Jimmy Hickey Jr.
| Milton Jimmy Hickey Jr. | |
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| Member of the Arkansas Senate from the 11th district |
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Assumed office January 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Robert F. Thompson |
| Majority Whip of the Arkansas State Senate | |
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Assumed office 2015 |
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| Born |
November 5, 1966 Texarkana, Miller County Arkansas, USA |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Denise Lynn Love Hickey |
| Children | Sawyer Hickey |
| Residence | Texarkana, Arkansas |
| Alma mater | East Texas State University in Texarkana |
| Occupation | Businessman |
Milton Jimmy Hickey Jr. (born November 5, 1966) is a self-employed businessman in his native Texarkana, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate for District 11, which includes Miller, Lafayette and Little River counties plus a portion of Hempstead and Sevier counties.
Since January 2015, Hickey has been the Senate Majority Whip working under Majority Leader Jim Hendren.
Hickey obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the Texarkana, Texas, campus of Texas A&M University–Commerce, then known as East Texas State University. He owns three companies, GBU Operations, Inc., Oak Creek Investment Properties, Inc., and XB Construction. He is a former vice-president of Commercial National Bank of Texarkana, an institution in both Texas and Arkansas with which he was affiliated for twenty-five years.
Hickey and his wife, the former Denise Lynn Love (born 1969), have one son, Sawyer Hickey. He is a member of the Trinity Baptist Church in Texarkana, Arkansas.
From 2004 to 2010, Hickey served for two terms on the school board in Texarkana, Arkansas, and for a time was the board vice-president and the president. He was elected to the Senate from the revised District 11 in 2012 when he narrowly unseated the Democrat Steve Harrelson, 14,510 to 13,148, formerly the senator for District 21. The previous District 11 senator, the Democrat attorney Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas, instead ran successfully in the revised District 20. Hickey's Senate term expires at the end of 2016.
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