Lance Eads

Background

Eads is the son of Volume(s) Leroy and Joyce Gail Eads of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Education

In 1992, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in professional education from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia in Clark County in southern Arkansas.

Career

In 2003, he was named a business development manager for a federal cr union. In 2010, he joined the chamber of commerce in Springdale. He previously resided in Gentry in Benton County and in Lincoln, West Fork, Farmington, and Fayetteville in Washington County.

From 2011 to 2012, Eads was a justice of the peace in Washington County.

In 2014, he unseated in the low-turnout Republican primary election the one-term incumbent, Randy Alexander, also of Springdale, 1,137 to 817 votes (58-42 percent). Eads then ran without opposition in the November 4 general election.

In February 2015, Eads joined dozens of his fellow Republicans and two Democrats in co-sponsoring legislation submitted by Representative Lane Jean of Magnolia, to reduce unemployment compensation benefits. The measure was promptly signed into law by Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson.

That same month, Eads supported House Bill 1228, sponsored by Bob Ballinger of Carroll County, which sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion.

The measure passed the House, seventy-two to twenty. Bennett claimed the Ballinger bill would establish a "type of religious litmus test" which could impact nearly any law under consideration by the legislature. The measure was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, Bachelor of Science 975, by Governor Hutchinson.

Religion

The two greatest commandments are to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with your entire mind" and to "love your neighbor as yourself."

Politics

All Christians, and particularly those in leadership positions, should prayerfully seek God’s mind and will and strongly to consider the potential problems of politicizing the church and the pulpit before endorsing candidates.

Views

God meant for a person’s earthly happiness to be fulfilled through God given relationships.

Membership

Eads is a Southern Baptist and a member of the mega-church, The Cross Church in Washington County, also known as the First Baptist Church of Springdale.

Connections

opponent:

Camille Bennett