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Recognition of Daniel T. Goyette’s 30 years of defender leadership and 37 years of defender service
WHEREAS, pursuant to KRS Chapter 31, the Public Advocacy Commission is the governing body for the Department of Public Advocacy, the statewide public defender program for the Commonwealth;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette is a 1971 graduate of Marquette University with a double major in English and Philosophy, and the Loyola University Rome, Italy Center of Liberal Arts, and a 1974 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Law and a 1985 graduate of Leadership Louisville and a 1994 Bingham Fellow;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette has been married to his wife, Kathy Popham, for 40 years and has four daughters, Caroline, Katie, Meg, and Ryan, and a grandson, Max;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette joined the Louisville-Jefferson County Public Defender Office on October 15, 1974 and quickly became the chief trial attorney;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette served as Deputy Chief Public Defender for the Louisville-Jefferson County Public Defender Office from 1977 - 1982;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette has served as Executive Director of the Louisville-Jefferson County Public Defender Office since August 1982;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette has served in many professional organizations dedicated to the advancement and study of law especially the advancement of the right to counsel for the indigent accused. These include being a member of the Kentucky, Louisville, and American Bar Associations. He served as the Louisville Bar Association President in 1988, and the President of the Louisville Bar Foundation in 1991. Mr. Goyette is a longtime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is a Charter Board Member and past (2008-2010) President of the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and Past-President of the Kentucky Academy of Justice, a member of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, a Charter Member of the American Council of Chief Defenders, and Co-Chair of the American Council of Chief Defenders National Caseloads Standards Task Force. He served as member of the Kentucky Criminal Justice Council, the Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Committee from 1986-2009, as Chair of the Louisville Bar Association Committee on Professional Responsibility, and as a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility from 1989 – 1992, a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates 1990-1996 and 2006-2012, he was a member of the Kentucky Bar Association, House of Delegates 1982-1986 and 1989-1993 and Chair of the Kentucky Bar Association Criminal Law Section 1983-1985, 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 1994-1995. Since 2011 he has been a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants. Since 1979, he has been an adjunct faculty member at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. He is a charter member of the Louis D. Brandeis American Inn of Court and Chair of its Membership Committee and chaired Citizens for Better Judges and the Center for Educational Leadership;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette’s lifetime of dedicated work and achievement, his high standards, professionalism and excellence have earned him prestigious recognitions including the Department of Public Advocacy’s 1994 Gideon Award for “his extraordinary commitment to equal justice and his courage in advancing the right to counsel for the poor in Kentucky,” and in 1997 the American Bar Association’s prestigious Dorsey Award, the 2003 Hall of Fame William H. Sheppard – Excellence in Community Leadership Award, the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ 2009 Special Recognition Award, the Kentucky Bar Association’s 2003 Justice Thomas B. Spain Award for outstanding service in continuing legal education, and the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville Dean’s Service Award in 2003. He received the Department of Public Advocacy’s 2004 Lincoln Leadership Award. In 2007, Mr. Goyette was the recipient of the Kentucky Bar Association’s Outstanding Lawyer Award. That same year, in its inaugural rating of Kentucky lawyers, Mr. Goyette was recognized by SuperLawyers in the category of criminal defense, and he has been featured in the Top Lawyers edition of Louisville Magazine and other publications. He was the recipient of the 2010 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty’s Outstanding Legal Service Award;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette has lectured on a variety of legal issues and topics both locally and nationally and his knowledge and wisdom in the field of law, especially indigent defense, has been sought by fellow attorneys, students, and scholars across the Commonwealth and nation for decades;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette has been co-counsel on four (4) cases before the Supreme Court of the United States: Watkins v. Sowders, 449 U.S. 341 (1981), Crane v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 683 (1986), Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U.S. 361 (1989), and the landmark case of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986);
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette’s passionate work for public defender clients has spanned nearly four decades;
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette is in his 38th year of service to the Commonwealth as a lawyer, his 37th year of service to the Commonwealth as a public defender, and his 30th year of service as Executive Director of the Louisville-Jefferson County Public Defender Corporation; and
WHEREAS, Daniel T. Goyette has systematically provided the guiding hand of counsel to hundreds of thousands of clients in Jefferson County with paramount pride, relentless passion and dogged perseverance.
THEREFORE, NOW BE IT RESOLVED
That the Kentucky Public Advocacy Commission on behalf of defender staff and clients in the Commonwealth recognizes, congratulates and honors Daniel T. Goyette for his dedicated defender leadership for 30 years and commends Daniel T. Goyette for a lifetime of service and achievement in the practice of indigent defense law and leadership.
This 14th day of September 2012,
Jerry C. Cox
Chair, Public Advocacy Commission
