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.
Her impressive legacy of service, though, began with her parents who encouraged her to engage in service from a young age. Service is the rent you pay to be part of a community, her father was fond of saying.
She continued to develop her passion for service as a college student at Dillard University through volunteering with her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta. But her desire to give back through service solidified when she was invited to be part of a telethon for Mary Bird Perkins, and she witnessed firsthand what an impact high-quality cancer care has on the community.
In addition to her community service, Rose was inducted to the Nicholls State University Louisiana Center for Women and Government Hall of Fame in 2012. She has been named one of the “Most Powerful and Influential Women in Louisiana” by the National Diversity Council, was recognized as an Influential Women in Business by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, and was named LSU Masters of Public Administration Alumnus of the Year by the Department of Public Administration at LSU.
Of all her many accomplishments, though, her two children bring her immense pride.