Journal Attorney – Tim Griffin, a fifth-generation Arkansan from Magnolia, is the youngest son of a minister and a teacher. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas on November 4, 2014, and re-elected for a second term on November 6, 2018. His priorities include economic development, expanding parental choice in education, and reforming state government. In 2019, he served as Chairman of the Republican Lieutenant Governors Association (RLGA).
From 2011 to 2015, Griffin represented Arkansas’s Second Congressional District as the 24th representative. During the 113th Congress, he was a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means and served as a Deputy Whip for the Majority. In the 112th Congress, he was a member of the House Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Foreign Affairs, House Committee on Ethics, and House Committee on the Judiciary, as well as an Assistant Whip for the Majority. Griffin advocated for significant tax and entitlement reforms to stimulate job growth and reduce the national debt.
During the Bush Administration, Griffin served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas (2006-2007) and as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush.
Griffin has been an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, for 26 years and holds the rank of Colonel. In 2005, he served as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and with the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul, Iraq, earning the Combat Action Badge. He is currently the Staff Judge Advocate (SJA) for the 81st Readiness Division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and has held previous roles including Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment at Fort Bragg and senior legislative advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. In July 2018, Griffin earned a master’s degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College, graduating as a Distinguished Graduate.
Griffin is active in the community, serving on the boards of Pathway to Freedom, Our House shelter for the working homeless, Florence Crittenton Home for unwed mothers, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas.
He graduated from Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway, and Tulane Law School in New Orleans, and attended graduate school at Oxford University in England. Griffin’s wife, Elizabeth, is from Camden, and they live in Little Rock with their three children, Mary Katherine, John, and Charlotte Anne. They are members of Immanuel Baptist Church of Little Rock.
Tim Griffin Address, Phone Number and Website:
323 Center St., Suite 200 Little Rock, AR 72201-2610
(800) 482-8982
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