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deal stream reports .. Former Health Official Named Arkansas Insurance Commissioner
Jay Bradford, a former state health official, longtime insurance company executive and state legislator, is the new insurance commissioner in Arkansas.
Gov. Mike Beebe appointed Bradford to the position Jan. 15. He replaces Julie Benafield Bowman who resigned last month.
Bradford was director of the division of Behavioral Health Services within the Arkansas Department of Human Services for the past two years.
He previously worked in the insurance industry for more than four decades and was the founder and chairman of First Arkansas Insurance Group in Pine Bluff, according to the insurance department.
Bradford was also a state legislator in the 1980s and 1990s, serving as House speaker and Senate president pro tem.