Audubon Commission
The Commission is, in effect, a board of trustees. Appointed to a six-year term by the Mayor with the consent of the City Council, the Commission is composed of 24 registered voters of the City of New Orleans. It retains all authority granted to it by Louisiana State Act No.191 of 1914. It has specific authority to approve and control design and development of its projects. All monies from bond or tax revenues, approved by the voters of New Orleans for the Audubon Commission, are administered by the Commission. Title to all improvements, furnishings and equipment at the facilities remains in the name of the City of New Orleans via the Audubon Commission.
J. Kelly Duncan
J. Kelly Duncan
J. Kelly Duncan is a partner in Jones Walker’s Admiralty & Maritime Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors.
Daniel O. Conwill IV
Daniel O. Conwill IV
Daniel O. Conwill IV is the Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO and manages the Investment Banking group at Global Hunter Securities, LLC.
Boysie Bollinger
Boysie Bollinger
Donald T. “Boysie” Bollinger is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bollinger Shipyards, Inc., a family-owned business established in 1946.
Linda G. Baum
Linda G. Baum
Linda Baum is a longtime supporter of Audubon Nature Institute, and has many fond memories visiting the Zoo as a little girl. Her mother is a past member of the Audubon Commission.
D. Brent Wood
D. Brent Wood
Mr. Brent Wood is Government Affairs Regional Manager for Chevron Corporation’s Policy, Government and Public Affairs.
Gayle Benson
Gayle Benson
Gayle Benson, a native of New Orleans and the wife of New Orleans Saints Owner Tom Benson, is an accomplished business professional and philanthropist with strong ties to the local community.
Storey Charbonnet
Storey Charbonnet
Story Charbonnet earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia. He worked in the Corporate Finance Department at the Robinson-Humphrey Company in Atlanta until 1995.
Leila Eames
Leila Eames
Leila Jacobs Eames was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the wife of 46 years to Louis Lester Eames and the mother of two children, Endya Eames Delpit and Brandon Jacobs Eames.
Frances Fayard
Frances Fayard
Frances Gray Fayard is a social activist and a philanthropist. Frances served in the Clinton Administration from 1992-1996.
Ludovico Feoli
Ludovico Feoli
Ludovico Feoli is an Audubon Commission member.
Ashley Francis
Ashley Francis
Ashley Francis is a Visiting Assistant Professor for Marketing & Management at Loyola University.
Deborah D. Harkins
Deborah D. Harkins
Deborah Duplechin Harkins is a member in McGlinchey Stafford's New Orleans office. She focuses her practice on regulatory and legislative affairs on behalf of business and government clients.
Bruce R. Hoefer, Jr.
Bruce R. Hoefer, Jr.
A native of New Orleans, Bruce R. Hoefer, Jr. is an attorney with Adams Hoefer Holwadel, LLC in New Orleans and a founding board member for Reconcile New Orleans, Inc.
Beth Lambert
Beth Lambert
A native New Orleanian, Beth Lambert studied art at LSU, Tulane and the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art.
Olivia Manning
Olivia Manning
Olivia Williams Manning is considered the First Family of Football’s Leading Lady by her marriage to former Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning and mother to sons Cooper, an investment firm partner, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton and New York Giants quarterback Eli.
Catherine Morrell
Catherine Morrell
Catherine Mielke Morrell is a former teacher, who has a passion for improving the lives children. She is a student working towards obtaining a graduate degree to work with special needs kids.
Field Ogden, MD
Field Ogden, MD
Field Ogden is a lifelong New Orleanian. He graduated from Isidore Newman High School and Harvard College.
Coleman D. Ridley, Jr.
Coleman D. Ridley, Jr.
Coleman D. Ridley, Jr. is a native of Newport News, Virginia and the managing director of the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region.
Pamela Ryan
Pamela Ryan
Pamela Ryan is community leader in New Orleans. She is a retired gift shop owner and interior designer.
Norma Jane Sabiston
Norma Jane Sabiston
Norma Jane Sabiston is president of Sabiston Consultants.
Ravi Sangisetty
Ravi Sangisetty
Ravi Sangisetty is a graduate of the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU (’06) and of Princeton University (’03).
Charles C. Teamer, Sr.
Charles C. Teamer, Sr.
Dr. Charles C. Teamer, Sr., a distinguished business and civic leader, is Vice Chairman of the Board of First NBC Bank.
Carol B. Wise
Carol B. Wise
Carol B. Wise is a former Regional Marketing Director and has served as President of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, and Chair of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce.
Audubon Commission 2018 Meeting Dates:
Thursday, January 18—4:00pm Postponed due to weather
Tuesday, January 23—4:00pm
Zoo/President's Room
Thursday, April 26—4:00pm
Zoo/President's Room
Wednesday, June 27—5:30pm
Zoo/Audubon Tea Room
Thursday, October 25—12noon
Aquarium/Conference Room
