LSBA Board of Governors

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Julie Baxter Payer is deputy chief of staff for communications/legal/special projects for Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards. She formerly served as senior communications advisor for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office and as staff counsel for the Louisiana Senate. After earning a BA degree in broadcast journalism in 1993, she earned her JD/BCL degree in 2005 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center. She was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 2005.

Julie is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) House of Delegates, co-chairs the Public Information Committee and serves on the Summer School CLE Committee. She also served on the LSBA’s Legislation Committee from 2008-11. She is a member of the Baton Rouge Bar Association and the Wex Malone American Inn of Court.

She received the Edward R. Murrow Award for television investigative reporting, is a Distinguished Academy Fellow with the Academy of Applied Politics in the LSU Manship School of Mass Communications, and was named one of the “Top 40 Under 40” by the Baton Rouge Business Report in 2004.

In her community, she is board president for both Rebuilding Together Baton Rouge and The ARC Baton Rouge. She has volunteered as a mentor in public schools. She is the founding chair of the Tiffany Circle Society of Women Leaders and previously served on the boards of the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation, Yelp! Baton Rouge and the Capital City Rotary Club.