Attorney General Dustin McDaniel
MAGNOLIA – Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will be the keynote speaker for the 2011 Honors College matriculation ceremony at Southern Arkansas University.
The ceremony will be at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 25, in Foundation Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. A reception will follow in the second floor atrium. The events are open to the public.
McDaniel is in his second term as Attorney General of Arkansas. During his tenure, he has championed issues from the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Lake View school-funding decision to eliminating illegal payday lending operations from the state and creating the first-ever Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau, which acts as a health care industry watchdog and assists Arkansans with complaints and concerns related to health care. Under McDaniel’s watch, the state secured its largest-ever settlement with a pharmaceutical company: $18.5 million to settle allegations that pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly made improper marketing claims about its drug Zyprexa.
The Jonesboro native and former police officer is chairman of the Southern Region of the National Association of Attorneys General and co-chair of the Democratic Association of Attorneys General. He currently serves as co-chairman of the National Association of Attorneys General’s Tobacco Committee. As co-chairman, McDaniel oversees compliance of about $6 billion in annual payments to the states.
General McDaniel is married to the former Bobbi Fowler. He has one daughter, Emma Grace, and two step-children, C.J. and Alex. He is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.
