LSU CLE - Key Persons
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- Reference Librarian, Library Faculty
Allen, who also serves as a professor of law, previously served as deputy director for the Association of American Law Schools and as a professor of law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Allen's scholarship focuses on health policy and tort law, and it has been published in the North Carolina Law Review, Fordham Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, BYU Law Review, and Cardozo Law Review. She was named an American Society of Medicine, Law, and Ethics Health Scholar at the Center for Health Law Studies, St. Louis University School of Law.
Prior to joining LSU, Allen served as interim dean and professor of law at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. She also served as associate dean for research and faculty development. Allen began her academic career at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where she was awarded Professor of Year in 2013, the Farris Bobango Faculty Scholarship Award in 2019, and the MLK 50 Faculty Service Award in 2021. In addition to serving as an associate professor of law, she also served as director of diversity, director of research, and was elected to serve in the faculty senate. Allen taught courses in torts, health law, and family law.
Allen earned her bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Loyola University New Orleans. She is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where she was the articles editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation. She served as a law clerk for Judge Samuel H. Mays, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and Judge Paulette J. Delk, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee. Allen also previously worked as an associate in the healthcare group at Arnold & Porter's Washington D.C. office, and in the employee benefits group at Baker Botts in Houston.
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- Administration
- Dean and Professor of Law
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- Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs
- Professor of Family Law at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Andrea Beauchamp Carroll is the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation. In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she teaches and writes about family law, community property, and property.
Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field, and has most recently been published in the Indiana, Tulane, Brooklyn, and Cardozo law reviews. Her Tulane article on civil law property was honored at the 2005 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
Professor Carroll is also active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute's Children's Code, and Adult Guardianship Committees. She led the comprehensive revision of Louisiana's community property law in the area of reimbursement rights in 2009, the first substantial revision of Louisiana's community property rules since 1979. And she led a successful reform of Louisiana's child relocation rules in 2012. As Reporter of the Law Institute's Marriage and Persons Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.
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- Assistant Director of Admissions for the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Biography
Blair R. Boles is the Assistant Director of Admissions for the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She first joined the LSU Law staff in March 2022 as the Admissions Coordinator and Recruiter before assuming her current position in July 2023.
Boles recruits prospective students and advises them on the admissions process, curriculum, and scholarships at LSU Law. Prior to her role in the admissions office, she practiced law for nearly four years. She is an accomplished professional and dedicated member of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center community, having earned her Juris Doctor degree from the very institution she now serves.
Boles is also a published author and co-owner of an independent bookstore/wine bar in Lafayette, Louisiana. She co-owns the bookstore with four close friends, two of which were her former law school classmates.
She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from The University of Louisiana at Monroe and is a 2018 graduate of LSU Law. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and spending time with her family and beloved dog Birdie.
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- Director of External Relations
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- Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research Professor of Law
- Professor
Caprice L. Roberts joined LSU Law faculty in the Fall 2022 semester as a tenured full professor. She teaches Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Remedies. She came to LSU Law from the George Washington University Law School, where she was a Visiting Professor of Law. She has also taught Contracts, Legislation & Regulation, Property, Jurisprudence, and a seminar in Judicial Power & Restraint-a unifying theme of her scholarship. She recently served as Special Attorney to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. Her op-ed on Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation hearing appeared in The Washington Post. Her works have appeared in prominent journals such as: Florida, Cincinnati, Maryland, Washington & Lee, Villanova, Tennessee, Rutgers, Marquette, Lewis & Clark, Louisville, and Seattle. The United States Supreme Court has frequently cited Professor Roberts's work including her law review articles and Remedies treatise.
Throughout her academic career, Professor Roberts has devoted scholarly and teaching attention to proper judicial role and the advancement of the law of remedies. She recently completed the new edition of the seminal treatise Dobbs & Roberts's Law of Remedies and has published the ninth edition of a leading Remedies casebook with Doug Rendleman, as well as a coauthored casebook in Federal Courts with Michael Allen and Michael Finch. She has won several awards for her teaching and publications. Professor Roberts is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves as an Adviser on Tort Remedies, and previously served on the Consultative Group for the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment. She has served as Chair of the AALS Remedies Section and currently serves as the Deputy Executive Director and Vice-Chair of Programming for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. She is a Remedies Section Editor for JOTWELL and periodic guest blogger at PrawfsBlawg.
She started her academic career at West Virginia University College of Law, where she earned tenure, rose to full professor, and eventually served as Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development. She also has taught at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Florida State University College of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, Savannah Law School, and Catholic University Columbus School of Law. Prior to the academy, Professor Roberts clerked for Chief Judge Julia Smith Gibbons of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and Judge Ronald Lee Gilman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She also practiced complex civil and criminal litigation with Skadden Arps for several years. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from Washington & Lee University, where she was lead articles editor and named to the Order of the Coif. She obtained her B.A. in political theory from Rhodes College.
