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He has been a LBF Fellow since 2002 and began serving as a board member in 2014. Judge Bradberry has served on the Kids’ Chance Committee, and as a member and chair of the Southwest Community Partnership Panel since 2014. He has also served as a member of the development committee since 2019 and has served as chair of the membership subcommittee for the past two years, focusing on increasing LBF membership and outreach.
2014 Horn Blower Award
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
The Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) awarded the Baton Rouge Area Foundation (BRAF) the prestigious Horn Blower Award on May 1, 2015 during the LBF Annual Fellows Membership Meeting at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The Horn Blower award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in advancing a shared LBF initiative, project or program. The award is given to the BRAF in recognition of leadership and training on governance matters for the LBF and our grantees, the providers of free civil legal aid.
2013 Horn Blower Award
Office of the Louisiana Attorney General Public Protection Division
LBF awarded the Office of the Louisiana Attorney General Public Protection Division the prestigious Horn Blower Award on April 11, 2014 during the LBF Annual Fellows Membership Meeting at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans. The Horn Blower award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in advancing an LBF initiative, project or program. The Office of the Louisiana Attorney General Public Protection Division received the award in recognition of assistance, protections and relief provided to Louisiana citizens affected by the National Mortgage Servicing Settlement. The Louisiana Bar Foundation began working with the Office of the Attorney General last May as Louisiana joined 49 other states in a $25 billion joint state-federal mortgage servicing settlement with the nation’s five largest mortgage services.
2012 Horn Blower Award
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation
Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) received the Horn Blower Award at the Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) Annual Fellows Membership Meeting during their Annual Assembly. The Horn Blower award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in advancing an LBF initiative, project or program. This year’s Horn Blower award went to the LWCC as a leading partner in the Kids’ Chance Scholarship Program. The LWCC Kids’ Chance Invitational Golf Tournament was first held in 2003 to benefit Kids’ Chance. This year, the tournament raised $38,000. Since 2003, LWCC has raised $267,000 for Kids’ Chance.
2011 Horn Blower Award
Office of the Judicial Administrator
The Louisiana Bar Foundation awarded the Office of the Judicial Administrator with the Horn Blower Award in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in implementing the Child Advocacy Program for the State of Louisiana. This award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in assisting the Louisiana Bar Foundation in advancing an initiative, project or program.
2009 Horn Blower Award
Kendall Vick Public Law Foundation
The Louisiana Bar Foundation awarded the Kendall Vick Public Law Foundation with the Horn Blower Award in recognition of outstanding support and leadership encouraging public interest law careers. This award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in assisting the Louisiana Bar Foundation in advancing an initiative, project or program.
Established in 1995, the Kendall Vick Public Law Foundation was organized to encourage law students and attorneys to practice law in the public sector. Kendall Vick has shown their support of the LBF’s initiatives to assist attorneys who wish to pursue and remain in public legal service careers by generously supporting the LBF’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program and the Public Interest Attorney and Staff Supplemental Pay program.
2008 Horn Blower Award
Tim Averill
The Horn Blower Award is given to a partner organization in recognition of outstanding support and leadership in assisting the Louisiana Bar Foundation in advancing an initiative, project or program. This year’s Horn Blower Award goes to Tim Averill, General Counsel for the Louisiana Supreme Court.
2006 Horn Blower Award
Ann Scarle
The LBF awarded Ann Scarle with the 2006 Horn Blower Award in recognition for her outstanding leadership, support and immediate response to legal community recovery and rebuilding efforts. The award was presented by LBF President Donna D. Fraiche on June 8, at the LBF Annual Fellows Meeting in Sandestin, Florida.
Ann, Executive Director of the Baton Rouge Bar Association since 1991 received her B.S. degree from Louisiana State University. She is a graduate of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce Leadership Baton Rouge program. Scarle is currently serving her third term as Local Bar Delegate to the National Association of Bar Executives Board of Directors. She has served in the following leadership positions with NABE: Public Service Committee, CLE Section (former chair), and Communications Section (1998 conference chair). In addition, she is a member of the following organizations: Baton Rouge Network, LSU Paralegal School Advisory Board, Junior League of Baton Rouge, and a former board member of the Battered Women’s Shelter, Westminster Civic Association, and the Louisiana Center for Law Related Education.
Marta-Ann Schnabel
The LBF awarded Marta-Ann Schnabel with the 2006 Hornblower Award in recognition for her outstanding leadership, support and immediate response to legal community recovery and rebuilding efforts. The award was presented by LBF President Donna D. Fraiche on June 8, at the LBF Annual Fellows Meeting in Sandestin, Florida.Marta, incoming president of the Louisiana State Bar Association, has been tooting the horn of the LBF by bringing her civic minded actions full circle by helping to provide free disaster-related legal services for Louisiana residents.Marta is a shareholder in the New Orleans firm of O’Bryon & Schnabel, P.L.C. She received a BA degree, honours, in 1978 from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and her JD degree in 1981 from Loyola University Law School. She was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1981.Marta served as co-chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) Access to Justice Committee and is a member of the Committee on Rules of Professional Conduct and the Ethics Advisory Service Committee. She has served as LSBA president-elect and secretary. She received the LSBA President’s Award in 1998 and 2004.
She is a member of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel and the New Orleans Bar Association. She is a recipient of the Loyola Law School Gillis Long Public Service Award.
2004 Horn Blower Award
Garner J. “Gary” Knoepfler, Jr., CPCU
The Louisiana Bar Foundation (LBF) awarded Garner J. “Gary” Knoepfler, Jr., CPCU, it’s Hornblower Award at its Annual Breakfast Meeting, Thursday, June 10 in Sandestin, Florida. Gary has been instrumental in bringing Kids’ Chance to Louisiana. Kids’ Chance is a scholarship program designed to help students of permanently or catastrophically injured or deceased workers to complete their education.
Gary received this award because he has been tooting the horn of the LBF and bringing their civic minded actions full circle by encouraging their partnership with Kids’ Chance.
Gary is the Louisiana Branch Supervisor for Reimbursement Consultants, Inc. firm which specializes in identifying and processing Second Injury Fund claims for insurance carriers and insured or self-insured empoyers. Since 1990, Gary’s office has handled over 4,000 Second Injury Fund claims.
In addition to serving as the Co-Chair of the Kids’ Chance Committee, Gary is also a member of the Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers Advisory Board. He is a native of New Orleans and currently lives in Metairie with his wife, Sherri.
