LSBA Board of Governors
President-Elect
Hon. Darrel James Papillion
2015-2016
500 Poydras St Rm C555
New Orleans, LA 70130
Phone: (504) 589-7540
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Darrel J. Papillion is a partner in the Baton Rouge firm of Walters, Papillion, Thomas, Cullens, L.L.C. He received a BA degree in 1990 from Louisiana State University and his JD degree in 1994 from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1994.
Darrel has served on the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Board of Governors as the Fifth District representative and as an at-large member. He is co-chair of the LSBA Continuing Legal Education Committee and a former chair of the Ethics Advisory Service. He also served several terms in the House of Delegates. He received the 2005 LSBA Young Lawyers Section’s Hon. Michaelle Pitard Wynne Professionalism Award.
He is an adjunct professor of law at LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He is the 2015 chair of the LSU Law Center Diversity Task Force and is a member of the Middle District of Louisiana Magistrate Selection Committee. He served as 2014 president of the Baton Rouge Bar Association and is a member of the Wex Malone American Inn of Court.
In his community, he serves on the Louisiana Public Broadcasting Foundation’s board of directors and was the 2013-14 president of the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge. He is a parishioner of St. George Catholic Church.
Darrel and his wife, Shirley, have been married for 23 years and are the parents of two children.