BATON ROUGE — Gov. Jeff Landry said Thursday that Chester "Lee" Mallet, the vice chairman of the LSU Board of Supervisors, will take the top post on the panel.

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Landry thanked current chairman Scott Ballard and said Ballard would remain on the board. 

“Scott positioned LSU for long-term success,” Landry wrote. During Ballard's tenure, the board voted to re-integrate the University of New Orleans into the LSU system.

Mallett is from the Lake Charles area. 

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