Erik T. Showalter

Erik T. Showalter is a 2002 initiate of the Gamma Alpha Chapter at Louisiana Tech University. After graduating with a degree in business, Erik began his professional career with the Order’s National Administrative Office in Lexington, Virginia. During his eight years on the national staff, he served as Associate Director for Chapter Services, Western Regional Advisor, Director of Development, and Chief Development Officer for the Kappa Alpha Order Educational Foundation (KAOEF). During his time with the KAOEF, he led the launch of Forever KA, along with now-Ammen Province Commander Darron Franta and then Knight Commander J. Michael Duncan, and thereafter the launch of the Crimson & Gold Society. While in the KAOEF staff he earned his Certified Fund Raising Executive designation, a status less than 8,000 fund raisers hold world-wide.

In 2013, Erik transitioned to public service as Director of Finance for U.S. Congressman Robert Pittenger. After a successful stint with a professional fundraising firm in Washington, D.C., returned to Louisiana. He now serves as President of the Baton Rouge General Hospital Foundation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he oversees all fundraising and development activities for the General Health System, managing its assets, programs, projects, staff, and Board of Governors. In 2024, his role expanded to include oversight of government relations and legislative affairs for the entire health system. Additionally, Erik co-owns Showalter Family, LLC, which manages and operates one of the oldest and largest corn and soybean farms in Cedar County, Iowa.

Remaining actively involved with the Order and the KAOEF, he has served on the Kappa Alpha Order Educational Foundation Board of Trustees for six years and has chaired the Order’s E. Fleming Mason Memorial Internship Program for the past two years. He has also been a featured speaker at the Number I’s Leadership Institute and the Order’s Officer Training Conferences. Erik is a proud member of the White, Graves, Ammen, Neal, Hamilton, and Wood Courts of Honor.

Erik earned a Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University in 2025 with a focus on international management and will begin studies in financial management at Cornell University’s Johnson College of Business in January 2026.

He and his wife, Brook, are the proud parents of two daughters, Maggie (13) and Virginia (15). The family are active members of St. Aloysius Catholic Church, where Erik serves as a liturgical reader. Brook teaches Social Studies at St. Aloysius School and directs the school’s annual Christmas pageant.

On August 2, 2025, during the 81st Convention in Roanoke, Virginia, Erik was elected to the Executive Council.