LSBA Board of Governors

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Graham H. Ryan is a partner in the New Orleans office of Jones Walker LLP, where he litigates complex commercial disputes in all stages of litigation, appeals, arbitration and regulatory proceedings. He advises clients in the technology, banking, energy, construction and healthcare industries in developing and executing litigation strategies designed to achieve client business objectives. He is nationally recognized in artificial intelligence (AI) law and Section 230, having been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Digest, featured in the Wall Street Journal and designated as an AI Governance Professional by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

He graduated, summa cum laude, in business finance from Louisiana State University, received his law degree from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center (Louisiana Law Review), and is an alumnus of the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. Before joining Jones Walker, he served as a judicial extern for the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Ryan has served on the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) Board of Governors (2021-22) and the LSBA Young Lawyers Division’s (YLD) Council (2015-23), also serving as chair of the LSBA YLD (2021-22) and as the delegate to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) House of Delegates (2019-20). He was a member of the 2014-15 Leadership LSBA Class. He received the LSBA YLD Chair’s Award in 2016 and 2018 and was named as a 2017 Louisiana Bar Foundation Fellow for his role in leading various access-to-justice initiatives. He has served on the LSBA’s Access to Justice Committee, MCLE Committee and CLE Committee, and was a council member for the Louisiana State Law Institute and a board member for the Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education. 

He was named to the 2020 Leadership in Law Class by New Orleans CityBusiness and to the 2018 “40 Under 40” Class by Gambit Weekly. In 2018, he was honored by the ABA as a “Top 40 Young Lawyer” nationally. He also was named a Fellow of the Loyola Institute of Politics and is a graduate of Leadership Louisiana and the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute.

In his community, Ryan is president of the Lakeview Crime Prevention District and a board member of Lakeview Civic. He is a former chair of HandsOn New Orleans, a nonprofit volunteer center founded after Hurricane Katrina that engaged more than 60,000 volunteers to rebuild south Louisiana. He serves on the United Way Campaign Cabinet. He is an attorney volunteer and board member of the Pro Bono Project.

Ryan and his wife Erin are the parents of two boys.