Prissy Hickerson

She is from Texarkana, Arkansas. Hickerson graduated from Watkins Business Institute and attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Prior to 2009, Hickerson served for ten years as a member of the Highway Commission. She is one of only two women to have chaired that panel. As commissioner, Hickerson worked for funding of Loop 245 and the construction of Arkansas Highway 549. Loop 245 is named "Hickerson Highway".[1][2] Hickerson worked to obtain construction of a highway rest area outside Texarkana. When a fellow highway commissioner tried to divert $47 million away from Texarkana projects, Hickerson fought successfully for their retention.[3]

Hickerson was an Arkansas delegate to the 2004 and 2008 Republican national conventions.[4]

Hickerson won her House seat in the general election held on November 2, 2010; she succeeded term-limited Democrat Steve Harrelson[5] Hickerson was reelected without opposition in 2012.[6]

Hickerson served on the State Agencies and Governmental Affairs, Public Transportation, and Advanced Communications and Information Technology committees. She is a member of the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.[7]

Hickerson opposes abortion and voted to ban the practice after twenty weeks of gestation or whenever fetal heartbeat is observed. She voted to declare the death of a fetus in certain situations a felony. She voted to require photo identification for voting Hickerson voted for the implementation of dress codes for public schools.[7]

She and her husband, Randall Ray Hickerson (born 1950), a dentist, have one son, Christopher Randall Hickerson.[7] She is a Baptist. She has 4 grandchildren. Sarah Hickerson, Emma Hickerson, Reagan Hickerson, and Carly Hickerson.

• Arkansas House of Representatives - District 1