{"id":1871,"date":"2011-09-19T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2011-10-08T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:50:14","slug":"attorney-general-will-speak-at-sau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/2011\/attorney-general-will-speak-at-sau\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General will speak at SAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1872\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1872\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1872\" src=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/DBM-Headshots-003-scaled.jpg 1463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Dustin McDaniel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>MAGNOLIA<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 <\/strong>Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will be the keynote speaker for the 2011 Honors College matriculation ceremony at Southern Arkansas University.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel is in his second term as Attorney General of Arkansas. During his tenure, he has championed issues from the Arkansas Supreme Court\u2019s Lake View school-funding decision to eliminating illegal payday lending operations from the state and creating the first-ever Attorney General\u2019s Health Care Bureau, which acts as a health care industry watchdog and assists Arkansans with complaints and concerns related to health care. Under McDaniel\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Tobacco Committee. As co-chairman, McDaniel oversees compliance of about $6 billion in annual payments to the states.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel will be the keynote speaker for the 2011 Honors College matriculation ceremony at Southern Arkansas University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":1872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[271,140,181,207,308,276,159,288],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-business","9":"category-education","10":"category-college-of-liberal-performing-arts","11":"category-college-of-science-and-technology","12":"category-community-corner","13":"category-honors-college","14":"category-regional-news","15":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.saumag.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}