Two key staffers in the Caddo District Attorney’s office were among a handful of women who walked a runway for a cause March 4 at the Shreveport Convention Center.

Their promenade by Laura Wingate Fulco and  Penya M. Moses-Fields at the Shreveport Mayor’s Women’s Commission 5th Annual Cora M. Allen Luncheon and Fashion Show was the penultimate event of this year’s National Women’s History Month. The keynote speaker was Caddo Parish School Board Member Denee’ Locke. Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler also spoke. Several other honorees represented local police, civic leadership and the military.

Fulco, a career prosecutor and a graduate of the LSU Law School, is the First Assistant District Attorney, named to that post by newly elected District Attorney James Stewart. With the district attorney’s office 17 years, she began by working child support cases and advanced to prosecuting major felonies. For the last 15 years she was a criminal section supervisor.

Moses-Fields, an assistant district attorney, has law degrees from the Villanova University School of Law and the Loyola University School of Law. She came to the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s office this year after serving five years as ADA with the Third Judicial District District Attorney’s office, covering Lincoln and Union parishes.

The week will conclude Saturday, March 5, with two events. The Southern University Museum of Art Shreveport,  610 Texas St., will host the SMWC Young Women’s Leadership Summit from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. It will offer sessions on etiquette, public speaking, health and wellness, college and career readiness, and a panel featuring diverse women in public service. And from 4 to 6 p.m. International Women’s Day will be marked at the Multicultural Center of the South, 520 Spring St. Guest speaker will be Caddo District Court Judge Katherine Dorroh.

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For more information, contact Angelique Feaster Evans, co-chair of the 2016 Cora M. Allen Day Luncheon, at (318) 382-2841.