Jack Martzell Professionalism Award

Jack Martzell Professionalism Award
This award is named in honor of the late John R. “Jack” Martzell. Mr. Martzell practiced in New Orleans, Louisiana with the firm of Martzell & Bickford. He served as law clerk to the Hon. J. Skelly Wright, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Mr. Martzell served as Director of the Louisiana Commission on Human Relations, Rights and Responsibilities for six years. He was a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American College of Trial Lawyers, and the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute.  He served as President of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association and as Chairman of the Department of Public Affairs with the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. The John R. “Jack” Martzell Professionalism Award recognizes the attorney who best exemplifies outstanding professionalism in the practice of law.

Prior Recipients:

2022 Dawn Barrios

2021    Eva J. Dossier
2020 Kathryn M. Knight
2019 Richard C. Stanley
2018 Ashley L. Belleau
2017 Judy Y. Barrasso
2016    Irving J. Warshauer
2015    Barry W. Ashe
2014    Wayne Lee
2013    Harry Simms Hardin
2012    John Wilson Reed
2011    Phillip Wittmann
2010    Gerald Meunier
2009    Marian Mayer Berkett and Russ Herman
2008    Julian R. Murray, Jr.

Camille Gravel Public Service & Pro Bono Award

Camille Gravel Public Service & Pro Bono Award
This award is named in honor of the late Camille Gravel, a veteran trial attorney and a champion in the battle for civil rights and equal justice irrespective of financial means. With the avowed intention to have the “ordinary practice of a country lawyer,” Mr. Gravel hung out his shingle in Alexandria in the 1940s. Mr. Gravel’s career paralleled the tumultuous years of the civil rights movement in the South, and his desire to help those in trouble led him to embrace fully the call for equal justice for all races. In 1980, an African American civil rights leader  Alexandria, and a contemporary of Mr. Gravel, wrote the following of him: “I know of no other man in this state who has been more dedicated to the problems of the weak, the oppressed, the down-trodden, the have-nots, and those who are least able to defend themselves than Camille Gravel.” The Camille Gravel Award recognizes an attorney who has done substantial pro bono or public service legal work in keeping with the spirit and values exemplified by Camille Gravel.

Prior Recipients:

2022 Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Saver, LLC

2021    Jee Park
2020    William C. Snowden
2019    Ernest L. Jones
2018    David H. Williams
2017    Mary E. Howell
2016    Dana M. Douglas
2015    Jane L. Johnson
2014    Posthumously to Mark Moreau
2013    Virginia Laughlin Schlueter
2012    Judy Perry Martinez
2011    Christy F. Kane
2010    Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
2009    Lawrence Ernst; John Jerry Glas and Douglas R. Elliott; Richard Duplantier, Jr. and Doris Bobadilla; Avery Pardee, Andrew Lee and Richard Schroeder; Davis S. Bland; Lindsay Larson III; L. Eades Hogue; Joe Norman and Michael Rubenstein; G. William Jarman and Charles McCowan, III; Kim Boyle; Posthumously to William Porteous, III
2009    K. Eric Gisleson and Charles Marshall, III
2008    Mark Surprenant
2007    Orleans Parish Indigent Defenders Board
2006    Paula Kluver Cobb; Nicholas Trenticosta; Prof. William Quigley