LSBA Board of Governors

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Julie Baxter Payer serves as executive counsel for the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs. She formerly served as deputy chief of staff for Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, senior communications advisor for the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office, staff counsel for the Louisiana Senate, and, prior to that, worked in private practice in Baton Rouge. 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.

For 14 years, Julie worked as a journalist in radio and television, receiving the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2001 for Investigative Reporting in Television.

She 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.

Julie 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 serves as board president for Rebuilding Together Baton Rouge, has previously served on the boards of The ARC Baton Rouge, the Baton Rouge Blues Foundation and the Capital City Rotary Club, and has volunteered as a mentor in public schools.