Subjects: All Subjects

Clients

1) Acadian Ambulance and Air Med Services

2) Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

3) American Property Casualty Insurance Association

4) Bia Energy

5) Calpine Corporation

6) CenterPoint Energy

7) Chubb-North America

8) Cresent City Power Users Group

9) DentaQuest

10) East Baton Rouge Parish School System

11) Eatel

12) Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil)

13) Federal Property Registration Corp

14) Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting

15) Greater Ouachita Water Company

16) Herzing University

17) Hilcorp Energy Company

18) Housing Authority of New Orleans

19) Insurance Council of Louisiana

20) Liberty Mutual Group

21) Linde Gas and Equipment, Inc.

22) Louis Dreyfus Commodities LLC

23) Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel

24) Louisiana Energy Users Group (LEUG)

25) Louisiana Food Bank Association

26) Louisiana Legal Reform Coalition

27) Louisiana Probation and Parole Officiers Association

28) Louisiana State Nurses Association (LSNA)

29) Louisiana Telecommunications Assocation

30) LWCC

31) Macro Companies

32) Market Umbrella

33) Mississippi River Delta Coalition/Environmental Defense Fund

34) Motor Vehicle Protection Products Association

35) MTPCS, LLC d/b/a Cellular One

36) MultiState Associates, Inc.

37) NCCI

38) New Orleans Regional Transit Authority

39) New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board

40) NextEra Energy Inc

41) NRG Energy, Inc.

42) Nucor Steel Louisiana, LLC

43) Occidental Chemical Corporation

44) Occidental Energy Ventures

45) Paschall Strategic Communications

46) Pelican Institute for Public Policy

47) Reinsurance Association of America

48) ResCare, Inc.

49) Sisung Group

50) Southeastrans, Inc.

51) Southern Strategy Group of Louisiana, LLC

52) Southern University System Foundation

53) The MENTOR Network

54) The Millennia Companies

55) United Professionals Company, LLC

56) ValueShield, LLC

57) Verify4

58) Westlake Chemical

Number of Years as a Lobbyist

20+ years

Biography

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

Last Updated: November 14, 2024