The Arkansas Bar Association (ArkBar) is pleased to announce Tim Cullen as the new President-Elect Designee. Cullen, of Fayetteville, was elected without opposition at the close of nominations on October 6, 2025. He will begin his one-year term as President-Elect in June 2026 and will assume the office of President at the 2027 ArkBar Annual Meeting.
Tim graduated from the University of Arkansas with a B.A. in Communications and earned his J.D. from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1996. He clerked for Judge Terry Crabtree at the Arkansas Court of Appeals before entering private practice.
He has been active in the Arkansas Bar Association, serving as Chair of the Young Lawyers Section and as a member of the Board of Governors, House of Delegates, Board of Trustees, and Jurisprudence and Law Reform Committee. He also chaired the Governance Drafting Committee and has received three Golden Gavel Awards for his bar association service. He is a Fellow in the Arkansas Bar Foundation, where he received the Foundation’s Writing Award for an article in The Arkansas Lawyer on judicial campaign finance. He also served a term on the Board of Governors for the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association.
In his spare time, Tim is an adult volunteer with Scouting America and serves on the Executive Board as a past president of the Natural State Council of Scouting America.
Tim has participated as lead counsel on appeal in well over 250 cases before the Arkansas Supreme Court, Arkansas Court of Appeals, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has served on the AMI–Civil Committee, the Arkansas Supreme Court Task Force on Electronic Filing, and the 8th Circuit Federal Practice Committee.
Tim relocated from Little Rock to Fayetteville two years ago. His wife, Dr. Lauren Poindexter, is a sports medicine specialist practicing in Fayetteville. Tim’s three kids are grown up. Katie rides the subway to work every day from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Connor is in his third year of law school at UA Fayetteville. And Quinn is a sophomore accounting major at Indiana. Their dog, Olaf, keeps the nest from feeling too empty.
#News