Edgar Lawrence Chase III

Edgar “Dooky” Chase III is a CPA and attorney. He retired from Dillard University in 2009 after serving as its Vice President for Master Facilities Planning and Management and as its long-standing Dean of Business, but returned to higher education in 2010 to serve as Delgado Community College/ Goldman Sachs’ Lead Faculty in New Orleans for the development of 10,000 Small Businesses. He ultimately left Delgado to focus on his goal of becoming a historical fiction writer. Dooky’s trilogy on “American Identity” is a five part work covering civil rights and race relations in New Orleans from 1721 to 2020. Dooky graduated from Jesuit High School in 1967 and was recognized as its Alumnus of the Year in 2012. He was the first African American Student Body President at Loyola University in New Orleans and graduated from there in 1971. In 1973, Dooky obtained a master’s degree in business administration from New York’s Columbia University and then returned to Loyola University to obtain his law degree in 1983. From 1973-1978, he served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corp. Dooky remains actively involved with the family’s Dooky Chase Restaurant and the Chase Family Foundation. He currently serves on the Boards of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, the City of New Orleans Municipal Employees Retirement System, the New Orleans Botanical Gardens, the governance committee of Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Louisiana, Inc., and since 2017 the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) South Central Region. His past Board service includes the Bureau of Governmental Research, the Loyola University Board of Trustees, the City Park Improvement Association, Inc., the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad, the Board of Trustees of Our Lady of Holy Cross College, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, the Millennium Port Authority of Louisiana, the State Board of Economic Development, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and (most recently) the New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute.