Dennis Stine is Chief Executive Officer and partial owner of Stine Lumber Company, Inc, a Sulphur, La.-based building material company founded by his father, J.W. Stine in 1954.   Stine Lumber Company, Inc. employs 830 people in Louisiana and an additional 50 in Mississippi at its 11 retail locations.

Stine, a native of Sulphur, Louisiana, attended Sulphur High School.  He received a Bachelors degree in Accounting and a Masters in Business from McNeese State University.

Dennis Stine served as Louisiana State Commissioner of Administration in 1988-1992 during the Roemer Administration and two terms in the House of Representatives.

Dennis Stine serves on the Louisiana State Trooper Association, Christus Health Board of Directors, Region V Health Care Commission, Southwest Louisiana Chamber of Commerce, Blueprint Louisiana, Council for a Better Louisiana, Community Foundation of Acadiana, Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana, and Allied Building Stores.

Dennis and his wife Marla have four children and two grandchildren.