Rita benson leblanc biography
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The days of Rita
Editor’s note: This story is revised from the print edition.
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The man is standing inside Galatoire’s, in the French Quarter, when he sees someone he thinks he knows. He stares to the point of rudeness before it hits him. Of course! She’d been on television a million times before the problems started. He’d heard she’d moved back to Texas, or was traveling abroad. But now she’s right beside him in a pretty dress, lips set tight. He can’t help whispering to a companion. “Isn’t that Rita Benson?”
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So strange that it has come to this. She was the most visible woman in the city of New Orleans, the public face of the most important institution in town: the only one that united the businessmen and the panhandlers, the Creoles and the Cajuns, the flooded and the dry. Full of life, impulsive, she was a whirlwind heading off in every direction. Somehow, though, she remembered everyone’s name, knew how long
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Rita Benson LeBlanc
Former Vice Chairman of the Board of the New Orleans Saints
Rita Mae LeBlanc, also known as Rita Benson LeBlanc (born January 11, 1977), is a former vice chairman of the board of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]LeBlanc is the daughter of Russell LeBlanc and of Renee Benson, the daughter of the late Tom Benson, who owned the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Pelicans prior to his death.[3] Rita has a brother, Ryan LeBlanc.[4][5]
Born in Houma, Louisiana[6] when her family lived in nearby Cut Off,[7] she was raised on a ranch near Johnson City, Texas, where she attended Lyndon B. Johnson High School[8] before receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in agribusiness at Texas A&M University in 2001.[9]
Career
[edit]LeBlanc began interning for the Saints and in various league offices while still