Tiger Nation
at the Chairman Council level for lifetime giving. Fredrick R. Tulley (1970 BACH H&SS), an attorney with Taylor Porter, was named to the 2015 edition of Best in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Litigation/Banking & Finance, and Litigation/Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year. Michael S. Walsh (1979 BACH H&SS, 1983 JD), an attorney with Taylor Porter, was named to the 2015 edition of Best in the area of Criminal Defense/ Non-White Collar.
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Robert L. Atkinson (1980 BACH H&SS), an attorney with Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson in Baton Rouge, was named to the 2015 edition of Best in the area of Banking & Finance Law.
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Margaret Bauer (1985 BACH H&SS), Rives Chair of Southern Literature in the Department of English and editor of the North at East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, was named a Distinguished Professor in August. Over the course of her career, Bauer has authored or co-authored twenty-three peer-reviewed journal articles; ten book reviews; fourteen essays in books, nine reference book entries, fifty conference papers; and six books. She has been an invited presenter at more than three dozen conferences and given more than two dozen invited lectures. Bauer was primary investigator or coinvestigator on a dozen research grants, totaling more than $110,000. She was named one of the university’s ten Women of Distinction in 2007 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Research and Creative Activity earlier this year. Bauer received her doctoral degree from the University of Tennessee and her master’s degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana.
Stephen C. Carleton (1981 BACH H&SS, 1984 JD), a partner in Carleton, Loraso & Hebert has been appointed to the LSU University College Advisory Board. Admitted to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts and the United States Supreme Court, he is a member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association, Louisiana State Bar Association, and Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel. Carlton’s civic and philanthropic connections include past president and member of the Baton Rouge Kiwanis Club, member and past administrative board member of First United Methodist Church, volunteer legal counsel and patient visitor for Baton Rouge Hospice, volunteer and past board member for Kairos of Louisiana Prison Ministry, Baton Rouge Bar Association Youth Education Committee member and past chair, member of Inter-Civic Council of Baton Rouge, and alumnus of Baton Rouge Leadership Class of 2011. David Charlton (1980 BACH BUS, 1983 JD), an attorney with Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson in Baton Rouge, was named to the 2015 edition of Best in the areas of Closely Held Companies and Family Business Law.