LSBA Board of Governors

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C. Kevin Hayes is the owner of Hayes Strategic Solutions, L.L.C., a governmental relations and lobbying firm in Baton Rouge. He received a BA degree in 1987 from Louisiana State University and his JD degree in 1991 from Southern University Law Center. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 1992.

Kevin has served in the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) House of Delegates and is a member of the LSBA’s Bar Governance Committee. He received the LSBA Young Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award in 2001. He serves on the board for the Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education. In 2014, he was named a Fellow of the Louisiana Bar Foundation.

He served as 2008 president of the Baton Rouge Bar Association (BRBA), chaired the BRBA’s Young Lawyers Section in 1998 and received the BRBA’s Judge Keogh Memorial Award in 2002. He was the 2010 president of the Association of Louisiana Lobbyists and is a member of the State Capitol Group and the Supreme Court of Louisiana Historical Society. He was a member of the 2011 Leadership Louisiana class for the Council for a Better Louisiana. He was recognized by the Baton Rouge Business Report (40 Under 40) in 2001. In 2014, he was chosen as the Baton Rouge Government Relations Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America.

In his community, he is a member of the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber of Commerce and First Presbyterian Church.

Kevin is the father of two children.