Lisa Freeman was first elected GHSA Secretary in 2024, and was reelected in 2025 and 2026. She previously served as Region 4 Representative to the Executive Board.
Freeman is native Louisianan. She attended Louisiana State University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree and Master's Degree in Criminal Justice. She later graduated the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where she received her Juris Doctorate Degree. While in law school, she was a member of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy Law Review, and she also worked for minorities and indigents in D.C. Superior Court as a clinical law student.
In 2021, Freeman was named as a member of the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law Alumni Council. In 1990, Freeman began 29-year legal career in the Capital Region of Louisiana, where she served as an assistant prosecutor and DWI Section Chief and Domestic Violence Section Chief, and then as First Assistant Prosecutor, and was later appointed Chief City Prosecutor for Baton Rouge, during which time, Freeman was recognized as "Prosecutor of the Year" by the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. She subsequently served as a Senior Special Assistant Parish Attorney, in the capacity of Governmental Affairs Section Chief and then as the Legal Advisor for the Baton Rouge Police Department, prior to entering State government.
In February, 2018, Freeman was appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards as the Governor's Highway Safety Representative for Louisiana and as Executive Director of Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. She has since been re-appointed in both these positions by the current Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry. Freeman also serves as Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Impaired Driving and as a member of the Louisiana Drug Policy Board and Louisiana Child Death Review.