NEW ORLEANS  – D. Parker Moring Jr. has earned an MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and been named Partner and Senior Managing Director at Valbridge Property Advisors l South Louisiana.

The MAI designation is achieved by completing a graduate-level curriculum that includes a comprehensive exam, demonstration report and 4,500 hours of qualifying experience. Designees must abide by both the appraisal profession’s Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and the Appraisal Institute’s Standards of Professional Practice and Code of Ethics.

After earning a BA in history and Spanish in 2000 from Hampden Sydney College, Moring received his MBA in 2007 from the Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He then worked four years abroad in Mexico and Egypt for Tidewater Marine before joining Valbridge in 2013.

He is an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoys spending time with his wife and three children and traveling abroad.