LSBA Board of Governors
Immediate Past President
Mr. Mark Aaron Cunningham
2016-2017
201 Saint Charles Ave Fl 50
New Orleans, LA 70170
Phone: (504) 582-8536
Fax: (504) 589-8536
Mark A. Cunningham is a partner with the Corporate Compliance and White Collar Defense Team in the New Orleans office of Jones Walker LLP. He received a BA degree in 1989 from Claremont Colleges (Pitzer College), his JD degree in 1992 from Tulane University 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 U.S. District Court Judges Sarah S. Vance and Charles Schwartz, Jr. He has been an adjunct professor of antitrust law at Loyola University College of Law since 2001.
Mark has served in several leadership positions for the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA), including president, president-elect, 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 (president, 2011-14), 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 has been annually recognized by other publications, including
Benchmark Litigation,
Super Lawyers and
The Best Lawyers in America.
Mark was appointed to the National Center for State Courts’ Lawyers Committee and to the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Post-Conviction Relief Ad Hoc Committee. He has edited the American Bar Association’s Trade Associations Committee newsletter since 2003 and has been an American Bar Foundation Fellow since 2011.
He is a former board chair of WRBH Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped and a former board member for the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.
Mark and his wife, Meredith, have been married for 16 years and are the parents of three children.