Bench & Bar March/April 2025

IN MEMORIAM

NAME STANLEY M. BILLINGSLEY JOHN D. COLE ROBERT HAROLD COMPTON ALLEN CAMPBELL EWEN CHARLES S. FOSTER KENNETH H. GILLIAM PATRICIA COLLEEN LE MEUR JOHN R. MAYER ROGER ALAN MICHAEL RUSSELL L. O'BRIEN CHARLES DAVID PATRICK EUGENE BRUCE PFLUGHAUPT DANNY FRANKLIN ROCK MICHAEL L. SCHULKENS RONALD LEE SCHWOEPPE ROBERT MICHAEL SLAVEN JAMES ROBERT STANSBURY ANN D. STURGILL JAMES NORMAN WILLIAMS

STATE KY KY KY KY KY KY KY NC

DATE NOVEMBER 29, 2022 DECEMBER 22, 2024 DECEMBER 26, 2024 NOVEMBER 29, 2024 DECEMBER 14, 2024 JANUARY 31, 2025 AUGUST 30, 2024 JANUARY 17, 2024 AUGUST 17, 2024 JANUARY 25, 2025 OCTOBER 3, 2024 DECEMBER 20, 2024 MAY 27, 2024 JANUARY 19, 2025 AUGUST 5, 2024 NOVEMBER 8, 2024 JANUARY 16, 2025 DECEMBER 15, 2024 DECEMBER 7, 2024

CITY CARROLLTON BOWLING GREEN

LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE MAYFIELD LONDON

LOUISVILLE HIGHLANDS GEORGETOWN LOUISVILLE HARRODSBURG DANVILLE HODGENVILLE COLD SPRING LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE LONDON LEXINGTON JEFFERSONVILLE

KY KY KY KY KY KY KY KY KY KY IN

PATRICIA (TRICIA) COLLEEN LE MEUR The brilliant Wisdom Dakini, Namkha Drolma, Patricia (Tricia) Colleen Le Meur died. Dancing her way out of this world realm to share her light, love and power with us in other ways. Tricia died at her home on Friday August 30, 2024, holding her partner Chance’s hand, after an ongoing struggle with her recurrent sarcoma. She was born on August 22, 1969, in Lou isville. She grew up in Shepherdsville, Ky., with her parents, Carolyn Fanning Keelen and Lawrence Ray Keelen, and her siblings Diana, Carol and Kevin.

law. She contributed to defense verdicts in a variety of cases and contributed to cases for the ACLU and Americans with Disabili ties Act action, a cause about which she was very passionate. Tricia was a practitioner of Vajrayana Bud dhism and a fierce advocate for kindness, justice and understanding. Anyone who met or knew her immediately experienced the extraordinary light of wisdom and love in her eyes. The preceding memoriam for Patricia “Tricia” Le Meur is based upon information obtained from Ratterman Funeral Home’s website. To access the obituary in its entirety, visit: https://www.ratterman.com/obituaries/ Patricia-Tricia-Le-Meur?obId=33020353

Tricia graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1991 with a bachelor’s degree in philos ophy. Tricia went on to obtain a master’s degree in anatomical sciences and neuro biology from the University of Louisville while working as a research scientist at the Veterans Administration. She then decided to pursue a J.D. and graduated from the University of Louisville’s Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in 2001. She was a partner at Phillips, Parker, Orb erson, Arnett, where she practiced and specialized in medical negligence, prem ises liability, personal injury, employment law, anti-discrimination law and appellate

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