Lee Johnson is an American politician who has served as a member of the

Arkansas House of Representatives The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...

since January 2019. He currently represents Arkansas' 47th House district. He has also worked on the Greenwood city council.

Electoral history

He was first elected in the 2018 Arkansas House of Representatives election to the 75th district unopposed. He was reelected in the 2020 Arkansas House of Representatives election unopposed. He ran for the 47th district unopposed in the 2022 Arkansas House of Representatives election due to redistricting.

Biography

Johnson earned a

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

from

Hendrix College Hendrix College is a private liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Approximately 1,000 students are enrolled, mostly undergraduates. While affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the college offers a secular curriculum and has a stude ...

and an

Doctor of Medicine Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin language, Latin ''Medicinae Doctor'') is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions. In the United States, and some other countries, the M.D. denotes a profes ...

from the

University of Arkansas The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and the largest university in the state. Founded as Arkansas ...

. Outside of politics, he is a

Physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

. He was born and raised in

Greenwood, Arkansas Greenwood is a city in and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States. It is the fifth largest municipality in the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area with a population of 8,952 according to ...

. He is a graduate of Greenwood High School.

References

Republican Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives 21st-century American legislators Living people University of Arkansas alumni Hendrix College alumni 21st-century American physicians People from Greenwood, Arkansas Arkansas city council members Year of birth missing (living people) {{arkansas-politician-stub