Kim M. Boyle, Life Fellow, was named as the recipient of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award winner by the Greater New Orleans Louis A. Martinet Legal Society. The award was presented to her at the Martinet Society’s annual Jazz Brunch & Scholarship Gala on Sept. 28.
The Martinet Society was established by Black lawyers during the Jim Crow era, when attorneys of color were not allowed to fully participate in the legal profession. The society’s highest honor is for those who demonstrate a lifetime of service to the legal profession and Martinet’s mission of advancing legal scholarship, justice, ethics, and the law in Louisiana.
Boyle is currently the vice-managing partner of Phelps Dunbar LLP’s New Orleans office, where her practice focuses on labor and employment law, specifically on civil rights, constitutional law, commercial, tort and general litigation issues, helping businesses promote inclusion and avoid discriminatory practices. She currently is on the Board of Tulane University and previously served as the first female African American President of the Louisiana State Bar Association and as the first African American President of the New Orleans Bar Association.
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