BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Louisiana director for Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign is David Huynh, a recent political science graduate who has worked on campaigns in Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia.

Alex Brandon / Associated Press

The Obama campaign announced Huynh's selection Thursday, describing him as a veteran organizer with experience at the federal, state, and local levels.

He grew up in Morgan City and is a 2008 graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and a district delegate pledged to Obama for the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver.

Until now, Huynh said, some of his biggest campaigns have included being Orleans Parish field director for state Rep. Karen Carter Peterson's 2006 challenge to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson.

He also managed last year's successful state campaigns for Peterson, the speaker pro tem, and state Sen. Cheryl Gray, as well as Beasley Denson's winning campaign for tribal chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

He joined the New Orleans boutique media consulting firm College Hill Strategy Group as an associate in April and said he took a leave of absence about a month and a half ago to work on Obama's campaign.

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