Mrs. Chris Weaver

Mrs. Chris Weaver of Baton Rouge is Executive Director of the Workforce Commission in Louisiana Governor’s Office. She earned an undergraduate degree in Marketing Education at NSU in 1967 and a graduate degree in Education in 1972. She did post-graduate work at NSU and North Texas State University. She was the Marketing Education Coordinator at Woodlawn High School and Principal of the Caddo Career Center and Woodlawn High School before being named Louisiana Assistant Superintendent of Vocational Education. She was Director of Vocational Education for the Louisiana Department of Education, then joined the Governor’s Office where she was Workforce Development Liaison/School-to-Work liaison before becoming Executive Director.

Recalling her most memorable teaching experience, she said, “I spent 13 happy years as a cooperative marketing teacher at Woodlawn High School in Shreveport. Working with students and employers, I saw my students mature, many of them continued on in their market jobs and became productive adults. Now one of my sons teaches and coaches many of their children at Southwood.”