Family
Donna Jean Hutchinson (born 1949), Hutchinson's first wife, is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 98, which includes part of Benton County. 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, she was reared in a military family and lived in twenty-nine different locations as a child. She holds a master's degree in education from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She is employed as a professional mediator and is a non-denominational Christian.
Representative Donna Hutchinson serves on the Arkansas House Education Committee and is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Vocational-Technical Institutions. She is also a member of the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee, and the Joint Budget Committee. She is an alternate member on the Joint Energy Committee. In addition, she chairs the Arkansas Legislative Women's Caucus.
Donna and Tim Hutchinson divorced in 1999 after twenty-nine years of marriage. He subsequently wed a member of his staff.
Tim and Donna Hutchinson have three sons. Jeremy Hutchinson (born 1974) is a former state representative who has served since 2011 in the Arkansas State Senate. Another son, Timothy Chad Hutchinson, Jeremy's twin, of Springdale previously served with his mother in the state House. Jeremy and Timothy Hutchinson were the first identical twins to serve alongside each other in the Arkansas General Assembly, both as members of the Arkansas House. A third son, Joshua Luke Hutchinson (born c. 1978), resides in Rogers, Arkansas.
Tim Hutchinson's brother is Asa Hutchinson, a Republican former member of the U.S. House from Arkansas's 3rd congressional district, the former undersecretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2006, the same year that Donna Hutchison was elected to the state House. Prior to his election to the Senate in 1996, Tim Hutchinson had also held the Third District U.S. House seat.
Tim and Asa Hutchinson are both 1972 graduates of Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.
Tim and Asa Hutchinson are the brothers-in-law of Arkansas State Senator Kim Hendren, who married Hutchinson's sister, Marylea, in 1958. Hendren was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the 2010 election. On May 18, he lost the primary to current Senator John Boozman.
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