
Rodney Braxton serves as the President of Southern Strategy Group, a governmental affairs firm. He previously served as Assistant Chief of Staff to former Governor Murphy J. “Mike” Foster, an Associate Commissioner of Governmental Relations for the Louisiana Board of Regents, Undersecretary of the Louisiana Department of Labor, and the first Executive Director of the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights. Currently, Braxton serves as Parliamentarian of the Malcolm Jenkins Foundation and as the Chair of the Young Leaders Academy. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in finance from the University of New Orleans and a J.D. from Tulane University Law School.