Lori Burrows
Lori L. Burrows has been named as vice president and general counsel for Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc.
She replaces Bob Lyford, who retired after more than 30 years with the cooperative.
“Lori’s skills and professional knowledge will be valuable as we continue to build on the cooperatives’ efforts to allow AECC to remain one of the nation’s top generation and transmission cooperatives and assist AECI in remaining the strongest statewide cooperative service association,” Duane Highley, president and CEO for AECC/AECI, said in a news release.
Burrows joined AECC as senior staff attorney in 2012. She has more than 10 years of public utility legal and regulatory experience at the state, regional and federal levels.
During her tenure with the cooperatives she has focused on AECC’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Arkansas Public Service Commission representation, in addition to legal work on contracts, power purchase agreements and other energy industry transactions.
Before joining AECC/AECI, she served as commission legal advisor for the APSC. Burrows also served as assistant attorney general in the consumer utilities rate advocacy division in the Arkansas Attorney General’s office prior to her post with the APSC.
She is a 2004 honors graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Burrows earned a bachelor’s in speech communication from the University of Central Arkansas in 1997. She currently serves as the president of Arkansas Women in Power, which she helped establish earlier this year.
Burrows is the past president of the Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers and is a member of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Greater Little Rock Class XXX.
The Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas comprise 17 electric distribution cooperatives; Arkansas Electric Cooperatives Inc., a Little Rock-based cooperative that provides services to the distribution cooperatives; and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp., a generation and transmission cooperative. The distribution cooperatives provide electricity to approximately 500,000 homes, farms and businesses in Arkansas and surrounding states.
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