Lloyd Walters is a retired educator with over thirty-five years’ experience in the K-12 school system in Newfoundland and Labrador. He has been a teacher, principal, program development and implementation specialist, a school development and strategic planning specialist and an Assistant Director-Personnel in several school districts in Western Newfoundland and Labrador.
He has studied science, education, curriculum development and implementation and leadership at Memorial University as well as program development and implementation at McGill University, Vanderbilt University and Colorado State University.
Lloyd served on the Board of Trustees of the Western Regional Health Authority for six years. and was acting chair of the Authority at its dissolution. He was a member of the Finance, Credentials and Privileges and Executive Committees and chair of the Quality Assessment and Strategic Planning Committee.
He served as a councillor and Mayor of the Town of Burgeo where he founded the Burgeo Transportation Commission, with representation from all local communities. It spearheaded the initiative to build and pave the Burgeo Highway.
Lloyd was also the founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Burgeo Broadcasting System, a not-for-profit community-based company that currently provides television services to the Town of Burgeo and internet service to Burgeo and nearby communities as well as to several communities in the Codroy Valley.
Lloyd has been the chair of the West Newfoundland Regional Appeal Board for the past five years and over that period of time have adjudicated nearly fifty appeals.
He has had extensive experience on volunteer and not-for-profit boards including within his church community, Big Brothers-Big Sisters of NL, Corner Brook Minor Hockey Association and Crime Stoppers Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a past secretary, past treasurer and Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Mount Patricia Cemetery Association. He also served six years as treasurer and two as president of the Long Range Shrine Club, Corner Brook and was selected Shriner of the Year for Newfoundland and Labrador for 2016. He is a Past District Grand Master – Western and a Past Grand Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador.
During his leisure time Lloyd loves to spend time in the outdoors gardening, boating, hiking, hunting, fishing and snowmobiling in Western Newfoundland and Labrador. He spends the summers with his wife, Linda, and their children and grandchildren making memories at their cottage on Sandy Lake.