Charlotte Bollinger  is the Executive Vice President of Bollinger's Shipyards, located on Bayou Lafourche. Bollinger's was started in 1946 when Charlotte's father, Donald, was willed $10,000 by the owner of the company for which he and his father had been working. Donald moved his family to Bayou Lafourche in 1960, and Charlotte grew up in the shipyard, going to work for the company in 1984. Since its inception, the shipyard has been involved in building vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry. In the 1980s the company began building patrol boats and has built the entire patrol boat fleets of the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy.