Clarke Tucker

Senator Clarke Tucker was elected to the Senate in November of 2020, where he currently represents District 14. His district runs from downtown Little Rock through Chenal Parkway, including all neighborhoods between the Arkansas River and I-630. Senator Tucker also served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. During his legislative career, Senator Tucker has fought for Arkansans’ access to quality and affordable healthcare. He advocated for and helped preserve Arkansas’s landmark Medicaid expansion program. He fought for paid maternity leave for state employees. Further, he sponsored legislation (Act 423 of 2017) to create Arkansas’s Crisis Stabilization Units, which serve as places, other than a local jail, where a person suffering from a mental health crisis may be taken to receive treatment and become stable without burdening the criminal justice system. Senator Tucker has also created the pathway (Act 640 of 2023) for the Arkansas Imagination Library program to provide age-appropriate books to kids in Arkansas from birth to age 5. To this point, the Arkansas Imagination Library has delivered more than 5 million books to kids, free of charge to them.…