Friends of French Officers and Directors

President

Shawn Braud 
French Teacher, Central High School

1st Vice-President

William Arceneaux

Former President, CODOFIL; Director Foundation for Excellence Louisiana Public Television. Founder La Foundation Louisiane

2nd Vice-President

Michael Vincent

Vice-President of CODOFIL;  Past President of Friends of French Studies

Secretary

Cathy Luquette

Retired Distinguished Instructor, Department of French Studies

Treasurer

Todd Jacob
Assistant to the Chair, Department of French Studies 

Immediate Past President

Dirk Benedict

Marketing Coordinator, LSU AgCenter Office of Intellectual Property and French Enthusiast

Ex-officio Directors

Rodolphe Sambou
Consul général de France à la Nouvelle-Orléans

Jeffrey Leichman 
Chair, LSU Department of French Studies

David Marcantel
President, CODOFIL

Voting Directors

Angélique Bergeron
Director, West Baton Rouge Museum, PhD in French Studies

Daniel Blanchard
Louisiana French Advocate and Enthusiast

Michele van den Bold-Braud
Retired World Languages Specialist, Louisiana Department of Education

David Cheramie
Former CEO, Bayou Vermilion District; former Executive Director of CODOFIL

Catherine Coates
Past President of Friends of French and French Enthusiast

Peggy Feehan
Executive Director, CODOFIL

Charles Gallagher
Retired Engineer and Accounting Professional, and French Enthusiast

Charly Genco
Realtor and French Enthusiast

Kirk Guidry
Attorney and French Enthusiast

Florent "Pon" Hardy
French Speaker and Francophile; former Director of the State Archives of Louisiana

Katelyn Knox
Phyllis M. Taylor Associate Professor, LSU Department of French Studies

Amanda LaFleur
Retired Professor, LSU Department of French Studies

Olivier Moréteau
Professor of Law at LSU; Director, LSU Civil Law Center; Russel B. Long Eminent Scholars Academic Chair; Société Louis Curet honoree

Mary Pollard
French Enthusiast; Société Louis Curet honoree


Allison Roark
French Instructor, LSU Department of French Studies

Susan Rolfs
Past President of Friends of French Studies and French Enthusiast
  
Adelaide Russo
Phyllis M. Taylor Professor, LSU Department of French Studies

Sandra Hubbard Sargent
Retired Teacher; Past President of Friends of French Studies and French Enthusiast

Babette Schlegel
Executive Director of Friends of Magnolia Mound Plantation

Walter Smith
Retired Attorney and French Enthusiast

Michael Wolf
Attorney and Francophile

Director Emeritus

Seola Arnaud Edwards 
The Woodlands, TX Originator & Facilitator of Ubaye Valley Summer Internship Program

Honorary Board Members 

Jeanne and David James, Baton Rouge, LA 
Daughter and Son-in-Law of Louis Curet

 

PAST PRESIDENTS

2025-present Shawn Braud
2024 Dirk Benedict
2022-2023 Sandra Hubbard Sargent
2020-2021 Susan Rolfs
2018-2019 Michael Vincent
2016-2017 Adelaide Russo
2015 Neil Ann Parks
2009-2014 Robert Lafayette
2007-2008 Catherine Coates
2006-2006 Jacqueline Labat
2001-2003 Lillie Petit Gallagher
1998-2001 Louis Curet