Donna Jean King Hutchinson was born on August 23,1949 and is a Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 98, which includes part of fast-growing Benton County in Northwest Arkansas.
14 Facts About Donna Hutchinson
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Donna Hutchinson holds a master's degree in education from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
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Donna Hutchinson's son, Jeremy Hutchinson, is a former state representative who has served since 2011 in the Arkansas State Senate from a district in Little Rock.
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In 2000, a year after the divorce from Donna, Tim Hutchinson married in a private ceremony his former staffer and state director, Randi Fredholm, who is fourteen years his junior.
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Donna Hutchinson had left Hutchinson's employ in 1998 to attend law school.
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Donna Hutchinson asked his sons not to attend the wedding out of respect for their mother.
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In 2002, Tim Donna Hutchinson was unseated by former Democratic Senator Mark Pryor.
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Tim and Randi Donna Hutchinson are employed by the Dickstein Shapiro firm, he as senior advisor and she as an attorney, and the couple resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Tim Donna Hutchinson had filed for divorce on grounds that the couple had lived apart for more than eighteen months, the requirement for an uncontested divorce in Arkansas.
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Donna Hutchinson's former brother-in-law, Asa Hutchinson, is a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives for Arkansas's 3rd congressional district and former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Representative Donna Hutchinson served on the Arkansas House Education Committee and was the chairman of the Subcommittee on Vocational-Technical Institutions.
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Donna Hutchinson was assigned to the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Joint Budget Committee.
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Donna Hutchinson considered educational issues the most vital to Arkansas because 60 percent of the state budget is earmarked for schools and universities.
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In 2010, Donna Hutchinson sponsored legislation to ban K2, a synthetic drug often likened to marijuana.