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Board of Visitors

Board of Visitors Members

Jimmy Tumey, Chair

Mr. Tumey was born and raised in McGehee, Arkansas (1951-1969). A 1969 graduate of McGehee High School, Mr. Tumey joined the United States Air Force (1970-1974) where he was stationed in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In 1978 Mr. Tumey graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. Mr. Tumey was in the Pulp & Paper industry for 32 years working for Proctor & Gamble, Nekoosa Papers Georgia Pacific, and Domtar Paper Mill until entering retirement in 2010.

Mr. Tumey is a member of the Little River Intermodal Authority Board and serves as a Deacon and Sunday school teacher for Ashdown First Baptist Church. He resides in Ashdown with his wife, Nancy of 33 years. Together they have four children and eight grandchildren.

Tim Pinkerton, Vice Chair

A native of Umpire, Pinkerton currently resides in Nashville and is Senior Vice-President of First State Bank in Dierks.

Pinkerton is a 1982 Business Administration graduate of Henderson State University. He is a member of Rotary and a board member for the Howard County Children’s Center. Pinkerton is married to the former Dena Brewer of Bismarck and has one daughter, Lauren Zylks, of Conway. He is also a member of First Baptist Church in Nashville.

Angie Walker, Secretary

Born and raised in Northeast Arkansas, Angie Walker is a 1997 graduate of Remington College in Little Rock, Arkansas with an associate degree in Legal Studies.

In 2003, she and her husband Dr. Randy Walker relocated to De Queen to establish Walker Family Practice Clinic to care for the residents of Sevier County. The Walkers employ UA Cossatot graduates as nursing staff.

Since then, Walker has led numerous healthcare quality improvement projects for the state. Some of these projects include the Medicare Care Management Program, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease program, and Chronic Kidney Disease program with the Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care; the Arkansas Chronic Illness Collaborative and Arkansas Clinic Transformation with the Arkansas Department of Health; and the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

Walker also serves as an active board member for the First State Bank of De Queen, the Industrial Park Board, and Aledade. She is also a Sevier County Justice of the Peace, 6th District.

Tyler Davis

Tyler Davis is a native of Ashdown, Arkansas. He is a 2002 graduate of Ashdown High School and a 2006 graduate of the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville with a BS in Agriculture, Food, and Life Sciences.

He currently serves as Market President for Diamond Bank in Ashdown and resides on his farm with his wife and four children. Tyler also serves on the Little River County Intermodal and Economic Development Authority and as Justice of the Peace.

Barbara Dixon

Barbara was born and raised in Texarkana, graduating from Liberty-Eylau High School in 1979 and attended Texarkana Community College. She has lived in Lockesburg since 1984 and is married to Kenny Dixon with two sons and three granddaughters.

Barbara currently serves as Branch President of Bank of Lockesburg and has worked in the banking field for 35 years. She also attended the three-year banking school program held at the Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, known as the Paul W Barret, Jr Graduate School of Banking, graduating cum laude in 2012.

Barbara is proud to be part of the Lockesburg Community and appreciates the value of having the former Lockesburg School campuses again being used for educational purposes. She has also served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Lockesburg Lion’s Club since 2016. Her hobbies include reading, quilting, being outdoors, and being with family.

Barbara Horn

Senator Barbara Horn served in the Senate for 10 years, from 2001 through 2010. In the 87th General Assembly she chaired the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee.

Senator Horn is a businesswoman who ran the Horn Insurance Agency of Ashdown. She is a Past President of Little River Chamber of Commerce.

In recognition of her work for the citizens of southwest Arkansas, a portion of Highway 41 in and near Foreman was named after Senator Horn.

In 2009, more than 200 people celebrated the grand opening of the Barbara Horn Civic Center at the Little River campus of Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas. She has been an active supporter of the Little River campus since it opened in 1996.

In 2019, she was bestowed the rank of UA Cossatot Board Member Emeritus. Senator Horn served as a member of the UA Cossatot Board of Visitors for the previous 17 years, during which time she was largely responsible for acquiring the necessary funding to secure the current location of UA Cossatot’s Ashdown campus.

The board acknowledged that Senator Horn had gone above and beyond the normal call of duty to serve as a long-time board member of UA Cossatot. Board members expressed their appreciation for her dedicated service and her continued friendship.

She is a native of Mountain Pine, in Garland County. Her late husband, Hoye Horn, was Little River County Judge, a Korean War veteran, and a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. They have three children.

Dr. Glenn Lance

Robert Martinez

Robert Martinez is owner of Rancho La Esperanza in De Queen.Robert has served the college as a member of the board since 2000 and currently serves as the Vice-Chair for the Board of Visitors. He was influential in the college joining the University of Arkansas system. After the college joined the UA system in 2001, Martinez continued to serve on the Board of Visitors at Cossatot.

Robert also serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, CHRISTUS St. Michael Hospital Health System Board of Directors, Arkansas Farm Bureau, and Sevier County Farm Service Agency.

Brenda Tate

Brenda Green Tate graduated from Ashdown High School in 1975 and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1978. She has one son and three grandchildren. She retired May 21, 2020, from Ashdown Elementary School. During her 41 years of teaching, she learned to be patient, teach and love the children! She enjoys riding her bicycle, walking, working on word find puzzles, and keeping in touch with family and friends.

Schedule of Board of Visitors Meetings

*September 13, 2021

UA Cossatot Bank of Lockesburg Gymnasium

November 1, 2021
UA Cossatot Bank of Lockesburg Gymnasium

*January 10, 2022
UA Cossatot Bank of Lockesburg Gymnasium

March 7, 2022
UA Cossatot Bank of Lockesburg Gymnasium

May 2, 2022
UA Cossatot Bank of Lockesburg Gymnasium

*These dates are the second Monday of the month due to the first Monday being a holiday.

All UA Cossatot Board of Visitors meetings are open to the public.

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