LBA Executive Director

11/13/2025

We’re so ready to welcome all our members, guests, friends and honorees to the 2025 Member Appreciation and Annual Awards Luncheon! A big thanks to our friends at for the beautiful venue and fantastic food. And we’re thrilled to welcome our vendor fair participants, including , , , , Prosource and Unified Technologies.

10/18/2025

09/07/2025

We’re having a ball celebrating the LBA’s 125th anniversary at Goodbounce! It’s a perfect day — come join us!

10/15/2024

We talk a lot at the Louisville Bar Association about how our members are more than just their profession, so it always makes me happy to see one of our folks “in the wild.” This weekend, I had the good luck to attend the Apron Inc. “10 Taste Salute” in honor of Chef Anoosh Shariat, and look who was the presenting sponsor — our friends Jason Vaughn and Jessica Smith from Vaughn & Smith, PLLC! Jason has been a longtime APRON supporter, and he and Jessica were the lead sponsors for the LBA’s recent networking event for small- and mid-size firms and students from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. Thanks to you both for all you do for our legal AND hospitality communities!

10/01/2024

WOW — what a fantastic turnout at our first ever Student-Firm Networking event at the Bar Center! We’re so thankful for our partnership with University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law that made this great evening possible. And a huge thanks to all the Louisville Bar Association members and firms who are here to meet these talented students. If we want to keep these future attorneys here to grow our local legal community, events like these are critical — more to come!

09/11/2024

After our full renovation of the Louisville Bar Center, we wanted to recognize the volunteer leaders and staff — past and present — who made this historic project possible. Now this hard-working team will always be remembered in our members’ space!



Louisville Bar Association

05/09/2024

Getting ready to kick off our first community event at the new Louisville Bar Association Bar Center! We’re welcoming the Kentucky Women in Commercial Real Estate chapter to a panel discussion about our new renovations, with our friends from Schaefer Construction, ID+A and Rockerbuilt. We can’t wait to share our space with them!

05/08/2024

Ok, ok — I admit, I’m probably one of many Kentucky attorneys who are a *wee* bit behind on their CLEs for this year. Luckily, the has me covered!

Today I learned about moral injuries from Robyn Smith, courtesy of the LBA Health and Wellness Committee. What an interesting way to look at the most difficult aspects of working in the law — when it appears in our On-demand CLE library, I highly recommend you check it out!

03/29/2024

Thank you to my friend and colleague Jefferson Coulter at the Legal Aid Society for inviting me to join him at a live taping of the Access Louisville podcast. I loved seeing and hearing from my old friend, former Mayor Jerry Abramson, and Christina Lee Brown, of the .enviromeinstitute and many other local philanthropic endeavors. Also ran into my friend Chad Carlton from . It was a room full of people on a singular mission — make Louisville the best city it can be! You can count the in on that mission!

03/07/2024

Let the games begin!
What a fantastic turnout for tonight’s Public Outreach Committee’s trivia night at . Our hard-working committee leadership, Sarah McKenna and Scott Burroughs, brought out a HUGE crowd in support of the Legal Food Frenzy. A big thanks to our quizmaster, Judge Chauvin, and our excellent LBA team who pulled it all together!

02/27/2024

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee’s panel discussion and Trailblazer Award presentation is underway! We are honored to hear from Kentucky Court of Appeals Judge Pamela Goodwine, Ret. Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals Denise Clayton and Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Jessica Green, in a discussion moderated by our Committee Chair, Michelle Duncan. Looking forward to the presentation of the Justice William McAnulty Trailblazer Award to LBA member Demetrius Holloway. It’s a fantastic day to celebrate these honored members of our legal community! And thanks to our friends at Dinsmore for hosting us!