Fall 2024 Undergraduate Ceremony Speaker

Marcus Brown
Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Entergy Corporation

Marcus Brown is executive vice president and general counsel of Entergy Corporation, where he oversees the legal, ethics, and compliance, corporate communications, federal policy, regulatory and governmental affairs, and cyber security governance groups. He also provides legal counsel to the chair and CEO, board of directors, and senior management.

Brown helps drive Entergy’s leadership in sustainability and corporate social responsibility by focusing on growth, profitability, and societal goals — especially those related to environmental protection, social justice and equity, sustainable development, and economic development.

In addition to helping create a program that dramatically increased the pro bono commitment of the company’s lawyers and paralegals, he also helped establish a full-time, in-house counsel role dedicated to pro bono legal assistance — a first amongst Fortune 500 companies.

The Financial Times named Brown one of the top in-house general counsels for companies worldwide in 2020. The National Legal Aid and Defender Association presented him with the 2020 Exemplar Award, and organizations like the New Orleans and Louisiana State Bar Associations and United Way of Southeast Louisiana have awarded him their top honors for community service.

He serves as chair of the 2025 Super Bowl Host Committee, chair of the board of directors for Energy Insurance Mutual, on the advisory board of the Tulane Center for Energy Law and the advisory council for the Laborde Energy Law Center at Louisiana State University. He is a frequent lecturer and publisher on topics impacting the utility industry and the legal profession.

Brown earned his juris doctor from the Southern University Law Center, where he was a member of the Law Review, and received an MBA from the Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business. He has a bachelor’s degree from Southern University A&M College.