Past Honorees

The Angel Award Database is an archive of all those who have received the award since its inception in 1995. Click a year below to learn about our Angels.

James Joseph

Baton Rouge, 2005
“Coach” Joseph has been working with children for more than 30 years. Through his James Joseph School of Boxing, he ...
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Melissa Juneau

Baton Rouge, 2019
Melissa has been working for the last 30 years as a speech-language pathologist, and has made her career working with yo...
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Ann Keene

Monroe, 2012
Ann Keene of Tallulah, who has worked with 4-H in Louisiana since she was a seventh grader in 1953. In her decades of st...
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K.C. Kilpatrick

Shreveport, 2019
As a foster mother, K.C. experienced first-hand the terrible reality of young people entering their first night in foste...
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Peggy Kirby

Monroe, 2017
Peggy Kirby describes herself as a nurse by trade and a foster parent by choice. Having a deep love for children, she kn...
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Elvin Kramer

New Orleans, 1997
In 1997, Elvin Kramer was a 75-year-old advocate of CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates). He made it his life’s mi...
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Paula LaCour

New Orleans, 2013
LaCour is vice president of the Down Syndrome Association of Greater New Orleans and a fierce advocate for the inclusion...
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Leslie Lacy

Baton Rouge, 2022
Before founding Fostering Hope Louisiana, Leslie Lacy was an attorney with the Children’s Advocacy Program at Mental H...
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Dustin LaFont

Baton Rouge, 2015
Dustin LaFont founded Front Yard Bikes in Baton Rouge in 2010. Front Yard Bikes is a program that teaches young children...
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Charles Landreneau

Baton Rouge, 2013
Landreneau and his wife Kary are working with trained professionals at Healing Place Serve and the Louisiana Department ...
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Geri Christ Landry

Lake Charles, 1996
Geri Christ Landry has been a longtime autism advocate and was founder of the Southwest Louisiana Autism Chapter. Back i...
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Laura Landry

Baton Rouge, 2014
Blue Cross vice president of IT integrated services Laura Landry is the 2014 Blue Angel. Landry serves on the board of t...
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