BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Michael Mancuso, President

Michael Mancuso represents developers in a wide variety of real estate transactions, including the acquisition, ownership, and development of multifamily rental projects, residential and commercial condominiums, hotels, retail, office, warehouse and industrial buildings, and mixed use developments. Additionally, he counsels clients in real estate transactions using a variety of financing sources, including federal tax incentives such as the Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, façade donations, and mixed public/private financing, and loan programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae. He negotiates and documents a variety of commercial and residential lease transactions, entity formation, construction contract, and governmental approvals. Michael is a licensed title agent of First American Title Insurance Company, Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Corporation, and Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, and is President of the title insurance agency, St. Charles Title Corporation, affiliated with the Elkins law firm. He has examined titles and issued title insurance policies having a total amount of insurance over $900,000,000.00. Michael joined Elkins, PLC in 1997. Prior to joining Elkins, PLC, Michael served as a clerk for the Louisiana Supreme Court. 

Anthony “Tony” Marino, 1st Vice President 

Anthony Marino is a shareholder in the firm Slattery, Marino & Roberts. His work involves a wide range of energy related transactions. He concentrates his practice generally in mineral title examination, the acquisition and divestiture of mineral properties, regulatory matters relating to onshore leases and offshore leases, including state waters and federal waters on the Outer Continental Shelf, and energy related financing transactions involving the negotiation and performance of exploration, development, operating and joint venture agreements. Mr. Marino has represented numerous energy producing companies before the State of Louisiana, Office of Mineral Resources, State Mineral and Energy Board, Office of Conservation and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, (formerly known as the Minerals Management Service) in the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska OCS Regions, Department of the Interior, Interior Board of Land Appeals, and other regulatory agencies concerning a variety of matters such as plugging and abandonment liability, bonding, oil spill financial responsibility, royalty valuation, royalty relief, incidents of non-compliance, unitization, unit agreements and commingling agreements, gas sales, processing and marketing agreements, production handling agreements, onshore and offshore facilities use agreements, rights-of-way, pipelines, servitudes, surface and subsurface agreements. He was formerly with the law firm of Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Duplantis. 

William, “Bill” Barry, Jr., 2nd Vice President 

Drawing on over thirty-five years of diverse architectural and planning experience, Bill Barry offers strategic thinking and creative planning for the successful revitalization, restoration and management of historic structures. His consulting practice Heritage Planning & Design advises building owners and sometimes their architects and builders on how to confidently engage built heritage. He is successful at balancing creative conviction with respect, reconciling the ideal with the practical and integrating the new with the old. Bill is a native of New Orleans and a graduate of Tulane University School of Architecture. After over thirty years of practice in the Boston area, he has returned to Louisiana, and is now a resident of Mandeville, where he serves on the Historic Preservation District Commission. 

Louise Saenz, Treasurer

Louise is a seventh generation New Orleanian who has worked in the New Orleans nonprofit sector for 27 years. After earning a degree in anthropology from Newcomb, she began her career as a field archaeologist, working on several Louisiana plantation excavation sites. She quickly moved on to historic preservation and spent 11 years with Save Our Cemeteries, serving for eight years as Executive Director advocating, locally and regionally, for the preservation of these essential iconic cemeteries. 

She began working as an independent consultant in 2007, where she has coordinated a broad range of fundraising events, festivals and conferences as well as providing grant writing services. Her clients have included the Ruby Bridges Foundation, Tulane School of Architecture, the Wooden Boat Festival, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, Tales of the Cocktail, the New Orleans Children’s Book Festival, Tulane School of Science and Engineering, French Quarter Citizens and the NOLA VFW. With decades of experience in management, development, organization, and event planning, the positive impact of her work has benefited numerous nonprofit, educational, and cultural institutions in Louisiana and the Greater New Orleans area. Louise is currently Director of the Lakeview Shepherd Center while continuing her consulting work. She and her husband, Ruben have three children, a son and two daughters. She cherishes family tradition and has a personal love for genealogical research. She was selected as a member of Women of the Storm following Hurricane Katrina and the BP Oil spill. She has been honored with the Newcomb College Outstanding Alumnae Award and was recognized by Gambit Weekly as one of New Orleans’ “40 Under 40.” She also served as a Governor appointee on the Louisiana State Cemetery Board for 8 years. 

