Marc Morial
Marc Haydel Morial is an American political and civic leader and the current president of the National Urban League. Morial served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002 as the city's youngest Mayor, President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2001, and as a Louisiana State Senator from 1992 to 1994. Morial was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 and receiving his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1983, he began his career as a lawyer in New Orleans and in 1985 he established a private law practice there. In 2021, Harvard University published a case study, profiling Morial, called "Embracing the Uphill Struggle: Marc Morial’s Quest for Corporate Diversity". Early life and education Marc Morial was born to Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial and Sybil (Haydel) Morial, an elementary school teacher, Xavier University of New Orleans dean and civic activist. He is the second of five children. He was raised in Pontchartrain Park, a subdivision of New Orleans. Morial went on to graduate Jesuit High School in New Orleans as a member of the National Honor Society. He was one of only 14