Carla Foreman Dallas

Carla Foreman Dallas, 66, died on August 23, 2025, at her home in Prospect.
Carla grew up in an apartment attached to her family's Jeffersontown funeral home as the only daughter of Aline and the late Charles Terrell (C.T.) Foreman. She could always be counted on for an interesting story she learned from being raised in the business with ties going back to the early 1900's. True to her family tradition, Carla would scour each word of the Courier-Journal obituaries every single day, letting friends know which eulogies merited notice and recommending the appropriate time for visitation if she thought the friend might have known the deceased.
A graduate of Kentucky Country Day School, Carla attended Vanderbilt University and University of London before obtaining her B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1981. She was a 1987 graduate of Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.
Practicing primarily workers' compensation defense, Carla worked for various law firms and for a time with her beloved husband, William R. Dallas, Jr., before his premature death in 2000. Before her 2015 retirement, she was associated with Turner, Keal & Dallas, PLLC, a firm she formed with her college roommate and another longtime friend. Carla's spunky personality and good humor made her a favorite among the close-knit Kentucky workers' comp bar and she was the life of the party at numerous seminars held in various Caribbean locales. Her competitive streak in the workers' comp arena was such that she even once broke several teeth during a poolside game at the Atlantis resort.
Carla loved traveling, the more luxurious the better. She and her mother enjoyed many trips together -in the U.S., in Europe and in South America. She had an absurdist sense of humor, thinking up novel and sometimes nonsensical sayings and nicknames that stuck to people and things for decades. She enjoyed shopping, dancing, newspaper society pages, casino slot machines, and U of L basketball, Carla's quick wit and willingness to listen made her friends that lasted a lifetime. She spent countless holidays with the family of her best friend from high school, Jane Broadwater Long.
Carla is survived by her mother, Aline Crafton Foreman, of Louisville; her brother, Larry C. Foreman, of Taylorsville; her nephew, Charles Courtney Foreman, of Taylorsville; and her longtime companion, Bill Adrio, of Pendleton. A private memorial and burial is planned. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of donations to Home of the Innocents or a charity of your choice.