| Senator Justin Boyd was elected in 2022 to represent District 27, which
includes most of the city of Fort Smith in Sebastian County.
Senator Boyd is the Senate vice chair of the Legislative Council and vice
chair of the Senate Insurance and Commerce Committee. He is a member
of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, the Senate Rules,
Resolutions and Memorials Committee, the Legislative Council, the Joint
Retirement and Social Security Committee and the Legislative Joint
Auditing Committee.
Senator Boyd served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2015
through 2022. As a House member he served as vice co-chair of the Joint
Budget Committee and was a member of the House Insurance and
Commerce Committee and the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor
Committee.
In the 94th General Assembly, Senator Boyd sponsored legislation to allow
hospital pharmacies to sell medications upon discharge of patients. This
allowed patients to avoid going to a separate pharmacy before they
returned home. He was the lead Senate sponsor of Act 359 of 2023 that
funded the Arkansas Economic Development Commission's feasibility
study for a spaceport in Arkansas.
In past legislature sessions, Senator Boyd sponsored legislation to
strengthen the Arkansas prescription monitoring program. He also
sponsored bill to allow pharmacists to prescribe, administer, deliver,
distribute or dispense vaccines immunization and medications to treat
adverse reactions to vaccines. He also sponsored legislation to require
Hepatitis C screening during pregnancy and to increase the capacity of
pepper spray and tear gas containers.
Senator Boyd is a pharmacist at Coleman Pharmacy in Alma. He has been
Clinical Pharmacy Coordinator/Section Manager of Pharmacy Operations
for Mercy Hospitals, and Clinical Pharmacist for Washington Regional
Medical Center
He earned his Associates Degree from what is now the University of
Arkansas at Fort Smith and earned a Doctorate of Pharmacy at the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy. He
pursued his education at the Walton College of Business at the University
of Arkansas and earned his MBA.
He serves on the board of Project Compassion, and the governing board of
Methodist Village Senior Living. He is a past president of the Morning
Exchange Club.
Senator Boyd has served on the Arkansas Board of Pharmacy. He is a past
president of the Arkansas Association of Health Systems Pharmacists and
a past board member of the Arkansas Pharmacists Association.
Senator Boyd received the Distinguished Young Pharmacist Award from
the Arkansas Pharmacists Association, and in 2022 received the Guy
Newcomb Award from the Arkansas Pharmacists Association.
He belongs to the Quality Deer Management Association, the National Wild
Turkey Federation and the National Community Pharmacists Association.
A native of Fort Smith, he lives there with his wife Lori and his three
daughters. He is a member of St. Boniface Church of Fort Smith. |