Louis Caldera is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law and a senior fellow in the Program on Law and Government at American University Washington College of Law since September 2018. Louis is also a private investor, consultant and a Senior Advisor to the Diverse Communities Impact Fund I, LP. From July 2016 to June 2018, Louis served as a Professor of Leadership in the College of Professional Studies at The George Washington University and a senior fellow at the GWU Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute. Louis previously served on the board of directors and the audit, compensation, compliance and nominating and governance committees of Career Education Corp., from March 2013 until October 2015. He was vice president of programs of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation from July 2010 until March 2012 and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from June 2009 to June 2010. Louis served as an Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Military Office in the Obama Administration from January 2009 to May 2009. He served as president of The University of New Mexico from August 2003 to February 2006, where he was a tenured member of the law school faculty from August 2003 to December 2010. Previously Louis was vice chancellor for advancement of The California State University and served as Secretary of the Army in the Clinton Administration.

Louis is a former director of A. H. Belo Corporation (December 2007 to January 2009), Belo Corp. (July 2001 to February 2008), IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. (May 2002 to August 2008), and Southwest Airlines Co. (March 2003 to January 2009).