SPRINGDALE, Ark. — A special election will be called to fill the term of Republican state Sen. Lance Eads, who resigned from his position Thursday, Oct. 28, to take a job in the private sector.
Eads, who won re-election last year to a four-year term, represented a district in northwest Arkansas that includes Springdale and parts of eastern Washington County.
He said he was resigning to take a consultant job with the Little Rock-based lobbying firm Capitol Consulting Firm.
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Eads will remain a resident of northwest Arkansas.