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Nicholas Insurance and Financial Services

After running her own successful law firm in Baton Rouge for over a decade, Alva Lemon made the decision to move to Houma in the fall of 2019 to start a new life. She saw this change as an opportunity to start a new career path in insurance – one that she views as a channel for making a difference in the lives of the community she has grown to love so dearly.


Lemon is the owner and operator of NIFS Insurance and Financial Services – an independent agency located on Goode Street in Houma. NIFS Inc. is a full service brokerage writing policies for everything from personal (auto/home) to commercial (P&C/Workers Comp./Group benefits).

One of the few female insurance agency owners in the area, she hopes to stand as an inspiration for other women. 

“It’s tremendous having the opportunity to give women the insight to see, hey this is another arena that we can get into,” Lemon said. “I have a daughter, so my daughter gets to see her mom as a boss….but she sees more than just success – she sees me happy.”


Lemon said that she has a deep love for both her work and the Houma community.

With a strong commitment toward inclusiveness, Lemon feels a heightened responsibility as a woman in her field to be an influence to the community around her.

“I want my legacy to be, hey, this is a woman who looks like me, she comes from similar circumstances as I do and she’s been able to do this,” Lemon said.


Above all, she leans on her Christian faith as the driving force behind everything she does.

“It’s a promise that [God] made to me, and a commitment that I fulfill to him. If he granted me this, then I will give back,” Lemon said. “I think it’s very important to let people know that without God, I couldn’t do anything.” •