Management

 

Walter V. Gray
     
Delta Title Corporation
Chief Executive Officer
 

Walter Gray also currently serves as executive vice-president and a director of Gray & Company, Inc., the parent company of Delta Title Corporation.

A graduate of Loyola University of the South, he has worked in the insurance industry since 1975. He has been a member of the board of Delta Title since 1996.

   

 

T. Howard Leach III
     
Delta Title Corporation
President
 

Howard Leach is an attorney with extensive experience in insurance defense law. He began his career as a claims adjuster with The Gray Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Gray & Company, Inc.

He has maintained a private law practice since 1985 and has represented both Delta Title and The Gray Insurance Company in all aspects of defense law, including civil and maritime litigation, federal and state workers' compensation, personal injury, property and casualty and product liability litigation in federal and state courts. He earned bachelor's and law degrees from Tulane University.

   

 

Wallace H. Paletou
     
Delta Title Corporation
Senior Vice President
 

Wallace graduated from Tulane Law School in 1966. Since then, he has specialized in Real Estate Law, Successions and Wills. He is a member of the American and the Louisiana State Bar Associations; in the past, he has served for several years as Chairman of the Title Examination Committee of the New Orleans Bar Association.

In 1978, Wallace founded Advocate Title Corporation, which became a successful and well respected title agency in Metairie . In January, 2001, Advocate Title's operations were merged into Delta Title Corporation. Wallace is Senior Vice President of the Delta Title Corporation and serves in the Metairie Branch as a Closing Attorney and consultant to staff and clients.