LSBA Board of Governors

President-Elect
Mr. Mark Aaron Cunningham

2014-15
201 Saint Charles Ave Fl 50
New Orleans, LA 70170
Phone: (504) 582-8536
Fax: (504) 589-8536

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Mark A. Cunningham is a partner in the New Orleans office of Jones Walker, L.L.P. He received a BA degree in 1989 from Claremont Colleges (Pitzer College), his JD degree in 1992 from Tulane Law School (senior managing editor, Tulane Law Review, 1992) and an LLM (Trade Regulation) degree in 1994 from New York University Law School. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1996. Before entering private practice, he clerked for United States District Court Judges Sarah S. Vance and Charles Schwartz, Jr..

Mark has served in several leadership positions for the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA), including treasurer, secretary, Louisiana Bar Journal editor and Executive Committee member. He also served on the Board of Governors and in the House of Delegates. He chaired the LSBA Lawyer Advertising Committee from 2000-04 and has served on the Committee on the Profession and the Client Assistance Fund Committee.

He serves on the boards of directors of the Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education, the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute and the New Orleans Bar Association. He chaired The Pro Bono Project (New Orleans) in 2009-10 and received the Project’s 2009 Leadership Award and the Project’s 2007 and 2008 Distinguished Service Award. He is a former board chair of WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped.

Mark and his wife, Meredith, have been married for 13 years and are the parents of three children.