Catherine Kimball, the first woman to ever serve on as a Louisiana Supreme Court justice and the first woman ever to serve as the body’s Chief Justice, was presented with the inaugural LSU Women’s Center “Esprit de Femme” award on March 12.The award honors a person each year who has worked to end the struggles of women at both the local and national levels.Before she accepted the award, Kimball gave her keynote speech in the Bo Campbell Auditorium in the Cox Communications Academic Center for Student-Athletes on the history of women in politics in Louisiana.——Contact Adam Duvernay at [email protected]