Linda Chesterfield


Linda Ann Pondexter Chesterfield is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Arkansas Senate for District 30, a position that she has held since January 14, 2013. Chesterfield served consecutively in the Arkansas General Assembly from January 2011 until January 2013 in the Senate District 34 seat and non-consecutively from January 2003 until January 2009 in the Arkansas House of Representatives District 36 seat.

Education

Chesterfield graduated from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas in 1965, and was the college's first African-American graduate.

Elections

Chesterfield is the 2015 president of the Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus.