The Port of New Orleans said Thursday that Charles Ponstein will be its new oversight board chairman, replacing outgoing chair William Langenstein whose term expires this month.
The board also elected Jack Jensen as Vice Chairman and Joseph Toomy as Secretary-Treasurer at its regular board meeting. The three officers serve in the same capacity on the oversight board of the Public Belt Railroad, which the port has owned since 2018.
Langenstein, a tax attorney at Chaffe McCall, had been chairman from March of this year.
Ponstein owns and manages commercial buildings in St. Bernard Parish, where he has held various public offices, including as a Council Member in the early 2990s and then Parish President from 1996 to 2004.
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