Lo Walker

Who is Lo Walker?

Lorenz James Walker, also known as Lo Walker, is the Republican mayor of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana.

At seventy-five, the self-described "workaholic" Walker, ran unopposed for a second four-year term in the April 4, 2009, municipal elections in Bossier City, the largest city in Bossier Parish, located east of the Red River from Shreveport. "Of course, I'm pleased. To me, it's an indication that the majority of the population is happy" with the mayor and city council, Walker told Shreveport Times on learning that he had procured no opposition for reelection.

Walker outlined his goals as follows:

⁕Maintaining public safety, which the hiring of six new police dispatchers

⁕Completing the Cyber Innovation Center, the $100 million hi-tech park under construction near Bossier Parish Community College

⁕Expansion of the Arthur Ray Teague Parkway along the Red River.

Walker noted that Bossier City was ranked by Business Week magazine in 2008 as "one of the best places in America to raise a child."

Walker was born in Shreveport, where he graduated in 1951 from Fair Park High School. In 1952, he enrolled at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, from which he graduated in 1956 as the "Outstanding Business School Graduate". Through Reserve Officer Training Corps at Louisiana Tech, Walker was commissioned an officer in the United States Air Force. He served for thirty years in the military, including two tours of duty during the Vietnam War at Bien Hoa and Nha Trang air bases. Walker retired in 1986 with the rank of colonel. Walker first considered himself a Bossier City resident as early as 1968, and after mandatory military moves, including a stint in California, he returned to Bossier City permanently in 1980. While in the military, he received a Master of Business Administration degree in 1970 from Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.