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Walt Leger is Executive Vice President and General Counsel and incoming President and CEO at New Orleans & Company, the
official destination marketing and sales organization for the tourism industry of the City of New Orleans. Boasting 1100 member
businesses, New Orleans & Company’s goal is to cultivate and maintain a virtuous cycle between the
businesses and attractions that make up the tourism industry, the visitors who invest in those
business and attractions, and the city’s residents who benefit from tourism.
Walt Leger has been widely recnognized across the state of Louisiana as a strategic thinker and fierce
advocate. First as an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans and later as an attorney with the
law firm of Leger & Shaw, Walt has been a zealous advocate for his clients and victims of violent
crime for almost 20 years.
Walt was elected in the fall of 2007 to the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 91,
representing neighborhoods across the City of New Orleans. He was re-elected twice without
opposition in 2011 and 2015. In 2012, he was elected by acclamation to serve as the Speaker Pro
Tempore of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the youngest member to ever serve in this 2
nd
highest ranking position in the Louisiana House, a role in which he served again from 2016-2020.
Walt left the Legislature in 2020 due to term limits. Leger remains actively involved in community
and civic activities including serving on the Board of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce,
GNO, Inc., LSU Ogden Honors College, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, the Louisiana
Institute for Children in Families, Goodwill Industries, Early Partners Early Childhood Education,
the Anti-Defamation League, Louisiana Appleseed, the Council on Criminal Justice and serves as an
Adjunct Law Professor at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans.

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