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mittee), the Legal Services for Persons with Disabilities P.O. Box 3524, Lafayette, LA 70502
Committee and the Ethics Advisory Committee. She also (337)233-2323 • fax (337)233-2353
has been a member of the Louisiana Bar Journal’s Edito- email: blake@broussard-david.com
rial Board for several years. website: www.broussard-david.com
She has presented programs nationally on cyber risk
insurance, diversity and the Innocence Project. State- Jeffrey A. Riggs
wide, she has presented programs on cyber risk, the val- At-Large Member
ue of multicultural organizations, Louisiana Vocational Jeffrey A. Riggs is a partner in the Lafayette office of
Rehabilitation Services, the value of a written contract, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP. He received his
diversity, and ethics and professionalism. She has volun- Blake R. David BS degree in 1983 from Indiana University and his JD
teered with the MDA Telethon Executive Lock-up, the degree in 1986 from Indiana University School of Law
Pro Bono Project, the Louisiana Center for Law and Civ- (Indiana Law Review; Dean Frandsen Award; Moot
ic Education’s “We the People” competitions, the Law- Court Award). He was admitted to practice in Louisiana
yers in Libraries Program, the New Orleans Teen Court, in 1986 and in Texas in 2005.
the Baton Rouge Bar Foundation, and other community Riggs served in the Louisiana State Bar Association’s
organizations in the state and across the nation. House of Delegates (15th Judicial District) for several
617 North Third St., 6th Flr. years and was a member of the House of Delegates Li-
Baton Rouge, LA 70804 aison Committee in 2007-08, 2010-13 and 2017-20. He
(225)219-2318 is a member of the Client Assistance Fund Committee
email: adrejia.swafford@la.gov and the Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee.
Jeffrey A. Riggs He is a member of the Lafayette Bar Association,
Blake R. David the Duhe American Inn of Court, the Federal Bar Asso-
At-Large Member ciation and the Acadiana Society for Human Resource
Blake R. David is a founding partner of the Lafayette Management.
firm of Broussard & David, LLC. He received a BA de- Riggs and his wife, Colin Neblett Riggs, have been
gree in 1997 from Louisiana State University and his JD married for 33 years. He is the father of four children.
degree in 2001 from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Ste. 300, 100 E. Vermilion Blvd.
He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 2001. Prior to Lafayette, LA 70501-6939
litigating, he worked as a registered lobbyist with Haynie (337)326-5777 • fax (337)504-3341
& Associates in Baton Rouge. email: jeff.riggs@lewisbrisbois.com
David represented the Third District on the Louisi- website: www.lewisbrisbois.com
ana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Board of Governors John M. Church
from 2014-17 and served on the LSBA’s Nominating John M. Church
Committee. He was the recipient of the LSBA Young Faculty, Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert
Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award Law Center
in 2009. John M. Church is an associate professor of law at
He is board-certified by the National Board of Trial Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
Advocacy in civil trial advocacy. He also is an advocate He received a BS degree in 1983 from Central Michi-
in the American Board of Trial Advocates. Annually, he gan University, an MS degree in economics in 1985
teaches trial advocacy at the LSU Law Center. In 2017, from the University of Illinois and his JD degree in
he was appointed to the Louisiana Board of Regents by 1988 from the University of Colorado. He was admit-
Gov. John Bel Edwards and currently serves as past chair ted to practice in Colorado in 1988.
of the board and a member of the Executive Committee. Professor Church has served as LSU’s representative
David is president of the Louisiana Association for on the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Board
Justice (Executive Committee member, past chair of the of Governors 14 different times between 1998-present.
Maritime Section). He is a former president and Foun- He is a member of the American Law and Economics
dation board member for the Lafayette Bar Associa- Association, the American Association of Wine Econo-
tion, a former president of the American Inn of Court of mists and the American Intellectual Property Asso-
Acadiana and a member of the International Society of ciation. He is the director of Apprenticeship Week, an
Barristers. He also is a founding board member and for- intensive program to introduce law students to the prac-
mer president of the Lafayette-Acadiana Chapter of the tice of law. He has taught a short course three times in
Federal Bar Association. He is AV-rated by Martindale- American torts at Universite Lyon 3 Jean Moulin, Lyon,
Hubbell. From 2012-22, he was recognized by Louisiana France, and has directed the LSU Law Summer in Lyon
Super Lawyers and is included in the list of Louisiana program 11 times over the past 15 years.
Super Lawyers Top 50 Lawyers in Louisiana (2019-22). Since his arrival at LSU in 1991, he has taught torts,
In his community, he is involved with the Lafayette toxic torts, products liability, antitrust and other sub-
Economic Development Authority, Catholic Charities of jects. He has presented recent developments in torts as
Acadiana, ABC Art Fund and the Acadiana Tigers. part of the LSU Continuing Professional Development
David and his wife Amber are the parents of three CLE program annually since 2004. He is a common fix-
children. ture on tort-related presentations for the LSU Continu-
557 Jefferson St., Lafayette, LA 70501 ing Professional Development CLE program, the LSBA
