New Orleans Chamber names new board

3rd January 2012   ·   0 Comments

The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed William D. Aaron, Jr. as the newly elected 2012 Chairman of the Board of Directors. Aaron is a practicing attorney and managing shareholder of the law firm Aaron, PLC. Previously serving as Vice Chairman of the Board, this will be Mr. Aaron’s second three-year term as a re-elected board member.

New officers of the Board elected unanimously by the Chamber include William D. Aaron Jr., Chairman; G. Ben Johnson, President & CEO; D. Mark Singletary, Vice Chairman; Yvonne Mitchell-Grubb, Secretary; Fred Parker, Treasurer; and Patricia C. Denechaud, Past Chairman.

Eight new board members were also elected and include Mark E. Blanchard of New Orleans Cold Storage; Calvin Mackie of Mackie Enterprises; Alton K. McRee of Fidelity Homestead Savings Bank; Karen Rawls of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company; E. Paige Sensenbrenner of Adams & Reese Law Firm; Gary B. Silbert of Entergy New Orleans- Rod Teamer of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana; and Jimmie Woods of Metro Disposal, Inc.

Continuing New Orleans Chamber board members include William D. Aaron, Jr. of Aaron, PLC; Mullady Voelker Alford of Gifted Nurses; Loren Blanchard of Xavier University of Louisiana; Sheila B. Burns of Burns Management Group; Joseph C. Canizaro of First Trust Corporation, Steve S. Caputo of Hotel Monteleone; Lucy Chun of RE/MAX Commercial Brokers; Pat C. Denechaud of Crescent City Consultants; Cristina Fowler Chauvin of Fowler Rodriguez Valdes-Fauli; Melissa A. Gibbs of Gibbs Construction LLC; Michael P. Gnau of Lockheed Martin Space Systems; Yvonne Mitchell-Grubb of MG Consulting; Keith M. Hitchens of Gentilly Ridge Renaissance; Jennifer Keating Magee of Keating Magee Market­ing Communications; Gary P. LaGrange of Port of New Orleans; John Little of Interna­tional Matex Tank Terminals; Alden J. McDonald, Jr. of Liberty Bank and Trust; Charles W. Nelson of Waldemar S. Nelson and Com­pany; Fred Parker of New South Parking; E. Fredrick Preis, Jr. of Lemle & Kelleher; Steve Sawyer of Cox Louisiana; D. Mark Singletary of New Orleans CityBusiness; David B. St. Etienne of UTSI; Hasting Stewart of Shell Oil Company; Charles C. Teamer, Sr., First NBC Bank; Chris Todaro of Folgers Coffee; Michael Tubbs of Bowen, Miclette & Brit, Joel Vilmenay of WDSU; James M. Williams of Gauthier, Houghtaling and Williams; and Maggie V. Woodruff of Regional Planning Commission.

The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce was founded in 2003 to provide chamber members with the opportunity to build mutually beneficial business partnerships within the City of New Orleans and the metro area.

This article was originally published in the January 2, 2012 edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper