Walker Hines

Who is Walker Hines?

Walker Hines is a businessman from New Orleans, Louisiana, who served a single term in the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 95 in Orleans Parish, which was shifted to Livingston Parish beginning in 2012.

Elected in 2007 at the age of twenty-three, Hines is a former Democrat who turned Republican in November 2010. After indicating that he would not seek reelection to the House, Hines announced his candidacy for Louisiana Secretary of State in the October 22 nonpartisan blanket primary against incumbent, and ultimate victor, Republican Tom Schedler of St. Tammany Parish. Hines withdrew from the election three days after Louisiana House Speaker Jim Tucker announced he was running for the seat. Thereafter, Hines said that he would seek no office in 2011 but would return to elective politics at some time in the future.

The son of law firm Jones Walker Managing Partner Bill Hines and Mary Hines, Hines was born and reared in New Orleans. After attending Isidore Newman School, he graduated from Metairie Park Country Day School in Metairie in Jefferson Parish. He received the Bachelor of General Studies degree in 2007 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He then completed the three week Executive Education program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a financial analyst at Capital Investment Management, Inc., in New Orleans. He is also vice president of the sales company, Direct Digital Marketing, LLC.