Gov. Bobby Jindal has reappointed Michael Rooney and Willie Brown III of Harvey and John "Fenn" French of New Orleans to the Pilotage Fee Commission. The 12-member panel, with eight alternates, establishes fees and rates for pilotage services to ships and vessels on the Mississippi and Calcasieu rivers Rooney is president of the New Orleans Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots...
Gov. Bobby Jindal has reappointed Michael Rooney and Willie Brown III of Harvey and John "Fenn" French of New Orleans to the Pilotage Fee Commission. The 12-member panel, with eight alternates, establishes fees and rates for pilotage services to ships and vessels on the Mississippi and Calcasieu rivers
Rooney is president of the New Orleans Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Association and vice president of the Gulf Region for the American Pilots Association.
Brown is a captain and the secretary-treasurer of the New Orleans-Baton Rouge Steamship Pilots Association. He is an alternate member of the commission.
French is president of Jos. A. Bank clothiers and a member of the First NBC Bank board of directors.
Jindal also reappointed:
- Al Lippman of Morgan City, a lawyer at Lippman, Mahfouz, Tranchina & Thorguson.
- Anne Trappey of Baton Rouge, president and chief executive of Forte and Tablada, Inc. consulting engineering firm.