Born in Rayne, Louisiana, Mary Ellen Leger is a visual artist and former CEO of M.E. Leger Enterprises, LLC. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1999 with Magna Cum Laude honors and was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. As CEO of Leger Enterprises from 2007-17, her company’s home organizational designs were featured on NBC’s The Today Show and ABC’s Good Morning America and were distributed nationally and internationally. Her responsibilities included orchestration and overseeing of marketing, website design, wholesale and retail sales, e-commerce, and public relations correspondence.

While pursuing her undergraduate work she studied in Paris, France and extended her travel to England, the Netherlands, and Italy. She has been represented by Goldsberry Gallery in Houston and Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, Texas. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, New American Painting through the Open Studios Press in Boston, United States Art in Embassies Exhibition, La Paz, Bolivia, in New Orleans at the Contemporary Art Center, Ogden Museum of Art, and Delgado Community College, and the Louisiana State University Art Museum in Baton Rouge as well as numerous exhibitions throughout the region. In 2001 she was recognized as a Fellow of the Louisiana Division of the Arts.