THE 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Gov. Sarah �uckabee Sanders Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders was sworn into office on January 10, 2023 in a historic ceremony that saw her become the first female governor of the state, the first child of a former governor elected to the office, and the youngest governor in the nation at age 40.
Secretary for Former President Donald Trump. She worked as a political operative in many campaigns including for U.S. Senator John Boozman, U.S. Representative French Hill, and the two Presidential campaigns of her father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Sanders was well-known for her previous role as White House Press
Sanders started the session with a “bold, conservative” agenda that
focused on education, prison and sentencing reform, and tax cuts. Early in the session, she was tabbed to deliver the national GOP response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address. With overwhelming Republican supermajorities in the state legislature, passage of her agenda is meeting with little resistance.
→← “THE PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS, IN THEIR VAST WISDOM, HAVE ENTRUSTED A NEW GENERATION TO LEAD. THIS IS OUR MOMENT. THIS IS OUR OPPORTUNITY. AND YOU AND I ARE THE LEADERS WHO THE PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN TO GET THE JOB DONE.” – Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Arkansas
photography by Randall Lee
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