Corridor leaders head up Council for a Better Louisiana

Several community leaders from the 10/12 corridor will be leading the Council for A Better Louisiana this year. Robert W. Levy is the new chairman of the Council for A Better Louisiana. Levy is in his fourth term as district attorney for the Third Judicial District for Lincoln and Union parishes, and served for more than a decade as mayor of Vienna. Gregory N. Rattler, Sr., first vice president of the Government and Nonprofit Banking Group of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank and former deputy director of finance for the City of New Orleans, is chairman-elect of CABL. Other officers include treasurer Patrick Moore of Alexandria, co-owner and managing principal of the Moore Planning Group; and Secretary Alice Pecoraro of Morgan City, who recently retired from Nicholls State University. William Hines, Managing Partner with the Jones Walker Law Firm in New Orleans, is the immediate past chairman. Others elected to new or additional terms include: Dr. Ray Authement, former President of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Dr. Daryl Burckel, who heads the Department of Accounting, Finance & Economics at McNeese State University; Attorney Neil Erwin of Shreveport; Business Council of New Orleans Managing Director Robert W. Brown; David Conroy, a partner at the Milling Benson Woodward Law Firm in New Orleans; community activist Anne Milling of Women of the Storm, also from New Orleans; Sara Roberts, managing partner at Dunn, Roberts, & Co. in Lake Charles; Capital One Bank Louisiana State President Rob Stuart of Baton Rouge; and Thomas Turner, vice chairman/COO of Turner Industries in Baton Rouge.