Mark A. Bodron

Monroe, LA

Mark A. Bodron is Associate General Counsel at Lumen Technologies, Inc. in Monroe, Louisiana. He advises the company on compliance, design and ERISA fiduciary matters for Lumen’s retirement and welfare plans and executive compensation arrangements. He also supports the Human Resources and Compensation Committee of the Lumen Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Lumen in September 2021, Mark was a partner in the employee benefits and executive compensation group of the Houston office of Baker Botts L.L.P. He advised clients on all aspects of qualified retirement plans, welfare benefit plans, nonqualified plans, stock-based plans and executive compensation arrangements. He also advised clients on employee benefit and executive compensation matters in M&A transactions.

Mark is currently the co-chair of the annual M&A CLE Program sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Joint Committee of Employee Benefits (“JCEB”). He is also the co-author of the BNA Tax Management Portfolio 351-6th, Plan Qualification-Pension and Profit Sharing Plans, and a former adjunct professor of law at the University of Houston Law School.

Mark served as President of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel in 2021 and 2022. He has previously served as chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation Employee Benefits Committee, the JCEB and the Gulf Coast TE/GE Council and is a former member of the Education Committee of the Southwest Benefits Association.

Mark received a J.D. from the Louisiana State University Law Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, graduating Order of the Coif and was a member and managing editor of the Louisiana Law Review. He earned an M.B.A., a B.S. in accounting and a B.S. in business/marketing from Louisiana Tech University, in Ruston, Louisiana. Following graduation from law school, Mark served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank J. Polozola, United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

Mark is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, State Bar of Texas (inactive), District of Columbia Bar (inactive) and Pennsylvania Bar (inactive).

Mark grew up in Monroe, Louisiana. He frequently travels to Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the fall to attend LSU football games as a long-term season ticket holder. While Mark’s commitment to exercise is questionable, his love of craft beers, and in particular IPAs, is not. Geaux Tigers!