Tonight Town Hall Meeting With AR Lt Gov Tim Griffin

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Arkansas Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin will host live on Facebook & streaming on YouTube tonight at 6 pm for a discussion with Arkansas Department of Health’s infectious disease specialist Dr. Jennifer Dillaha.

WHAT: Lieutenant Governor Griffin will host a Live town-hall streaming on Facebook/YouTubewith infectious disease specialist Dr. Jennifer Dillaha regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and what Arkansans can do to protect themselves and others from the virus.

WHEN: March 26, 6:00 PM

WHERE: Virtual town-hall hosted on Lieutenant Governor Griffin’s Facebook page and streaming on YouTube. (Note: Lieutenant Governor Griffin will host this from his office in the Arkansas State Capitol.)

About Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin

He was elected lieutenant governor of Arkansas on November 4, 2014, and was re-elected for his second four-year term on November 6, 2018. From 2011-2015, Griffin served as the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District. For the 113th Congress, he was a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means while also serving as a Deputy Whip for the Majority. In the 112th Congress, he served as a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Griffin is a graduate of Magnolia High School, Hendrix College in Conway and Tulane Law School in New Orleans, and attended graduate school at Oxford University. Griffin has served as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps, for over 22 years and currently holds the rank of colonel. In 2005, Griffin was mobilized to active duty as an Army prosecutor at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Mosul, Iraq. He is currently serving as the Commander of the 134th Legal Operations Detachment (LOD) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Prior to his current post, Griffin served as a senior legislative advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness at the Pentagon. Colonel Griffin holds a master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He also served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Political Affairs for President George W. Bush. Griffin lives in Little Rock with his wife Elizabeth, a Camden native, and their three children.