Laura R. Landreaux is president and chief executive officer of Entergy Arkansas – a company that has helped power life in Arkansas for over 110 years.
Laura ensures that Entergy Arkansas meets the power needs of approximately 740,000 customers every day. She is also responsible for driving the company’s financial and operational business results, customer service, safety, resource planning, economic development, employee development and regulatory and governmental affairs.
Laura became president and CEO on July 1, 2018. Her career with Entergy Arkansas began in 2007 as senior counsel, practicing regulatory law for five years. She then became manager of Regulatory Affairs for Entergy Arkansas in 2012. She went on to hold other leadership positions, including finance director and vice president of Regulatory Affairs.
Prior to joining Entergy, she was an attorney for Salt River Project, a water and electricity utility in Phoenix, Arizona. She joined Salt River Project after spending several years in private practice at Quarles & Brady, LLP in Phoenix, Arizona.
An active member of the Arkansas non-profit community, Landreaux currently serves on the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce board of directors. She also serves as a board member for the Foundation of the Mid South, the Arkansas Research Alliance and Easterseals Arkansas. She served as the chairperson of Junior Achievement of Arkansas’ 2019 Legacy Luncheon, was presented the 2019 Woman in Business award by the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, was named the 2020 Arkansan of the Year by Easterseals Arkansas and a 2021 Sparks Star by the Museum of Discovery. She is a founding member of Arkansas Women in Power and a graduate of Arkansas Leadership Class XIII and Leadership Greater Little Rock Class XXX.
A native of Little Rock, Landreaux earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, where she was on the Arkansas Law Review, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Laura is married to John Landreaux, and they have three children.
“Arkansas Research Alliance gives Arkansas the foundation to advance technology and knowledge through research and strategic partnerships in a way that will put our state at the forefront of economic opportunity and growth.”
— Laura Landreaux, President & CEO, Entergy Arkansas