Name: Walt Leger
Job Title: Senior Vice President
Company Name: New Orleans & Company
Bio: In the Legislature, Walt Leger, III was elected by acclamation in 2012 and again in 2016 to serve as the Speaker Pro Tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the youngest member to ever serve in this 2nd highest ranking position in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He was first elected to be the State Representative for District 91 with 65% of the vote in the fall of 2007 and re-elected without opposition in 2011 and 2015. Leger represents parts of Uptown, Central City, the Lower Garden District, the Irish Channel, Broadmoor, Marleyville Gert Town and Hollygrove in New Orleans.
Bio 2: For twelve years, Walt has carried many of the significant pieces of legislation, advancing the tourism industry and driving the growth of the New Orleans economy. Leger has been widely recognized and acclaimed as a problem solver, a consensus builder and someone who gets results. Since 2008, Leger has passed over one-hundred pieces of legislation. His support for tax, revenue and budget reform and stabilization, strategic infrastructure investments particularly for our ports, rail and multi-modal facilities, criminal justice reform and reinvestment, early childhood care and education, education reform and economic development have been recognized nationally and across the state with dozens of awards naming him a legislative champion, legislator of the year and advocate of the year.
Bio 3: Walt is regularly called upon to lecture at Continuing Legal Education programs for lawyers and Judges through the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association and other organizations. Walt is a founding board member and Vice President of the Louisiana Institute for Children in Families, which focuses on foster youth and adoption as a method for ensuring every child in Louisiana is loved and cared for. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Judicial College, and has lectured regularly over the years at Tulane University School of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, LSU Law School, Tulane University, the Loyola University Institute of Politics, and at conferences around the country for organizations like the National Conference of State Legislators, the Southern Legislative Conference, and the Council of State Governments, Justice Center among others. Walt is also an adjunct professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law.