Rep French Hill represents central Arkansas in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2014. He is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance. In April 2020, French was appointed as the House Republican representative to the CARES Act Congressional Oversight Commission to conduct oversight of the Treasury’s delivery of emergency funds. In 2021, he was appointed as one of two Congressional representatives to the 76th U.N. General Assembly. From Little Rock, French has been involved in his community for two decades as a commercial banker and investment manager. He was founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Delta Trust & Banking Corp., which was headquartered in Little Rock and merged with Arkansas-based Simmons First National Corp. French’s prior public service includes managing the work of Sen. John Tower and the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban affairs. Prior to that, he served in the Pres. George H.W. Bush administration, first as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance and then in the White House as Executive Secretary to the President’s Economic Policy Council (EPC). He graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Economics and resides with his family in Little Rock.