Susannah Marshall News Today

An Arkansas legislative panel on Wednesday endorsed the Arkansas Department of Public Safetys request to boost the salary of Arkansas State Crime Lab Chief Medical Examiner Theodore Brown by 3% from $365,750 to $376,722 a year for assuming the additional duties of State Crime Lab director.

State Bank Commissioner Susannah Marshall will take on dual roles in policing financial practices in Arkansas after being appointed by the governor on Friday to also assume leadership of the Securities Department.

The Arkansas Senate on Friday confirmed eight of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointments to state posts, including the governors appointment of former state Rep. Ken Bragg, R-Sheridan, to the state Board of Education.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has reappointed Susannah Marshall as commissioner of the Arkansas State Bank Department, officials with the Arkansas Department of Commerce announced in a news release Monday.

As bank commissioner, shes responsible for the regulation, supervision and examination of Arkansas 73 state-chartered banks, which have total assets of more than $153 billion.

Marshall, who was first appointed by then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson in 2020, is the 22nd commissioner of the Arkansas State Bank Department.

Mark White, chief of staff at the state Department of Human Services, will become the next executive director of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, the systems board of trustees decided on Thursday.

The Arkansas Teacher Retirement Systems trustees will interview eight candidates for its permanent executive director post, the trustees decided on Saturday.

The Arkansas Teacher Retirement Systems trustees will interview eight candidates for its permanent executive director post, the trustees decided on Saturday.

West Little Rock branches operated by Pine Bluffs Simmons Bank and Batesvilles Citizens Bank were put out of action by a March 31 twister, along with an Eagle Bank & Trust office at 2310 E. Kiehl Ave. in Sherwood.