About District 6200

District 6200 Governor

Craig Walling and his wife are fully retired now. In July 2020, Craig and Clara closed C&C Treasures, LLC. Treasures was a small antique store located within the Cajun Village in Sorrento, LA. Additionally, Treasures ran private estate sales for people in need of a professional and compassionate team to downsize or liquidate household items from their personal residences. Treasures was in business since July 2013.

Prior to starting his own business, Craig was employed for twelve years with Innovative Emergency Management, Inc. (IEM) as the Director, DoD and Homeland Defense. His responsibilities included oversight and coordination of IEM’s projects within Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Edgewood Area, MD, the Maneuver Support Center, Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and DoD CBRNE programs and Coordinating Programs within Homeland Defense.

Craig retired as a United States Army Chemical Corps, Colonel on May 31, 2002. A resident of Houma, Louisiana, he entered the U.S. Army on May 15, 1976. He graduated as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Nicholl's State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Science. He received his Master of Business Administration from Long Island University in March 1988. Colonel Walling's military assignments spanned the military’s leadership and staff roles from Platoon Leader to two battalion commands, one of which was in Kitzingen, Germany. He also had such unique assignments as Course Director and Instructor for four years at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, and Commander, United States Army Recruiting Battalion, New Orleans, Louisiana. Colonel Walling's last military assignment was as the Director, Chemical/Biological Defense Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, where he managed the $1.2 Billion Chemical and Biological Defense budget.

Craig Walling and his wife, Clara, have settled in Maurepas, Louisiana, and have two daughters and five grandchildren. Craig is a Rotary Paul Harris Society Major Donor and Bequest Society Member.

$2.1B Raised

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 30 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. We've helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. So far, Rotary has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward eradicating the disease worldwide.