Rural roots shape Miss Arkansas Kennedy Holland’s values and vision
Kennedy Holland started the summer wearing an Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas intern badge and finished it wearing a sparkly crown.
Just three weeks into her internship at the cooperatives’ Little Rock headquarters, the 20-year-old University of Central Arkansas student and Greenwood native was named Miss Arkansas 2025. A few weeks later, she returned to the cooperative world, this time as a featured speaker at the Directors’ Summer Conference in Jonesboro.
It was a proud moment for Sean Holland, Kennedy’s dad and director for Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative, seated among his cooperative family — directors who had known Kennedy since she was a child…