Susan Couvillon, Assistant Treasurer 

Susan has worked as the Manager of The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation from 1997 to 2020 when she retired. During this time she oversaw $800,000 to $1,000,000 in grants per year, a wonderful and daunting task. Prior to this, she was a freelance interior decorator and mother of five children, now grown with children of their own – 13 to be exact. During this time, she was known as the Zoning Czar for the Upper Audubon Society for many years. Their neighborhood lost many battles, most notably championing the opinion that a major zoo attraction did not belong in a quiet neighborhood with little to no access to the public, but should be relocated to an area of the city that needed revitalization. She has served a steward to two century-old houses helping to save them for future lovers of architecture from the past. She began her work with Louisiana Landmarks Society in the 80s when Bill Patts asked her to chair the annual Christmas Tour of Plantation homes along with small dinner parties in and around the Pitot House to raise a few dollars and provide glimpses into the bayou-front home. Years later, she was asked to get involved with the finances of the Society by Lyn Tomlinson. This was the period when LLS transitioned from a tiny office staff with volunteer administrators to hiring a professional director. 

Keith Hardie, Recording Secretary 

Keith Hardie, a New Orleans native, is a civic advocate, preservationist and practicing attorney. Keith holds a PhD. in Literature from the University of Oregon and a law degree from LSU. A long-time member and former chairman of the Advocacy Committee of Louisiana Landmarks, Keith has also served several other organizations, including Parks for All, Save Audubon Park, and the Maple Area Residents, which he also served as president. His support and hard work on behalf of preserving public parks has been a hallmark of his career, along with his drafting of zoning legislation and his zealous representation of the broad public interest in numerous lawsuits seeking to prevent commercialization of residential neighborhoods and to protect historic landmarks. Keith has long been a consistent, reliable, generous and important contributor to parks advocacy, historic preservation and neighborhood protection in New Orleans and seeks to continue his valued service with Louisiana Landmarks. 

Edward “Ed” Deano 

Edward Deano Jr. is a lifelong resident of Mandeville, Louisiana. For almost 50 years he has been active in environmental and preservation efforts in St. Tammany Parish. In 1977 he helped lead the fight to save the historic Oak Grove at Chinchuba, where Adrian Rouquette, America’s first native missionary, preached. The grove was destroyed, despite assurances to the contrary, by the Louisiana Department of Transportation, on Mardi Gras morning in 1977. Quickly thereafter, political jurisdictions in St. Tammany Parish commenced to adopt tree ordinances. Today every city in the parish and the parish itself has adopted a tree ordinance which protects live oak trees. The following year he was a leader in the opposition to removing the Saint Tammany Parish courthouse from Covington, the parish seat for 160 years. This move would have devastated the historic Covington downtown and would have accelerated the suburban sprawl in the area of the proposed new site. The measure was defeated at the polls despite its being supported by virtually every political figure and business organization. 

Margot Hammond 

Margot is a lifelong resident of New Orleans. Margot was an Attorney Supervisor with the Mental Health Advocacy Service until she retired in June of 2011. Margot graduated from Southeastern La. University with a B.A. She received a M.S. in Recreation Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1984, she received her J.D. from Loyola University School of Law. She has served on La. State Bar Association committees and a Louisiana Law Institute committee. Margot has been a volunteer docent for the Historic New Orleans Collection since 2012. She has worked with the Landmarks Society on multiple committees and events including the Fete du Jardin, Vino on the Bayou and the Education Committee. Margot has been a Pitot House docent for many events, especially the school tours. 

Ouida Laudumiey 

A native New Orleanian, Ouida Laudumiey has been involved with historic preservation and restoration throughout her life. She is a board member of Felicity Redevelopment, Inc. and has been involved for many years with the organization including fundraising and assisting in the mission of buying and selling historic properties to revitalize the Lower St. Charles Corridor. Her mother, Louise Martin, was a Harnett Kane award winner in 2003, and she instilled her love of historic preservation in all of her children. Ouida has a BA in History from Smith College and an MBA from Tulane University. She currently works as a residential real estate agent with Hill Riddle & Associates. She lives in Uptown with her husband and 2 children and is involved in local neighborhood issues and is the Vice President of the Upper Hurstville Residents Association and Security District. 

