Backing Bill: The political action committee of the Associated Builders & Contractors Inc. Pelican Chapter—ABC Pelican PAC—has given its endorsement to District Judge Bill Morvant, a Republican, in his bid for the Louisiana Supreme Court’s 5th District. Morvant also has the endorsement of ABC Merit PAC, the political action committee of the Bayou Chapter of the national association. Daily Report is compiling a list of endorsements for candidates in the East Baton Rouge Parish mayoral, Public Service Commission District 2 and Louisiana Supreme Court 5th District races. You can check it out here; and if your association or organization has an endorsement in one of these races you’d like to share, please email it to ssanoski@businessreport.com.
On this new morning: Robert Sloan has been appointed as the first director of the LSU Energy Law Center, LSU Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss announced this morning. Sloan’s appointment is effective Nov. 1. The center, which got formal approval in August, is the first of its kind in Louisiana and one of just a handful among law schools nationwide. “With 40 years of legal experience across the globe, Bob Sloan will bring a broad professional and international perspective to the LSU Energy Law Center,” Weiss says in a prepared statement. Sloan comes to LSU from Entergy Corp., where he was executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of the corporation in New Orleans. Learn more about the appointment at the center’s website here.
More for less: Women are attending college at higher rates than men, graduating in greater numbers and earning higher grades, The Washington Post reports. Yet one year after graduation, women were making only 82% of what their male colleagues were paid, according to a report by the American Association of University Women set to be released today. The AAUW researchers decided to look at workers when they are most similar—freshly done with their undergraduate studies, lacking vast experience and unlikely to have spouses or children. Read the full story here.
Today’s poll question: At your workplace, do you think women are being paid less than men for doing the same job?