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- Interim Director of Information Technology Services
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- Director of Administration & Operations
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- Coordinator of Academic Area
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- Director of Admissions at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
- Director of Law Admissions
Daphne A. James is the Director of Admissions at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She joined the LSU Law staff as an admissions counselor and was promoted to assistant director and associate director before assuming her current role in 2020.
James has over 20 years of experience in higher education, beginning at Southeastern Louisiana University where she served as an admissions counselor and was later appointed to the role of Coordinator of Scholarship Services.
She is currently a member of the LSU System Council of Staff Advisors and the Southwestern Association of Pre-Law Advisors. James works closely with the LSU Law Ambassadors program and several other law student organizations and is trained through the GRACE (Gaining Resilience and Cultivating Empowerment) program at Louisiana State University to provide confidential support to students and colleagues who may have been impacted by sexual violence.
She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Louisiana State University and a master's degree in social sciences from Southern University.
Dean Alena Allen will serve as a panelist for "How to Become a Law Teacher," a webinar hosted by the Association of American Law Schools. She will join other recently hired faculty, hiring chairs, and deans to discuss the pathways to the legal academy.
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- Assistant Dean & Director of the Center of Civil Law Professor of Law
- Professor of Law
Dr. Olivier Moréteau is Professor of Law, first holder of the Russell B. Long Eminent Scholars Academic Chair, at the Louisiana State University (LSU) Paul M. Hébert Law Center. He joined LSU in 2005. He is the Assistant Dean for International Programs, Director of the Center of Civil Law Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Civil Law Studies.
Professor Moréteau is the former Director of the Édouard Lambert Institute of Comparative Law at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France, where he was an Assistant Professor (1982-90), Associate Professor (1990-98) and then Full Professor (Professeur agrégé). He also served as Director and Vice President for international relations at this university (1993-99). He earned his Doctorate in Law summa cum laude at the Université Jean Moulin, 1990, after research conducted in Cambridge with a British Council scholarship. He has been visiting professor at the University of Minnesota (1992), Boston University (1993-97, 1999-00, 2002-04), the University of Melbourne (2002, 2004), the University of Luxembourg (2014, 2015), Université Jean Moulin (2012-2018) and Université de Nantes (2013, 2015).
Professor Moréteau has authored and edited books in French and in English, and written over a hundred articles, chapters, notes, and reviews in various languages, published in international periodicals or books, on the civil law, common law, comparative law, law and languages, legal translation, tort law, the law of obligations, codification, and legal education. A fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation and member of the Louisiana Bar Equivalency Panel, he holds memberships in the International Academy of Comparative Law, the European Group on Tort Law (Emeritus), the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law, the Société de Législation comparée, the American Law Institute, the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, the European Society of Comparative Legal History, and is the president of Juris Diversitas.
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- Director of the 1L Legal Writing
is the Director of the 1L Legal Writing courses. Before coming to the Law Center in 1998, Barry was a senior staff attorney for the Louisiana House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary. She also practiced law in Baton Rouge and specialized in maritime law. She currently serves as a research consultant to the Judicial Administrator's Office of the Louisiana Supreme Court's District Court Rules Committee where she proofread and edits changes to local state court rules. Throughout much of her legal career, she was an adjunct instructor of appellate advocacy at the Law Center. Barry received her Juris Doctor and Master of Social Work degrees from Louisiana State University. While in law school, she was a member of the Moot Court Board, a finalist in the Robert Lee Tullis Moot Court Competition, and served on the Law Center's Ethics Committee.
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- Director of Career Services
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- Associate Director of Alumni Relations
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- Instructional Technology Supervisor
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- Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
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- Law Admissions Coordinator and Recruiter
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- Director of Field Placements & Moot Court / Trial Advocacy Program Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
Biography
Jeffrey Brooks joined the LSU Law Center faculty in 2010. He is the faculty director of the Law Center's Field Placement Program and of its moot court, mock trial, and alternative dispute resolution program (the Advocacy Program).
Prior to joining the Law Center faculty, Brooks practiced law as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Special Federal Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department, where he was a trial attorney representing the City of New York and the New York City Police Department in federal civil rights cases, particularly the complex litigation arising out of mass arrests made during the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Prof. Brooks is a 2006 graduate of Tulane University Law School, where he was named to the Order of the Barristers. While at Tulane, he was the Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the Journal of Law and Sexuality, a Senior Justice on Tulane's Moot Court Board, the President of its Public Interest Law Society, and a member of Tulane's Jessup International Law Moot Court Team and National Environmental Law Moot Court Team. Prof. Brooks received a B.A. in Geography-Anthropology from Vassar College in 2003.
