Walter C. Lee
| Walter Clyde Lee, Sr. | |
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| Member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education for District 4 (Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto, , Red River, Sabine, Vernon, Webster, and Winn parishes) | |
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In office March 1991 – December 12, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Dorothy Garrett Smith |
| Succeeded by | Mary Johnson Harris (interim) |
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| Born | October 5, 1934 |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Connie Faye Terral Lee |
| Children | Walter C. Lee, Jr. |
| Residence | Shreveport, Louisiana, USA |
| Alma mater | Missing |
| Occupation | Retired school superintendent |
Walter Clyde Lee, Sr. (born October 5, 1934), is the longest-tenured member of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. From March 1991 until December 12, 2014, he represented the BESE Fourth District, which encompasses ten parishes in northwestern Louisiana.
Lee is a former public school superintendent for both Caddo and DeSoto parishes. He is considered a non-traditional, innovative educational leader who had never taught in the classroom but used a businesslike approach in his jobs as superintendent. Lee implemented the first all-day pre-kindergarten program for at-risk four-year-olds in his state. In 1980, he established fifteen magnet schools in a system of seventy-six schools.
Lee holds undergraduate and master's degrees in business and has forty graduate credits in educational leadership. He is a former president of the Louisiana Association of School Business Officials, the Louisiana Superintendents Association, and the Louisiana Association of School Executives.
Lee and his wife, the former Connie Faye Terral (born December 3, 1941), have one son, Walter, Jr. (born 1964), of Conway, Arkansas.
Upon their deaths, Walter and Connie Lee will be interred at Prospect Cemetery in Florien in Sabine Parish.
Lee, who resides in Shreveport, won his seat on the BESE board in a special election on March 23, 1991, a contest called after the death in August 1990 of the Fourth District BESE member Dorothy Garrett Smith of Springhill in Webster Parish, who had also been the short-term BESE president. Lee won the seat outright with 15,161 votes (58.9 percent). Republican Sandra Worley Long trailed with 7,128 (27.7 percent), and a second Democrat, Eliot S. Knowles, Jr., held 3,460 votes (13.4 percent). Lee carried majorities or pluralities in all nine parishes. Later a tenth parish was added to the district. Lee was unopposed for his first full term on the BESE board in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 3, 1992
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