225-381-0166
543 SPANISH TOWN RD, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70802, 
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1) Acadian Ambulance and Air Med Services
2) Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
3) American Property Casualty Insurance Association
4) Bia Energy
10) Cresent City Power Users Group
11) DentaQuest
12) East Baton Rouge Parish School System
13) Eatel
15) Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil)
16) Federal Property Registration Corp
17) Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting
18) Greater Ouachita Water Company
21) Housing Authority of New Orleans
23) Linde Gas and Equipment, Inc.
24) Louis Dreyfus Commodities LLC
25) Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
26) Louisiana Association of Health Underwriters
27) Louisiana Energy Users Group (LEUG)
28) Louisiana Food Bank Association
29) Louisiana Legal Reform Coalition
32) Louisiana Telecommunications Assocation
33) LWCC
34) Macro Companies
35) Market Umbrella
36) Mississippi River Delta Coalition/Environmental Defense Fund
37) Motor Vehicle Protection Products Association
38) MTPCS, LLC d/b/a Cellular One
39) MultiState Associates, Inc.
40) NCCI
41) New Orleans Regional Transit Authority
42) New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board
44) NRG Energy, Inc.
45) Nucor Steel Louisiana, LLC
46) Occidental Chemical Corporation
47) Occidental Energy Ventures
48) Paschall Strategic Communications
49) Pelican Institute for Public Policy
51) Reinsurance Association of America
52) ResCare, Inc.
53) Sisung Group
55) Southern Strategy Group of Louisiana, LLC
56) Southern University System Foundation
59) United Professionals Company, LLC
60) ValueShield, LLC
61) Verify4
20+ years
Kevin E. Cunningham is a partner with Southern Strategy Group-Louisiana one of the preeminent Governmental Relations firms operating in the state.
He joined the firm 2009 and represents a varied client base before the legislature, federal and state agencies, local government etc. Having developed an expertise in property and casualty insurance law, Kevin was recently selected by the State Commissioner of Insurance to serve on the High Auto Insurance Rates Task Force, which is developing legislative and regulatory solutions to combat this growing problem. In addition, he serves as an active member of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry's Civil Justice Reform Advisory Council, to which he is also a past Chairman.
Prior to joining SSG, Kevin was a partner with Roedel Parsons Koch Blache Balhoff & McCollister, where he served on the firm's Executive Management Committee. From 1996 to 2001 he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Mike Foster, where he oversaw the $14 million dollar Urban and Rural Grant Program. In addition to other duties, he also chaired both the Transportation Infrastructure Model for Economic Development (TIMED) Task Force, which resulted in much needed infrastructure development and the Louisiana Task Force for the Reduction of Automobile Insurance Rates, which brought about significant insurance rate and civil justice reforms.
An avid tennis player, Kevin is the past President of the Greater Baton Rouge Community Tennis Association, where he oversaw the return of a challenger series tennis tournament to the City and a resumption of a grade school -- Introduction to Tennis -- program. During his tenure he also increased participation in the world-class Cajun Classic Wheelchair Tennis Tournament, which attracts top professional and amateur wheelchair players from throughout the world. Recently he was asked to serve on the Board of Directors for Metro YMCA. Other past civic involvement includes the Council for Judicial Excellence and a member of Kiwanis International.
The son of retired army officer and an educator who also served as an administrator with the State Department of Education, Kevin was born in Wurzburg Germany and graduated high school in Seoul Korea. He received his Juris Doctorate from Southern University Law Center in 1985, where he was a member of the Southern University Moot Court Board (1984-1985) and Law Review candidate. While at Southern he was honored with the American Jurisprudence 2nd Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Corporations. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems from Old Dominion University in Norfolk VA, in 1982. Kevin is married to Helena R. Cunningham, also an attorney, CPA and affordable housing developer. They have two children, Kevin Jr., an attorney working in Baton Rouge and Sydne, a second-year law student at Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans