Louisville Bar Foundation

12/12/2025

🌟 We are honored to announce that Garry Adams has been recognized as a Fellow of the Louisville Bar Foundation (LBF).

This program recognizes individuals who demonstrate their commitment to the LBF’s mission through a generous personal gift.

Without the essential support of our donors, the LBF would not have been able to award more than $135,00 in grants to local non-profits in 2025.

Please visit www.loubar.org for more information on how you can support this critical work.

08/05/2025

Congrats to John Young! 🌟

To learn more about the LBF Fellows Program and how you may become an LBF Fellow, visit the link below or contact the Foundation Director, Jeff Been, at [email protected] or (502) 292-6734.
To become a Fellow: https://www.loubar.org/foundation-fellows-program/

03/07/2025

🎉 A huge thank you to everyone who made the LBF Raffle a great success last night! While every ticket buyer was a winner for supporting the Foundation’s grantmaking efforts and investing in justice, our raffle prize winners were:

🏆 Grand Prize – Savannah Stay: Bruce Brightwell
🥃 Second Prize – Tub of Bourbon: Janet Jakubowicz

Congrats to our winners, and thanks to all for your generous support! 🙌

02/27/2025

04/26/2024

Thanks to everyone who made the LBF Raffle such a great success last night. Of course, everyone who bought a ticket was a winner because they helped support the Foundation’s grantmaking activities and invested in justice, but the winners of the three raffle prizes were:

Grand Prize – Greenbrier Resort – Theresa Canaday
Second Prize – Staycation in NuLu – Ronnie Gilbert
Third Prize – Tub of Bourbon – Alex White

Congratulations to the raffle drawing winners and thanks to all for supporting the Foundation’s grantmaking activities!

04/16/2024

Purchase your raffle tickets below at the link or next week at the Louisville Bar Association's 2024 Bench and Bar Social!

03/28/2024

Louisville Bar Foundation Raffle!

We're less than a month away from the LBA Bench & Bar Social 2024! In the coming weeks, we'll be highlighting the raffle prizes you could win by purchasing a $25 ticket to support the Louisville Bar Foundation.

Our 3rd place prize is for our bourbon lovers. The person holding the winning raffle ticket for this prize will receive our signature “barrelful of brew,” and a potential stash of cash. The winner will haul away a tub containing a selection of Kentucky’s best bourbons. Invite friends over and create your own flights using this tub of exotic and exquisite bourbons. And, while you’re sipping, sort through the pile of Kentucky scratch-off lotto tickets you’ve won and see how much cash is yours!

Click the link below to purchase raffle tickets. You can also purchase tickets through an LBF board member or click below. For questions, contact LBF Executive Director, Jeff Been, at 292-6734, or [email protected]. Tickets will also be available for purchase at the Bench & Bar Social.

Purch your raffle tickets here: https://bit.ly/3PHEXlo

Register for this year's Bench & Bar Social at the NEW Bar Center here: https://bit.ly/4c8ODyS

02/13/2024

Do you know a local nonprofit group that does good work and needs funding? The Louisville Bar Foundation accepts grant applications for projects that fulfill one or more of the following objectives:
∙ Projects that improve access to the legal system by persons of limited financial means, and if possible, produce a tangible product that can be distributed to the public;
∙ Projects that promote better access to legal information and improved perception of the justice system by minorities;
∙ Projects that improve the operation of, and public confidence in, the Jefferson County courts;
∙ Projects that provide public education about our legal system and promote a positive image of the legal profession.

The LBF distributed over $165,000 in grants during 2023. The typical grant has been in the $2,500 to $12,000 range in recent years. Funds will not be awarded for tickets or sponsorships of special events, for capital construction or endowment campaigns. The upcoming grant application deadline is April 12. Another grant application cycle may occur in October depending upon funds available.

Grant materials are available on the Foundation’s website. For more information and to download a grant application, visit bit.ly/2mfx8qX or, contact the Foundation director, Jeff Been, by phone at 435-8715 or by email at [email protected].

02/08/2024

Jefferson Coulter honored as a Fellow of the LBF

Jefferson Coulter has been recognized as a Fellow of the Louisville Bar Foundation. The LBF Fellows Program recognizes individuals who have achieved success in the legal profession and whose generous personal gifts have supported the law-related mission of the Louisville Bar Foundation.

Coulter serves as the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Society, a non-profit law firm that serves fifteen Kentucky counties from offices in Shelbyville and Louisville. The Society provides free, civil legal aid to low-income people in 15 Kentucky counties. Originally from Charleston, West Virginia, Coulter is a graduate of West Virginia University with a B.A. in International Relations, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Eastern Washington University, and a Juris Doctor from Gonzaga University School of Law. Coulter has served at all levels of legal services work, including staff attorney, advocacy, managing attorney, and Executive Director, as well as in private and in-house practice.

To learn more about the LBF Fellows Program and how you may become one of the LBF Fellows, visit the link below or contact the Foundation Director, Jeff Been, at [email protected] or (502) 292-6734. https://bit.ly/3BEmBcF

02/05/2024

LBF Elects Officers for 2024

Charles H. Stopher has been elected President of the Louisville Bar Foundation for 2024. Stopher is a partner with Boehl, Stopher & Graves. He focuses on civil trial work. He handles the defense of claims alleging personal injury, products liability, insurance bad faith, employment discrimination, professional liability and breach of contract. He also works on complex litigation managing large-scale discovery and electronic discovery. Stopher worked as a trial attorney at the Louisville Metro Public Defender from 2006 to 2010. He clerked for Judge John G. Heyburn II, U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky immediately following law school. In addition to his legal practice, Stopher is engaged in numerous civic and charitable causes. He has served the board of Summerbridge Louisville since 2005 and the LBF board of the LBF since 2017.

Other LBF Officers for 2024 include: Sara V. Judd, President-Elect; Gregory T. Dutton, Vice President and Treasurer; Joseph C. Ventura, Secretary; Gretchen C. Avery, Past President. In addition, three individuals will join the LBF Board of Directors for three-year terms: Jennifer M. Barbour, Jeffrey S. Moad, and Sherry L. Hurley.

01/31/2024

Your gift made a difference in 2023 when the LBF awarded $10,000 to Access Justice for its Expungement Clinics. Since 2014, Access Justice has provided free legal services through weekly or monthly clinics to low-income individuals and families throughout metro Louisville. With a network of over forty volunteer attorneys and an office in the Portland neighborhood, Access Justice’s legal clinics educate participants on how to resolve a broad range of legal problems. LBF’s grant will provide funds to allow Access Justice to reach and serve individuals in need of expungements.