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.

Jennifer Johnson Karle

Alexandria, 2022
Jennifer Karle is the chief executive officer of Cane River Children’s Services (CRCS), which provides trauma-informed...
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Shelton Jones

Baton Rouge, 2010
Shelton Jones of Baton Rouge co-founded the Cinderella Project, which collects donated dresses and hosts giveaway events...
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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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