Consulting leadership: Baton Rouge-based Emergent Method, a management consulting firm, today announced that Rowdy Gaudet has joined the firm’s senior leadership team. Gaudet will serve as managing director, responsible for expanding the firm’s strategic and crisis communication, community resilience and disaster recovery practices. Gaudet joins Emergent Method after most recently serving as assistant chief administrative officer to East Baton Rouge Parish President Sharon Weston Broome.
New session begins: Wrapping up a shortened regular session interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, Louisiana lawmakers last night handed business groups the limits on car wreck lawsuits that they’ve sought for years while punting completion of next year’s budget to another session, WBRZ-TV reports. The House and Senate opened a 30-day special session immediately after adjourning the regular one, to finish work on a $30 billion-plus spending plan for the financial year that begins July 1 and to consider tax breaks for businesses struggling amid the virus outbreak. Read the full story.
It’s official: Louisiana’s new state education superintendent will start the job June 8 after receiving confirmation Monday from state senators. Cade Brumley, who has worked as superintendent of Jefferson Parish schools, was selected last month by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to oversee public schools statewide. The Louisiana Senate approved his hiring Monday in a list of appointees, with no public discussion, after a closed-door review of all the confirmation requests. Read the full story.
