A member of the
Blackfeet Nation, Her son,
Jeremy Hutchinson, is a former state representative who has served since 2011 in the
Arkansas State Senate from a district in
Little Rock.
Timothy Chad Hutchinson, Jeremy's twin brother from
Springdale, previously served with his mother in the state House. The twins were born in 1974 in
Kansas City,
Kansas. A third son, Joshua Luke Hutchinson (born 1978) resided in 2013 in
Keller, near
Fort Worth,
Texas, and was formerly a resident of
Rogers, Arkansas.
Tim Hutchinson, Donna Hutchinson's former husband, from whom she was divorced in 1999 after twenty-nine years of marriage, served from 1997 to 2003 as the first Republican
U.S. senator from Arkansas since 1879, two years after the close of
Reconstruction. In 2000, a year after the divorce from Donna, Tim Hutchinson married in a private ceremony his former staffer and state director, Randi Fredholm, who is fourteen years his junior. She had left Hutchinson's employ in 1998 to attend law school. Hutchinson asked his sons not to attend the wedding out of respect for their mother. He called the collapse of his first marriage an "intensely personal thing." In 2002, Tim Hutchinson was unseated by former Democratic
state Attorney General Mark Pryor. Tim and Randi Hutchinson are employed by the Dickstein Shapiro firm, he as senior advisor and she as an attorney, and the couple resides in
Alexandria,
Virginia. As a congressional wife from 1993 to 1999, Donna Hutchinson had remained in Arkansas. Tim Hutchinson had filed for divorce on grounds that the couple had lived apart for more than eighteen months, the requirement for an uncontested divorce in Arkansas. Her former brother-in-law,
Asa Hutchinson, is a Republican former member of the
United States House of Representatives for
Arkansas's 3rd congressional district and former Administrator of the
Drug Enforcement Administration. In 2014 he was elected as
governor of Arkansas. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1996, Tim Hutchinson had preceded his brother as representative for the Third Congressional District. ==Political career==