Five community leaders have been nominated for this year’s East St. Tammany Athena Leadership Award, and the year’s new Athena Young Professional Leadership winner, Lauren Kaufmann Navarre, has already been named.

Nominees for the remaining award are Carra "Beth" Melton, Katheryn Townsend, Kristen Stanley-Wallace, Megan Haggerty and Wendy Keller.

All six will be celebrated, and the Athena Leadership Award winner announced, at a Nov. 5 luncheon at Pinewood Country Club in Slidell.

Nominees are all women living or working in St. Tammany Parish who personify the eight Athena leadership tenets of authentic self, relationships, giving back, collaboration, courageous acts, learning, fierce advocacy, celebration and joy.

Nominees for the Athena Young Professional Leadership Award, sponsored b

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