Leon Joyner

Mr. Joyner is a vice president and actuary in the Segal Atlanta office. He is Segal’s Public Sector Retirement Practice Leader and a member of its Public Sector Leadership Group. Mr. Joyner has over 40 years of actuarial consulting experience with all types of pension plans. He currently is the consulting actuary for many government clients, including City of Birmingham; Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division; San Antonio Fire and Police Retirement System; DeKalb County, Georgia; Georgia Municipal Employees’ Benefit System (covers employees in nearly 300 municipalities across the state of Georgia); and the Government Employees’ Retirement System of the United States Virgin Islands. Mr. Joyner is a graduate of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where he earned a B.S. degree in mathematics and physics/ engineering. He has also completed graduate work in actuarial science at Georgia State University. Mr. Joyner is a fellow in the Conference of Consulting Actuaries, an associate of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and an enrolled actuary. He has been a conference speaker on public sector funding issues for numerous organizations, including the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), The National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS), the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA), the Advisory Committee for the Certificate in Public Financial Management program and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). He has testified before legislative committees in Texas, Kentucky, Maryland, Florida and Georgia and has published articles on deferred retirement option program (DROP) issues and plan design.