Background
He was initially elected in 2004, two years after his father, Tim Hutchinson, lost reelection to Democrat Mark Pryor to a second term in the United States Senate.
He was initially elected in 2004, two years after his father, Tim Hutchinson, lost reelection to Democrat Mark Pryor to a second term in the United States Senate.
In 1999, he received his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville. Before he entered the legislature, Hutchinson had been a deputy prosecutor in Benton and Sebastian counties. He is a former adjunct professor at John Brown University of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, having instructed employment law, business law, and corporate governance.
Former Governor Mike Huckabee named Hutchinson to the Arkansas State Drug and Alcohol Prevention Advisory Board.
In his first election to the House in 2004, Hutchinson defeated the Democrat Robbyn Tumey. From 2007 to 2010, Timothy Chad Hutchinson served alongside his mother, Donna Hutchinson, the first wife of former Senator Tim Hutchinson.
A representative from Benton County first elected in 2006, Donna Hutchinson was term-limited from her position in 2012. On October 31, 1996, the week before his father was elected to the United States. Senate, the then 22-year-old Hutchinson was involved in an automobile accident near Fayetteville, Arkansas, in which a couple in their sixties, Jack Clinton Watlington and Reba Beavers Watlington from Center, Texas, were killed en route to a funeral.
Hutchinson pleaded no contest to driving left of the center line and operating a vehicle with worn tires.
The accident occurred during a storm when a tractor-trailer struck the cars of both Hutchinson and the Watlingtons. Hutchinson paid a $50 fine and $100 in court costs for his role in the accident. Hendren lost the United States. Senate Republican primary in 2010 and was a candidate in 2014 for the District 92 seat in the Arkansas House.
Kim Hendren"s son, Jim Hendren, a cousin of Timothy Hutchinson, is the District 2 state senator from Benton County.
