Bailey Taylor serves as the director of Arkansas’s Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the chief administrator of the environment for the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment.

Prior to this role, Bailey served as the interim associate director of the Office of Land Resources and deputy associate director of the Office of Water Quality for E&E’s Division of Environmental Quality. Bailey earned a Bachelor of Science in environmental science from the University of Central Arkansas. After graduating, she spent five years as an environmental scientist on a toxicology emergency response team for incidents across North America. Since joining E&E, Bailey has served in each of the three technical offices: Air, Land, and Water.

Bailey and her husband, Todd, live in East End and have two sons. Bailey has a passion for the environment and enjoys spending time hunting and fishing on the White River National Wildlife Refuge. She works daily to help further the goal of protecting and enhancing Arkansas’s environment.​