CONGRATULATIONS TO JACQUELINE JAMES GREEN, OUR 2023 JACK V. DOLAND AWARD WINNER
This year’s recipient has a true feeling for people in need. She has served on various boards such as Phillips 66 Advisory Board, Sasol Community Advisory Board and Westlake Recreation Board, she is a member of Sulphur Sunrise Rotary, Kiwanis Club of North Lake Charles and VOAD-Volunteer Organizations Active During Disaster.
She was the recipient of the Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Humanitarian Award for Southwest Louisiana in 2022.
She is the current Executive Director for Calcasieu Council On Aging and has been a community advocate for the aging population for the past 23 years. She started with the Calcasieu Council on Aging as the receptionist and has been blessed to advance through the years to become the director in 2012.
She has a true feeling for people in need. As director of the Calcasieu Council on Aging, she searches and implements programs for seniors. Programs for feeding the elderly, and providing for their living needs such as housing, assistance with cleaning and checking on those living alone.
Even though the Calcasieu Council on Aging offices were destroyed after the hurricanes, she still found a way to find temporary facilities and continue to meet the needs of the elderly in our community. As Director, she is working with FEMA and other state agencies in planning the replacement of the destroyed facilities, thus enabling the council to provide more services as needed, while at the same time looking for locations to build more elderly housing through programs with the state and the city.
She is co-owner of James Funeral Home, where she also works offering comfort to families while working to earn her degree as a mortician.
She is a proud mother of four children and three grandchildren.
Jack V. Doland Award
Jack V. Doland Award
Past Recipients
1991 Joanna S. Viccellio
1992 Willie L. Mount
1993 Leona Clements
1994 Blanche Michel
1995 Rose Spencer
1996 Angela Miller
1997 Dr. Lajuana Lee
1998 Dr. Nancy Shepard
1999 Faye Barnhart
2000 Evelyn Cloutman
2001 Bertha Stoner
2002 Rosalie “Poddy” Champeaux
2003 The Honorable Patricia H. Minaldi, Judge
2004 Koni Bridges
2005 (Hurricane Rita)
2006 Anne Gillett Monlezun
2007 Jennifer Jones
2008 Ann Polak
2009 Clarice Raichel
2010 Pearl Cole
2011 Dr. Susan Jones
2012 Jennie Finch Daigle
2013 Christy Papania Jones
2014 Ethel Precht
2015 Stella B. Miller
2016 Jeri Christ Landry
2017 Judge Lilynn Cutrer
2018 Dianne Frelot
2019 DeWanna Tarver
2021 Sister Miriam Maclean
2022 Kelli Tidwell Stawecki