Prof. Brooks is highly active in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, the world's largest moot court competition, as a judge and administrator. He was the author of the 2017 Jessup Problem, the Case Concerning the Sisters of the Sun, and was the recipient of the competition's 2016 Pamela Young Award and 2015 Steven M. Schneebaum Award.
Prof. Brooks is an active licensed member of the New York State Bar.
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- Manager of Alumni Engagement
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- Marketing and Events Coordinator
John P. Laborde Endowed Chairs in Energy Law and the Laborde Energy Law Support Fund
John P. Laborde ('49), a well-known New Orleans civic leader and a leader of Louisiana's energy sector, made an historic $2M+ gift to the Law Center to endow the program and to ensure its continuation for years to come. Mr. Laborde's gift provided for a double-endowed chair and a programmatic support fund. For 40 years, Mr. Laborde led Tidewater Marine, an international marine service company that he co-founded. After retiring from Tidewater in 1994, he served as Chairman of the Board for numerous Laborde family businesses until his passing in fall of 2021.
Kathy Simino graduated from the LSU Law Center in 1987, where she served as Chairman of the Moot Court Board. After graduation, she served as a law clerk for the Hon. L.J. Hymel in the 19 th Judicial District Court. Thereafter, Simino was a public defender in the 19 th Judicial District Court for five years where, in addition to handling matters in the courtroom, prepared all of the briefs and writ applications for the office. In 1992, Simino went to clerk for the Hon. Freddie Pitcher, Jr. at the First Circuit Court of Appeal. After Judge Pitcher's retirement, Simino clerked for several other judges before going into private practice, with a focus on appellate practice. Professor Simino was an adjunct professor at the Law Center teaching advanced appellate advocacy for several years before joining the Professional Practice and Legal Writing Department.
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- Metadata and Digital Services Librarian
- Metadata and Digital Services Librarian / Education
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- Chairman
- Director
- Charities Professor of Energy Law
- Director of the Energy Law Center Director of the Mineral Law Institute Professor of Law
- Editor - in - Chief of the Institute for Energy Law 's Oil & Gas E - Report
- Nesser Family Chair
- Professor of Law
Keith B. Hall is the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law, and John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 3 and 4. He is also Director of the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center and Director of the Mineral Law Institute. He teaches Mineral Rights, International Petroleum Transactions, Energy Law & Regulation, and Civil Law Property. His publications have focused on oil and gas leases, pooling and unitization, hydraulic fracturing, induced seismicity, and the management of produced water. He is co-author of three books-a national oil and gas casebook that is used in law schools, a book on legal issues relating to hydraulic fracturing that is published by the American Bar Association, and the leading textbook on international petroleum law and transactions. He is a frequent speaker at national and international oil and gas, energy, and environmental law conferences, and is one of the editors on a book on international oil and gas decommissioning regulations. In addition to teaching at LSU, he has taught energy law classes as a visiting professor at Baku State University in Azerbaijan, as a Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola School of Law (New Orleans). Before joining the LSU Law Center's faculty, he was a member of the firm Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann in New Orleans, where he practiced law for 16 years, with a focus on oil and gas litigation and transactions, environmental law, and toxic tort litigation.
Professor Hall is Editor-in-Chief of the Institute for Energy Law's Oil & Gas E-Report, and he serves as a member of the Trustees Council of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law (formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation), the Board of Trustees of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, and the Educational Advisory Board of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He is a former Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association's Environmental Law Section and former Chair of the Oil & Gas Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy and Resources. He serves on the Louisiana Law Institute's Water Law Committee and is a registered professional engineer (license status, inactive).
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- Law Admissions Coordinator and Recruiter
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- Assistant Professor of Professional Practice
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- Instructional Technology Analyst
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- Assistant Director of Career Services
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- Associate Director of Career Services
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- Head of Access Services & Government Information
- Head of Access Services & Government Information / Education
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- Associate Director for Public Services at the LSU Law Library
- Associate Director for Public Services, Library Faculty
Biography
Melissa Strickland is the Associate Director for Public Services at the LSU Law Library. She joined the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center faculty in 2017 after serving as the reference and electronic services librarian at the Charleston School of Law.
Strickland coordinates reference, instruction, and faculty services in the LSU Law Library. She has also taught Advanced Legal Research, Louisiana Legal Research, Legal Research and Writing, and Pretrial Advocacy.
Strickland holds both her bachelor's degree in political science and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston. She earned her Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of North Texas.
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- Assistant Director, Law CCPD
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- Interim Director for the Library and Information Technology Services
- Interim Director for the Library and Information Technology Services / Education
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- Coordinator
- Coordinator of Academic Area II
Biography
Norma Marsh serves an Academic Coordinator II and joined LSU Law in the summer of 2023. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in European history from LSU. Prior to joining LSU Law, she taught Advanced Placement English Literature and Dual Enrollment English Composition (LSU), as well as Advanced Placement U.S., European, and World History courses. She has previously worked with the College Board, writing an advance syllabus for the AP World History course redesign. Additionally, she has served as an AP Reader, scoring essays for the U.S. History exam. Prior to teaching, Norma worked in the computer software industry in international marketing and was the marketing manager for a local business publication.
