Kerry Seaton-Stewart

Kerry Seaton-Stewart is the owner and family operator of Willie Mae’s Scotch House, the longtime New Orleans fried-chicken restaurant founded by her great-grandmother Willie Mae Seaton. Credible reporting places her at the helm of the business by 2007. She is running the restaurant with her husband, Mike Stewart, and family members, including during the post-fire rebuilding period. In 2022–2024, she also led the expansion of Willie Mae’s to a Venice, Los Angeles location and a new New Orleans location on Baronne Street.