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Distinguished Service Award - Charlie Ricketts

The Distinguished Service Award is presented to an LBA member who has made a significant contribution to the bar association through volunteer service. Charlie Ricketts has been a stalwart member of the LBA for many years, serving on the board , on the executive committee, and as president. He continues to serve on several LBA committees.

Ricketts consistently speaks at CLE seminars and writes for Bar Briefs. He volunteers for many of the association's public service programs, including Call-A-Lawyer and Law Day in School. He has worked tirelessly to promote both the legal profession and the bar association within the community and has been the voice behind the " Ask the Lawyers" program on WHAS Radio for over 20 years. For all his efforts on behalf of the Louisville Bar Association and the legal community, the LBA recognized him with the Distinguished Service Award.

His chosen profession, the law, has brought him many honors - he is a former President of the Louisville Bar Association, a three-term Governor of the Kentucky Bar Association, and President of the Kentucky Academy of Justice.

Mr. Ricketts Successful on behalf of Whistleblower

Mr. Ricketts was successful on behalf of his whistleblower client Kenneth Hollis against the Tennessee based American Home Patient Inc. which paid $7 million to the federal government to settle allegations in a Kentucky case that it submitted false medical claims, according to the United States Department of Justice. Attorney Charlie Ricketts brought this case on behalf of a former AHP employee.

Hollis was awarded $1.2 million of the government's $7 million settlement.

Under the Federal False Claims Act, people who know of individuals or companies defrauding the government can sue on behalf of the government and share the proceeds of the suit.

Ricketts named Chairman of former FBI agents' organization

The Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Inc, has named Mr. Ricketts to the position of Chairman of that national organization's legal committee. Ricketts is a former special agent of the FBI.