Donna Hutchinson
| Donna Jean King Hutchinson | |
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| Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from the 98th district |
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In office January 2007 – January 2013 |
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| Succeeded by | John Burris (reconfigured district) |
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| Born | 1949 New Bern, North Carolina |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Tim Hutchinson (married 1970- August 16, 1999, divorced) |
| Relations |
Asa Hutchinson (former brother-in-law) Jeremy Y. Hutchinson (twin son) Timothy Chad Hutchinson (twin son) Joshua Luke Hutchinson (youngest son) Jim Hendren (former nephew by marriage) |
| Residence |
Bella Vista, Benton County Arkansas, USA |
| Alma mater | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| Occupation | Mediation counselor |
| Religion | Non-denominational Christian |
Donna Jean King Hutchinson (born 1949) is a Republican former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 98, which includes part of fast-growing Benton County in northwestern Arkansas. A resident of Bella Vista, she was initially elected to the House in 2006 and assumed her position in January 2007.
A member of the Blackfeet tribe, Hutchinson was born into a military family in New Bern in Craven County in eastern North Carolina. As a child, she lived in twenty-nine different locations. She holds a master's degree in education from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Employed as a professional mediator by DJ Consulting, she is a non-denominational Christian.
Her son, Jeremy Hutchinson, is a former state representative who has served since 2011 in the Arkansas State Senate from a district in Little Rock. Timothy Chad Hutchinson, Jeremy's twin brother from Springdale, previously served with his mother in the state House. The twins were born in 1974 in Kansas City, Kansas. A third son, Joshua Luke Hutchinson (born 1978) resided in 2013 in Keller, near Fort Worth, Texas, and was formerly a resident of Rogers, Arkansas. Tim Hutchinson, Donna Hutchinson's former husband, from whom she was divorced in 1999 after twenty-nine years of marriage, served from 1997 to 2003 as the first Republican U.S. senator from Arkansas since 1879, two years after the close of Reconstruction. 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. She had left Hutchinson's employ in 1998 to attend law school. Hutchinson asked his sons not to attend the wedding out of respect for their mother. He called the collapse of his first marriage an "intensely personal thing."
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