2023-2024
President
Executive Vice President
Executive Vice President
GRADY WILSON
Shreveport/ Bossier City
Executive Vice President
Executive Vice President
Executive Vice President
Emily Becker
Covington
Vice President
Executive Vice President
Vice President
ED GASKELL
NEW ORLEANS
Vice President
Vice President
Vice President
Kathy Ruckstuhl
Lafayette
Secretary
Vice President
Secretary
BARBARA FISHER
Mandeville/Covington
Treasurer
Vice President
Secretary
LANA WHITLOW
New Orleans
Immediate Past President
Immediate Past President
Immediate Past President
Jay Boyd
Shreveport/Bossier City
Regional Representatives
Region I Southeast
Region III Southwest
Region I Southeast
Alvertha Penny
New Orleans
Region II Eastern
Region III Southwest
Region I Southeast
Josh Dubois
Baton Rouge
Region III Southwest
Region III Southwest
Region III Southwest
Tonya Anderson
Lafayette
Region IV Northern
Region V Northshore
Region III Southwest
Brian Bernard
Shreveport/ Bossier City
Region V Northshore
Region V Northshore
Region V Northshore
Jay Butcher
Mandeville
PTR Representative
Region V Northshore
Region V Northshore
Alvin Varnado
USPTA Representative
USPTA Representative
USPTA Representative
Janusz Conradi
Lafayette
Director at Large
USPTA Representative
USPTA Representative
Anna Monhartova
New Orleans
Director at Large
USPTA Representative
Director at Large
Charles Ayles
Past Presidents
Bruce Kingsdorf
Bruce Kingsdorf
Bruce Kingsdorf
2019-20
Robert Daigle
Bruce Kingsdorf
Bruce Kingsdorf
2017-2018
Rob Worley
Bruce Kingsdorf
Drew Meyers
2015-2016
Drew Meyers
Brett Schwartz
Drew Meyers
2012-2014
Brett Schwartz
Brett Schwartz
Brett Schwartz
2010-2011
Wayne Bono
Brett Schwartz
Brett Schwartz
2008-2009
Kathy Hinrichs
Kathy Hinrichs
Kathy Hinrichs
2006-2007
Brett Schwartz nominated to lead usta southern
Additional Information
Brett Schwartz, Ted Reese nominated to lead USTA Southern
PEACHTREE CORNERS, GA. – SEPT. 20, 2022 – United States Tennis Association (USTA) Southern announced today that Brett Schwartz, of Mandeville, La., has been nominated to serve as USTA Southern Board of Directors President & CEO for the 2023-24 term. Ted Reese, of Cary, N.C., was nominated to the post of Executive Vice President.
Schwartz currently serves USTA Southern Executive Vice President. Previously he served as USTA Southern Vice President for two years and as Secretary. Other volunteer work includes currently serving as the USTA College Pathway Vice Chair for two terms. At Southern, he also served on the Diversity & Inclusion Task Force and Steering Committee. He headed the Louisiana Board of Directors as the President along with numerous other positions. At the sectional level he also served as a member of the Player Development Committee (2005-2011) and as Vice-Chair of the Professional Relations Committee for two terms and the USTA Southern Junior Competition Committee.
He was a driving force for NJTL Blueprint for Success and expansion of the Build it Forward program. Additionally, after Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz served on the Hurricane Katrina Grant Committee, which obtained and oversaw a $500,000 grant from the USTA to rebuild the public and private facilities in New Orleans. He is the Director of Tennis at StoneCreek Club and Spa, in Covington, La. He is married to Lori Kieffer Schwartz. They have an 18-year-old son, Kieffer Joseph Schwartz, and a 15-year-old daughter, Kyleigh Ann Schwartz.
Reese has served as a Southern Vice President since 2017. He volunteers as the USTA Local Play and Competition Chair, Vice President of the North Carolina Tennis Foundation, and previously as a member of the USTA 10 and Under and Junior Team Tennis committees. He is President of TTS, Inc., a tennis club and management firm, and is the Founder and Co-Tournament Director of the Atlantic Tire Championships ATP professional tournament. e.