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- Administrative Program / Project Manager
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- Information Services Librarian
Biography
Rita M. Parham is a long standing librarian at the Paul M. Hebert Law Library.
Her educational career includes:
Southern University and A & M College earning the Bachelor of Science, Major: English secondary education; Minor studies in Library Science
University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies A.M.L.S. - Arts Master of Library Science
Tulane University, University College - School of Continuing Studies Paralegal Studies Program; Paralegal Studies Certificate.
She is a member of AALL - American Association of Law Libraries, with membership in AALL - SIS, Special Interest Sections and Caucus memberships including: Black Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries; Academic Law Libraries SIS; Social Responsibilities SIS. Annual supporter, AALL & Thomson West - George A. Strait Minority Scholarship Endowment. ABA - Associate Member, American Bar Association, SEAALL - Southestern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries, former member of NOALL - New Orleans Association of Law Libraries. Locally she is a member of BRAALL - Baton Rouge Area Association of Law Libraries, where she served as Vice-President / President Elect, 2003-2004 and as President 2004-2005.
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- Assistant Dean of Experiential Education
Robert Lancaster is the Assistant Dean of Experiential Education. He teaches the Parole and Re-entry Clinic, Divorce and Child Custody Mediation, and Legal Interviewing and Counseling. His professional interests are primarily focused on the pedagogy of experiential legal education, exploration of issues of mass incarceration and prisoner reentry, and alternative methods of conflict resolution in family decision making.
Prior to LSU, he was a Clinical Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law -Indianapolis where he taught in the Civil Practice Clinic, the Judicial Field Placement Program, Lawyering Practice, and a seminar exploring wrongful convictions. Professor Lancaster has also taught in the Criminal Justice Defense Clinic at the Washington School of Law, American University in Washington, D.C. and was a Cover Fellow at the Yale Law School. Prior to teaching, he represented death row inmates in state post-conviction and federal habeas proceedings.
Professor Lancaster has extensive experience living and working overseas. He spent a gap year after his college graduation living and working in Japan. He has travelled throughout the provinces of China for four years while he was the faculty director of the China Trial Advocacy Institute (CTAI) - a rule of law and human rights project headquartered at Renmin University School of Law in Beijing and funded by the Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor of the United States Department of State. He also served as resident faculty for the China Law Summer Program and the European Law Summer Program while at Indiana University. Professor Lancaster regularly serves as a visiting professor at the Université Grenoble Alpes Faculté de droit in France and at Shandong University School of Law in Weihai, China.
Professor Lancaster is a founding member and President of the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Parole Project - a non-profit focused on decarceration and the successful reentry of individuals who have served long prison sentences. He serves on the Louisiana State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and he also serves the Louisiana State Bar Association as a member of the Access to Justice Committee and the LGBT Section of the Diversity Committee. Professor Lancaster was also a longstanding member of the Board of Governors for the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)-a community of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity and academic excellence.
Professor Lancaster received his BA, magna cum laude, in Philosophy (with Honors in English) from Millsaps College and his JD, cum laude, from Tulane Law School. He is admitted to practice in Louisiana, Indiana, and Connecticut and is a Qualified Child Custody and Visitation Mediator in Louisiana.
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- Eminent Scholars Chair, Justice Pike Hall Distinguished Professorship
- Eminent Scholars Chair, Justice Pike Hall Distinguished Professorship / Assistant Dean & Director of the Center of Civil Law Professor of Law
Biography
Ryan S. Waits is the Assistant Registrar of the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She joined the LSU Law staff in 2019 as a member of the admissions team.
Waits brings over a decade of enrollment and records management experience to the Law Center. In the Office of Student Records, she serves as a resource for enrollment guidance, course selection advice, and academic policies and procedures. She is also committed to fostering a positive and enriching educational environment for all LSU Law students.
Beyond her work at the Law Center, Waits is a member of various organizations such as the LSU Black Faculty and Staff Caucus, the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and the National Network of Law School Officers. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Within these organizations she contributes to various committees and caucuses, showing her dedication to community development and the advancement of her field.
Waits is an alumna of Southern University and holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in mass communications. She is a Baton Rouge native and lifelong Tiger fan.
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- Director of Communications
- Senior Associate
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- Coordinator of Instructional and Professional Practice Support
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- Career Services Coordinator
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- Director of Student Records & Associate Registrar
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- Assistant Director for Instructional Technology, Library Faculty
- Assistant Director for Instructional Technology, Library Faculty / Education