Arkansas Senate Minority Leader Keith Ingram, D-West Memphis, will not seek re-election following his current term. Ingram has been a member of the Arkansas Legislature since 2009 when he was first elected to the State House.

He didn’t give a specific reason for not seeking another term. However, he did say that this last term was by far the most tumultuous of his tenure as partisan politics dominated the session.

“It has been a tremendous honor and a privilege to serve the people of my district, and if you were to exclude this year, I have enjoyed working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to make Arkansas a better place to live, work and learn,” he said. “There isn’t a day I walk the Senate chambers that I don’t think back and appreciate all those who came before me and what it means to be a member of this body. I first walked onto the floor of the Arkansas Senate when I was eight years old, and I had a sense of awe for this institution and its elected leaders. I still carry that sense of awe for this institution to this day.”

After serving in the House from 2009 to 2012, Ingram was elected to the State Senate.

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