Volunteers Who Have Kept AMTA-LA Thriving For Over 30 Years
Our historical data is up-to-date as of approximately 2014. If you have any information, including names, positions served, dates, and/or pictures you would like to share, please contact us using the form at the bottom of this page. It would be really great if we could add even more of our past volunteers. Thank you!
Louisiana Chapter Presidents
LaDusta “Dusty” Sonnier, President 2018 – 2022
Marie Humphries, President 2014 – 2018
Diane Navarre, 2012 – 2014
Allyson Johns, 2010 – 2012
Mary Donker-Syvertsen, 2006 – 2010
Becky Click-Rex, 2002 – 2006
Kathie Lea, 2000 – 2002
Board Members: Odd Years
Dawn MacDonald Hedgpeth, 2017 – 2019
Secretary
Candy Welch, 2018-2022
Lisa Bennett, 2016-2018
Dawn MacDonald Hedgpeth, 2012-2016
Marie Humphries, 2011-2012
Board Members: Even Years
Dawn MacDonald Hedgpeth, 2020 – 2022
Jennie Purvis, 2018 – 2022
LaDusta “Dusty” Sonnier, 2016 – 2018
Financial Administrator
Jenna Laitinen, 2020 – 2022
Dionne Maricelli, 2016 – 2019
Karen Boudreaux, 2015 – 2016
Melissa Hobson Pearson, 2013 – 2015
Awards Committee Chair
Dionne Maricelli, 2018 – 2020
LaDusta “Dusty” Sonnier, 2017
Kristi Nelson Waltrip, 2016
Community Outreach Team Chair
Diane Navarre, 2019 – 2020
Allyson Johns, 2016 – 2019
Dawn MacDonald Hedgpeth, 2016 Vice Chair
Convention Committee Member Chair
Jenna Laitinen, Convention Coordinator 2019 – 2020
Dawn MacDonald Hedgpeth, 2018
Education / Convention Registration Chair
Marie Humphries, Planning Committee, 2018 – 2020
Candy Welch, 2017 Co-Chair
Jenna Laitinen, 2017 Co-Chair
Melissa Brocato, 2016
Karen Boudreaux, 2016
Event Photographer
Lisa Bennett, 2017 – 2020
Government Relations Committee Chair
Kathie Lea, 2016 – 2020
Melissa Hobson Pearson, 2016
Membership Chair
Tyechia M. Gayfield, 2019 – 2020
Rene Chauvin, 2018
Jennie Purvis, 2017
Karen Boudreaux, 2016
Kristi Nelson Waltrip, 2016
Melissa Brocato
Marie Humphries, 2010
Newsletter Chair
Vacant, 2019 – 2020
Marie Humphries, 2018 – 2019
Brittany LaCombe, 2018
Candy Welch, 2017
Linda Strickland, 2016
Mary Donker-Syvertsen, 2016
Online Election Process Chair
Diane Navarre, 2019 – 2020
Allyson Johns, 2017 – 2018
Melissa Brocato, 2016
Social Media Chair
Vacant, 2019 – 2020
Brittany LaCombe, 2018
Jenna Laitinen, 2016 – 2017
Website Chair
Vacant, 2019 – 2020
Marie Humphries, 2018 – 2019
Brittany LaCombe, 2018
Candy Welch, 2017
Linda Strickland, 2016
Karen Boudreaux, 2015
Commission on Candidacy
Mary Alice Tingle, 2016
Vice President
Dawn Hedgpeth, 2015 – 2016 First VP
Mary Donker-Syvertsen, 2015 – 2016 Second VP
Kristi Nelson Waltrip, 2015 – 2016 Third VP
Jenna Laitinen, First VP 2014 – 2015
Mary Donker-Syvertsen, Second VP 2014 – 2015
Linda Strickland, Third VP 2014 – 2015
Public Relations Chair
Robin Alexander, 2016
Liaison to Board and LaBMT
Mary Alice Tingle, 2016
House of Delegates
As of 2017, the House of Delegates became the “Delegates to the Assembly of Delegates” (AOD). This resulted in the BOD voting to retain only one delegate and zero alternate delegates.
Linda Strickland, 2016
Melissa Brocato, 2016
Allyson Johns, 2016 First Alternate
Terry Hurd, 2016 Second Alternate
Diane Navarre, 2015 – 2016
Melissa Brocato, 2014 – 2015
Kristi Nelson Waltrip, 2015 First Alternate
Allyson Johns, 2015 Second Alternate