Straw-Boone Doheny Banks & Mudd PLLC

Attorney Melanie Straw-Boone

Bar Admissions:

• Kentucky, 1994
• Indiana, 1994
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 1994
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 1994

Education:

• University of Louisville School of Law, Louisville, Kentucky, 1994
  
  • J.D.
  • Honors: magna cum laude
• Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1991
  
  • B.S.
  • Major: Business

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Louisville Bar Association (Member)
• Louisville Bar Association, Family Law Section, 2002 - Present (Chair)
• Louisville Bar Association, Family Law Section, 2001 (Vice Chair)
• Jefferson County Women Lawyers Association (Member)
• Jefferson County Women Lawyers Association, 2001 (Treasurer)
• Jefferson Court Advisory Board (Member)
• Fellow: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (President, Kentucky Chapter, 2011-2012, Vice-President, 2013-2014)
• Louisville Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2009
• Louisville Bar Association, Chair, Pro Bono Consortium, 2006-2009
• Kentucky Bar Association (Ethics Committee, 2011-present, Trial Commissioner, 2007-2011)
• Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court, 2003-2006
• Co-Chair, Jefferson Family Court Advisory Committee, 2003-2007
• Indiana Bar Association

Attorney Laurel Doheny

Bar Admissions:

• Kentucky, 1992
• U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky, 1993
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky, 1993

Education:

• Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1992
  
  • J.D.
  • Honors: cum laude
  • Law Journal: Journal of Family Law, Member
• University of Louisville, 1989
  
  • B.A.

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Kentucky Bar Association, Member, 1992
• Legal Aid Society (Secretary and Member)
• Citizens for Better Judges (Member)
• Focus Louisville Alumni Group (Member)
• Brandeis Society (Member)
• Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court, 2002 - 2003 (Member)
• Louisville Bar Association (President, 2010; President-Elect, 2009; Vice-President/Treasurer, April 2008-December 2008;
• Secretary of Board, January-March 2008; Board Member, 2005-2008; Former Chair, Family Law Section; Member, 1992)
• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Fellow (2008)
• Focus Louisville Member (2000)

Attorney Thomas Banks

Education:

• University of Louisville School of Law, Louisville, Kentucky, 2007
  
  • J.D.
• Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, 2004
  
  • Pre Law
• University of Louisville, 2003
  
  • B.A.
  • Honors: Dean’s List, 1999-2003 Top 10 Graduate, CBPA Class of 2003

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Louisville Bar Association Member
• Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court Member
• Kentucky Bar Association Member
• Indiana Bar Association Member
• American Bar Association Member
• Kentucky Justice Association Member

Attorney Jesse A. Mudd

Bar Admissions:

• Kentucky, 2003
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit

Education:

• Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 2003
  
  • J.D.
  • Honors: magna cum laude
  • Law Journal: Brandeis Law Journal, Senior Editor
• University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 2000
  
  • B.A.
  • Major: Business Administration

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Kentucky Bar Association
• Louisville Bar Association
• Brandeis Society
• Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court
• Young Professionals Association of Louisville
• Louisville Bar Association Litigation Section, Chair, 2009
• Louisville Bar Association Litigation Section, Vice-Chair, 2008

Attorney Peter Catalano

Bar Admissions:

• Kentucky, 2017
• Indiana, 2021

Education:

• Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, May, 2017
  
  • Juris Doctor
  • Honors: Member of the Robert and Sue Ellen Ackerson Law Clinic
  • Honors College at the College of Charleston
  • Bachelors of Arts in Political Science

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Kentucky Bar Association Family Law Section, Member
• Louisville Bar Association Family Law Section, Member

Attorney Michele L. McKinney

Education:

• Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Highland Heights, Kentucky
  
  • J.D.
  • Honors: Editor and Writer
• Western Kentucky University
  
  • Bachelors of Arts in English, Journalism, and Speech

Professional Memberships and Achievements:

• Kentucky Bar Association, Admitted 2015
• Louisville Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Women Lawyers Association of Jefferson County