Michael Reid 

Originally from Chicago, Michael is a seasoned architect. Michael’s journey began many years ago, near the Chicago land area, when he first started to play with K/NEX as a 12 year old boy. He began to realize the limitless possibilities design and building held; from then on, he set out to become an architect. After receiving his Associate’s degree from the College of Lake County in a year, Michael attended architecture classes at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree, followed by a Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Louisiana. While attending graduate school, he worked for several firms in the Lafayette area and upon graduation, began to work for Barry Fox. At Barry Fox and Associates, Michael handled jobs as large as 10 million dollars in construction value and learned the art of historic preservation after being taken under Mr. Fox’s wing. 

Currently, Michael runs Classical Roots Architecture with his wife Gretchen. Providing architectural services to the Greater New Orleans area, they specialize in residential design with an updated approach to classical and traditional architecture. Their unique ability to render historic detailing by utilizing modern 3-d visualization technology sets them apart. Through his extensive knowledge of technical details, Michael is able to envision creative solutions and efficient solutions with ease. 

Lloyd “Sonny” Shields 

A member of the firm Shields Law Partners, L.L.P., Sonny Shields has over 40 years of experience in construction industry contracts and litigation; constitutional law; surety law (construction contract bonds); insurance defense (including architects' and engineers' errors and omissions coverage); products liability; zoning and planning law and practice, and historic commission matters, including administrative hearings; real estate title research; patent, trademark and copyright prosecution and litigation; and general litigation, including appeals. 

Mr. Shields has served on the national board of directors of the American Arbitration Association, as the head of its Louisiana construction industry panel and as a member of its panel of arbitrators (including its limited list of arbitrators for its Large, Complex Case Program). He was a member of the Louisiana Supreme Court committee to establish the Civil District Court pilot mediation program. For over 30 years he has been an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School on the subject of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure and for nearly 30 at Tulane Law School on the subject of Historic Preservation Law. He has delivered more than 200 papers on subjects ranging from arbitration, negotiation and mediation skills and practices, to numerous aspects of construction and surety law, in Louisiana and elsewhere. He served as board president of the Preservation Resource Center for several terms and as chairman of the New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission. 

Peter M. Wolf 

Peter Wolf, a graduate of Yale (BA), Tulane (MA), and New York University’s Institute of Fine Art (PhD), and a New Orleans native, is a professional planner, urbanists, preservationists, and urban policy authority. He is founder and first chairman of The Thomas Moran Trust, Chairman of the Godchaux Reserve House Fund, and a trustee of the Village Preservation Society in East Hampton, New York. He has authored award winning books on land use, planning and preservation and served as a consultant to towns and cities as well as corporations and private owners of sensitive lands. 

James G. Derbes

BBA, Tulane University, 1967, JD,  Tulane University School of Law, 1968; Practicing Louisiana lawyer 1968 – 2024; former Instructor in Historic Preservation Law, University of New Orleans; elected delegate to the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1973-74; former owner and publisher, Vieux Carre Courier weekly newspaper (1970-73); counsel for the French Quarter Residents Association (1970) in a successful effort to stop the installation of a Sound & Light Show in Jackson Square; counsel for the Bayou St. John Improvement Association in a successful effort to stop the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers from allowing the Orleans Levee Board to fill in the mouth of Bayou St. John; counsel for the Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents & Associates, Inc., in unsuccessful efforts to stop the construction of Canal Place (1981 ) and the Riverfront Aquarium (1988) in the Vieux Carre National Historic Landmark District; former President of Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents & Associates, Inc.; former President of Louisiana Landmarks Society; recipient of the Honor Award for Residential Rehabilitation from the Historic Districts Landmarks Commission (1985) for the restoration of the Benachi-Torre-Derbes House (now the Derbes Mansion); and recipient of the Harnett T. Kane Award (1997) of the Louisiana Landmarks Society; currently a “Walking Tour Guide in the French Quarter,” for the Friends of the Cabildo, and the author of “Preservation Chronicles” for the French Quarter Journal. 

