LSBA Board of Governors
Fifth Board District
Mr. Edward J Walters Jr
2016-2019
12345 Perkins Rd Bldg 1
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
Phone: (225) 236-3636
Fax: (225) 236-3650
Edward J. Walters, Jr. is a partner in the Baton Rouge firm of Walters, Papillion, Thomas, Cullens, L.L.C. He received a BS degree in accounting in 1969 from Louisiana State University and his JD degree in 1975 from LSU Law School.
Ed served as Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) secretary and editor of the
Louisiana Bar Journal in 2012-13. He continues to serve on the
Louisiana Bar Journal Editorial Board. He is currently chair of the LSBA’s Senior Lawyers Division and is a former member of the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee. He is currently a member of the Louisiana Judiciary Commission.
He has been the editor of the Baton Rouge Bar Association’s monthly publication,
The Baton Rouge Lawyer, since its first issue in 1985. He received the LSU Law Center’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2015, the LSBA’s President’s Award in 2011, the Louisiana Bar Foundation’s Distinguished Attorney Award in 2008 and the Baton Rouge Bar Association’s President’s Award in 1995, 1998 and 2014. He is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the LSU Law Center Board of Trustees.
Ed and his wife Norma have been married for 49 years and are the parents of two children.