Baton Rouge Native Tommy Screen Named Assistant to the President for Government Relations

(New Orleans)— The Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J., president of Loyola University New Orleans, has appointed Baton Rouge native Tommy Screen to the newly created position of assistant to the president for government relations.

Prior to joining Loyola, Screen served as legislative correspondent and later as legislative assistant on the staff of former U.S. Senator John Breaux, working closely with the Department of Interior and the Department of Education. He also helped organize campaign rallies for Governor Kathleen Blanco during the 2003 campaign runoff.

Screen recently helped secure $3.8 million dollars in funding for Louisiana residents in the Energy & Water, Interior and Labor, Health & Human Services and Education appropriation bills.

The position will include city, state, and federal relations. Screen will look for funding opportunities for Loyola’s programs and monitor legislation and regulation affecting higher education. He will also work with the different professional organizations to which Loyola belongs.

Screen received a bachelor of arts in political science from Louisiana State University in 1997, and a juris doctor from the Paul M. Herbert Law Center at LSU in 2001.