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|nationality=[[United States|American]]
|nationality=[[United States|American]]
| office=15th [[Mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| office=15th [[Mayor]] of [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| party=[[Democratic Party)|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]-turned-[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| term_start=2005
| term_start=2005
| term_end=
| term_end=
Each year in the second week of November, Walker and the mayor of Shreveport, currently Adrian Parkins, host the "Shreveport/Bossier City Mayors' Prayer Breadfast", patterned on the national event in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mykisscountry937.com/shreveportbossier-mayors-prayer-breakfast-planned-for-this-thursday/|title=Shreveport/Bossier Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast Planned For This Thursday|author=Gary McCoy|date=November 11, 2015|publisher=KISS Country Radio|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref>
Each year in the second week of November, Walker and the mayor of Shreveport, currently Adrian Parkins, host the "Shreveport/Bossier City Mayors' Prayer Breadfast", patterned on the national event in Washington, D.C.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mykisscountry937.com/shreveportbossier-mayors-prayer-breakfast-planned-for-this-thursday/|title=Shreveport/Bossier Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast Planned For This Thursday|author=Gary McCoy|date=November 11, 2015|publisher=KISS Country Radio|accessdate=February 28, 2015}}</ref>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
On March 18, 2011, Walker's 39-year-old son, William Lance Walker, was found dead at his residence on Delhi Street in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/bossier-mayors-son-found-dead/|title=Bossier Mayor's Son Found Dead, March 18, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=March 21, 2011}}</ref> Walker and his wife, Adele Marchena Walker (August 20, 1939 – August 6, 2014), the daughter of Leopoldo and Josephina Marchena and a native of [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], have a surviving daughter, Linda Walker Morse, and two grandsons, Wesley and William Morse.<ref name=adelewalker/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=adele-m-walker&pid=172015162&fhid=6692|title=Adele M. Walker obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 8, 2014|accessdate=August 12, 2014}}</ref>
On March 18, 2011, Walker's 39-year-old son, William Lance Walker, was found dead at his residence on Delhi Street in Bossier City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://710keel.com/bossier-mayors-son-found-dead/|title=Bossier Mayor's Son Found Dead, March 18, 2011|publisher=KEEL Radio|accessdate=March 21, 2011}}</ref> Walker and his wife, Adele Marchena Walker (August 20, 1939 – August 6, 2014), the daughter of Leopoldo and Josephina Marchena and a native of [[Madrid]], [[Spain]], have a surviving daughter, Linda Walker Morse, and two grandsons, Wesley and William Morse.<ref name=adelewalker/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=adele-m-walker&pid=172015162&fhid=6692|title=Adele M. Walker obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=August 8, 2014|accessdate=August 12, 2014}}</ref>