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.

Ben Johnson

Shreveport, 2003
Ben Johnson was fundamental in the establishment and administration of several associations and programs providing child...

Dr. Clyde Johnson

Baton Rouge, 2017
Clyde Johnson started his career as a coal miner with only a high school diploma. The days were long, tough and filled w...

Monica Johnson

Monroe, 2002
Monica Johnson describes herself as a person not dying from HIV/AIDS, but a person living with it. Infected since 1984 w...

Jennifer Johnson Karle

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

Shelton Jones

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...