Jessica D. Knox

Jessica has had a rewarding career as a long-term public servant by working for distinguished national nonprofit organizations and community organizations. After leading an accomplished career in Washington, DC, Jessica had a strong desire to return to her southern roots. Because of her love for historic architecture and culture, she settled with her husband, Alonzo, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has been instrumental in serving her community as a former staff attorney of Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland, a program manager for the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI), and as a program manager for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Jessica is a graduate of Howard University School of Law and Tougaloo College as a Political Science major. She has served as the President of the Historic Faubourg Treme Association, chair of Friends of Lafitte Greenway, secretary of Friends of Treme Culture and two terms as a board member of the Preservation Resource Center. She currently serves as the Director of Strategic Planning for the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) where she drafts policies and procedures, strategic plans, and annual reports as well as develop grant proposals to support HANO’s mission of providing safe affordable housing.

James (Jim) Goodwin

Jim is the son of a USCG Search & Rescue Aviation Captain, so he lived throughout the coastal US, Puerto Rico and Newfoundland until his father retired and moved to Algiers to work for Petroleum Helicopters.  Jim graduated from John McDonogh High School and Tulane University.  Jim has been married for 53 years to Gayle, who was a Newcomb graduate and a Watson Fellow, so they spent a year in England studying theater and medieval arts after marrying.  Upon their return, Jim worked as Technical Director at the Beverly Dinner Playhouse before starting a construction career, in which he advanced to corporate Material Director overseeing many multi-Billion dollar projects; their scope included Petrochemical, Power, Marine, Mining and USG Commercial, including three projects with TICs over $9B each.  Project locations included the Gulf Coast, the West Coast, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Newfoundland, Alberta Canada, and Mongolia (based in Beijing). In New Orleans, he has lived in many historic districts, including the Lower Garden District, Carrollton, Uptown, the Garden District, and the American Can building in Mid-City.  During his travels, he has lived in numerous other historic districts, including San Antonio’s King William District, Cincinnati’s Mariemont Village, and Frederick Maryland’s Historic District.  Upon retirement, he and Gayle moved to Algiers Point, where they purchased a cottage built in 1900.

Jim is a past President and current Board Member of the Algiers Point Association, member of Friends of the Algiers Courthouse, Friends of the Ferry, the Algiers Historic Society and SOUL (Save Our Urban Landscape).  

Celeste Marshall

Celeste Marshall has been a Realtor since 2013 and joined Rêve Realtors in 2018. As a Historic Home Specialist, she is knowledgeable about the neighborhoods and architecture of the City as well as the suburbs and has a special niche handling tax sale properties. Before becoming a Realtor, Celeste was a commercial photographer and traveled the globe taking pictures of weddings, high-end hotels, and resorts. She was awarded Rookie of the Year in 2013 and has remained a Top Producer throughout her career. Celeste is a champion for art and education in the city, and is on the board of the NOMA Volunteer Committee. In the past she has served on the boards of NOCCA, New Orleans Botanical Gardens and on many fundraising committees.⁠

Brian G. Luckett

Brian has been a resident of New Orleans since 1983 and of Bywater since 1995. He received bachelor's, Masters and Doctorate degrees from Tulane University where he is currently employed as data scientist in public health. His commitment to preservation is evidenced by the blighted home he has renovated single-handedly over the past almost 30 years. He’s an avid bicyclist, motorcyclist, percussionist, gardener and carpenter.

Louis W. McFaul 

Louis was an active member of the Louisiana Landmarks Board for six years serving as both Assistant Treasurer and Treasurer and on other committees.  He has a BA in Art History and an MBA from Tulane University.   Louis retired as Vice-President from JPMorgan Chase Bank in New Orleans.  Prior to mergers he was also six years at First Commerce Corporation’s affiliate Rapides Bank in Alexandria, Louisiana heading the internal audit area.  While there he was on the Board of the River Oaks Square Arts Center.  Louis is now actively involved in the local Chapter Sons of the American Revolution as Treasurer and organizes all SAR lunches and dinners for the group.  Louis is also on the Board of Balize Lands Inc. and an active member of the Orleans Audubon Society.  He and his wife, Adrienne, enjoy perusing art galleries and auction houses and traveling especially to California to see grandchildren.