Shareen Larmond

Shareen Larmond is President of the West Gulf Maritime Association, a maritime trade association representing the interests of almost 200 companies in the maritime community. The association primarily negotiates and administers the multi-employer collective bargaining agreements on behalf of employers of the International Longshoremen’s Association throughout the Gulf Coast. Her official appointment as President on January 31, 2018 made Larmond the first female and first person of color to run the West Gulf Maritime Association in all its 50-year history. It also made her the first female to head a Port Association of its kind in the country.

In 2018, Larmond increased company profits and successfully guided employers through labor negotiations, ultimately producing and implementing fourteen collective bargaining agreements to ensure a peaceful labor climate in Texas over the next several years.

Prior to her appointment as President, Larmond was employed as the Association’s General Counsel and oversaw all aspects of litigation; most notably discrimination and harassment cases, as well as enforcement of the multi-employer collective bargaining agreements.

Prior to her maritime work, Larmond served as General Counsel for State Senator John Whitmire, Dean of the Texas Senate. For over five years, she performed advanced and complex legal and legislative analytical work in both Austin and Houston. Larmond was fortunate to have a part in many of the major criminal justice reforms that took place in 2007.

She is active in both maritime and local communities. Ms. Larmond is appointed to the Houston First Corporation board of directors where she serves on the Finance and Asset Management Committee. She is also on the board of the Lower Kirby Pearland Management District. She has been a board member for the District since its statutory creation in 2007 and currently serves as the District’s President. Larmond is a Co-Administrator for the J.H. “Buddy” Raspberry Scholarship Trust Fund that awards educational scholarships for individuals in the maritime industry. She also holds board positions on the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board and the Economic Alliance Houston Port Region.

Larmond received her Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communications from the University of Texas at Austin and her law degree at Thurgood Marshall School of Law. She is a bar member of the State Bar of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.