Mon Oncle Andy: Firm Commitment

Firm Commitment. Get it?

Voila mon Oncle Andy. Of Lester, Loving & Davis Law Firm. http://www.lldlaw.com/index2.html

Unlike my Mama et Papa, mon Oncle Andy [perhaps the title of my next film, but more on that later] hobnobs with the upper-middle-class and the sort of well known. OK, not actually the rich and famous, but far better than the poor and obscure that I tend to meet here. Oncle Andy jets from one exotic locale to another: Edmond, OK to Washington, D.C., to Norfolk, VA to NYC and even Denver, CO. [for more on mon Oncle Andy see the July 9, 2006 entry]

For example, mon Oncle Andy appeared on the Chris Matthews Show, in the Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and was interviewed by Brian Williams. Although Andy has been among the rising stars since the Reagan years, his spirited defense of Mike Brown's FEMA leadership has attracted more broadly based attention. [To read numerous articles of up-to-the-minute critical relevance see his law firm's web site--address above-- and click "news" and then "articles."]

But mon Oncle Andy is more than just another celebrity attorney. He is a community leader, devoted to his family, Tante Barbara and ma cousin Susan, [see entry August 4 2006], and a highly responsible, participatory citizen. Here is one description:

Andrew W. Lester attended Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich, Germany, received an A.B. in History, magna cum laude, from Duke University in 1977. He received J.D. and an M.S. (Foreign Service) in 1981 from Georgetown University.During law school, he was a member of President-Elect Reagan’s Transition Team for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Since 1988, Lester has been an Adjunct Professor at Oklahoma City University School of Law. For eight years, Lester served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma. In that capacity, he presided over numerous trials and handled various other matters.

In 1993, Lester spent several months in the former Soviet Union as a Constitutional Law Specialist for the Central and East European Law Initiative of the American Bar Association.

He has published 1 book and more than 80 articles on professional and public policy issues.

He has served on the boards of the Federalist Society’s Civil Rights Practice Group, the Salvation Army - Oklahoma City Command, the University of Central Oklahoma Foundation, St. Mary’s Episcopal School of Edmond, and the Edmond Rotary Club.

He was chairman of Enid’s Police Civil Service Commission, and a member of the boards of the Booker T. Washington Community Center, Enid Habitat for Humanity, and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Commission.

Lester is referenced in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, and Who’s Who Among Emerging Leaders.

Of course my Mama et Papa are proud to be related to Oncle Andy. Mama claims that, as his older sister by 3 years, it was she that started him down the highway of success by teaching him to read, protecting him from neighborhood bullies, and creating one-act plays and other venues to help sharpen his public appearance skills [only three amongst many more opportunities that she offered him]. She fondly remembers happily sharing her Halloween candy with him, willing to pander to his sweet tooth out of the kindness of her heart.

Only one item gives her pause.

Note the last words of the satisfactorily laudatory paragraphs highlighted in pink above. Mama asks, "Are we actually living in a world in which my brother Andy is among our emerging leaders?"

To which I reply, "The pictoral evidence above suggests mon Oncle Andy has already emerged."