LSBA Board of Governors

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Edward J. Walters, Jr. is a partner in the Baton Rouge firm of Walters, Thomas, Cullens, LLC. He received a BS in accounting in 1969 from Louisiana State University and his JD in 1975 from the LSU Law Center. Walters served as the LSBA secretary and editor-in-chief of the Louisiana Bar Journal in 2012-13, and has served on the Editorial Board. 

He and Michael A. Patterson have taught a course titled “Advanced Trial and Evidence” at the LSU Law Center for more than 30 years, and he has been a member of the faculty of the Law Center’s yearly Trial Advocacy Program since its inception 25 years ago. He was appointed by the Louisiana Supreme Court to serve as a member of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana from 2017-21, and served as its chair in 2020. Walters 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 the recipient of the Louisiana Bar Foundation’s 2025 Curtis R. Boisfontaine Trial Advocacy Award. 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. He is board certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. 

He is the author of the book Ipse Dixit: Ruminations on a Career at Law. 

Walters and his wife, Norma, have been married for 58 years and are the parents of two children. They have four grandchildren.