Board of Directors

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Larry C. Becnel, Chair Catherine Lemann, Secretary Gregory Curtis, Treasurer
Kim Boyle Brien Gussoni Rosetta B. Lee
Jane E. Martin Tomas Mulleady A. Gerald Pelayo
Jerome J. Pellerin Glenn J. Reames Richard E. Rolston
John L. Royes Demond Smith
Larry C. Becnel
Chair
lcbecnel@aidslaw.org

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Larry Becnel is a graduate of Louisiana State University and its Paul M. Hebert Law Center. While in law school, he served on the Louisiana Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. He has been in private practice for over 26 years. A former associate editor of the Franchise Law Journal, his writings have appeared in several legal periodicals and in two books published by the American Bar Association. He is the father of two children, Marc, a seaman in the U.S.Navy, and Erin, a graduate student at LSU in Baton Rouge.
Rosetta Beverly Lee

rlee@aidslaw.org

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Rosetta Lee, a native New Orleanian, attended the University of New Orleans and Wayne State University in Detroit. The single parent of an adult child, Ms. Lee has been active in the No/AIDS Walk. She is presently employed by the New Orleans Legal Assistance Corporation and works in the public benefits section.
Catherine Lemann

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Catherine Lemann is Electronic Resources / Reference Librarian at the Law Library of Louisiana and maintains the Internet sites of the Supreme Court of Louisiana and the Law Library. She received the 1999 Margaret T. Lane Award from the Louisiana Library Association Government Documents Round Table in recognition of her efforts in making the opinions of the Louisiana Supreme Court available to the public. Prior to joining the library in 1991, she practiced law in New Orleans. As a member of the Access to Electronic Legal Information Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries, she has assessed the accessibility of many state judicial sites. Ms. Lemann is a frequent speaker on the topics of electronic legal research and access to court information and a regular contributor to the New Orleans Bar Association newsletter. She is a member of many professional organizations including the Louisiana State and New Orleans Bar Associations, the American Association of Law Libraries, the New Orleans Association of Law Librarians, and is President-Elect of the Southeastern Chapter of AALL. Ms. Lemann received her J.D. degree from Tulane Law School in 1980 and her Masters in Library and Information Science from Louisiana State University in 1991.
Jane E. Martin

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Jane Martin has a nursing degree from Emory University, an M.A. in Adult Health Nursing from New York University, and her certification as a Family Nurse Clinician from Mississippi University for Women. She presently is employed as a primary care provider/FNP at Charity Hospital's HIV Outpatient Clinic and is also an instructor at the LSU Medical Center Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, the principal investigator and project director of the Delta AIDS Education and Training Center, and an assistant professor of clinical nursing at the School of Nursing. Her professional activities include serving on the Mayor's New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council and serving as President of the Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners. She is the Executive Editor of Faculty Notes, co-author of Collaboration in Caring-Patient Care Protocols in the HIV Outpatient Clinic of the Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans and author of Understanding HIV Lab Tests, Second Edition.
Tomas Mulleady

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Tomas Melleady, a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of New Orleans since 1990, received his Masters of Public Health from Tulane University in 1988. A former program manager for NO/AIDS Task Force, Mr. Mulleady is fluent in Spanish and English.
Glenn J. Reames

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Glenn J. Reames is a board certified tax attorney and sole practitioner in New Orleans where he specializes in the ERISA, employee benefit, executive compensation, tax and estate planning areas. Licensed to practice in Georgia and Louisiana, he received his law degree from Tulane University in 1987, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and was Chief Justice of the Tulane Moot Court. In 1988 he received his L.L.M. from New York University where he was a graduate editor of the Tax Law Review. In addition to his law degrees, Mr. Reames holds a B.A. and M.S. in mathematics from the University of New Orleans. He is presently legal counsel for Outlook Magazine and serves on the board of PFLAG.
Richard E. Rolston

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Ric Rolston received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, in 1981 from Birmingham-Southern College and a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art ion 1983. He has been self-employed for nine years as a Visual Merchandiser, Store Designer, Display Craftsperson and Artist. Mr. Rolston is HIV-positive and currently participating in his second clinical trial.
John L. Royes

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John Royes attended the University of New Orleans and Loyola University in New Orleans. After working in banking for several years, he founded Peoples Home Health Care Hospice in 1984, and added hospice care in 1987. In 1994, Mr. Royes started Operation Hope, a non-profit gun buy-back program organized to reduce violent crime which has removed over 800 guns from the community. In his spare time, Mr. Royes has studied world cultures and religion, particularly life and death in the United States, Africa, Europe and Asia.

This list was last updated on 20 May 2000.