Rose Hudson

President and CEO, Louisiana Lottery Corp.

Rose Hudson is a prominent industry and community leader, serving as Louisiana Lottery’s President/CEO since 2006, only the fourth in the company’s history. Under her leadership, the Lottery has enjoyed some of its most successful years in its 22-year history, garnering cumulatively more than $2.7 billion that have been used to fund K-12 education in Louisiana.

Rose utilizes her time and talents to benefit the community through her current service as Chair of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Foundation Board of Directors and by serving on the boards of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. She has previously served on the boards of the Association of Junior League International, Louisiana United Negro College Fund and Louisiana Art and Science Museum.

She is also an industry leader, currently serving as vice president of the Multi-State Lottery Association, a non-profit organization of 33-member lotteries which operates a collection of multi-jurisdictional lottery games, including Mega Millions and Powerball. Previously, Rose served in all leadership roles of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. In addition, she served as the former chairman of its Powerball Game Group, which manages the game’s $2 million annual budget, rules, and policies.