---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000065984-23-000036"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ELC"
cik: "0001348952"
company_name: "ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC"
filed_at: "2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T21:18:36.148641+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Entergy EVP A. Christopher Bakken to retire end of 2023; transitions to advisory role May 1

## Summary
- A. Christopher Bakken, III, Executive Vice President, Entergy Infrastructure, to retire at end of 2023.
- Effective May 1, 2023, Bakken moved from oversight of Chief Nuclear Officer and COO to senior advisory role.
- Bakken will continue to report to the CEO in his new advisory capacity on special projects.
- No replacement named for Bakken's prior role; transition is part of planned leadership succession.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000065984-23-000036
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ELC
- cik: 0001348952
- company_name: ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC
- filed_at: 2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1348952/000006598423000036/0000065984-23-000036-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/7323/000006598423000036/etr-20230501.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000065984-23-000036
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000065984-23-000036.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000065984-23-000036.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  A. Christopher Bakken, III changed role as Executive Vice President, Entergy Infrastructure at ENTERGY LOUISIANA, LLC.
  - Action: transitioned
  - Role: Executive Vice President, Entergy Infrastructure
  source text: On May 1, 2023, Mr. Bakken transitioned from his prior role providing oversight of the Chief Nuclear Officer and Chief Operating Officer to a senior advisory role advising and executing on special projects in which he will continue to report to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1348952/000006598423000036/0000065984-23-000036-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.