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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Robin Dale Hall Lundstrum
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| birth_date=December 28, 1962
| residence=Springdale, Benton County, Arkansas
|office=[[Arkansas]] State Representative for District 87 (Benton and Washington counties)
| term_start=January 1, 2015
| term_end=
| preceded=Jonathan Barnett
| succeeded=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=[[University of Arkansas]] (Fayetteville)
| occupation=[[Business]]woman
| spouse=Thomas Duane Lundstrum
| children=Mary Grace Lundstrum<br>
Thomas David Lundstrum<br>
'''Parents'':<br>
Oscar Maxey and Margie Lyn Honeycutt Hall
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]:<br>
}}
'''Robin Dale Hall Lundstrum''' (born December 28, 1962<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/robin-lundstrum/robinlundstrum?valid=true&|title=Robin Lundstrum|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref> is a property manager for an investment company in Springdale, [[Arkansas]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 87 in a portion of Benton and Washington counties in the northwestern portion of her state.<ref name=rhl>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansashouse.org/member/373/Robin-Lundstrum|title=Robin Lundstrum|publisher=arkansashouse.org|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}</ref>
==Background==
Lundstrum is the daughter of Oscar Maxey "Max" Hall, also known as "Red" Hall (1936-2000), a native of the capital city of [[Little Rock]] and a 35-year resident of northwestern Arkansas. A [[civil engineer]], land surveyor, and [[real estate]] broker,Hall was instrumental in the development of the Springdale Municipal Airport. As a [[helicopter]] pilot for the [[United States Army]] in the [[Vietnam War]], Hall nicknamed his 120th Aviation Company "The Razorbacks" after h'' [[alma mater]],'' the [[University of Arkansas]] at Fayetteville. He completed 540 combat hours and 812 missions. His ships faced ground fire twenty-five times but lost no crew members. Hall earned twenty-two air medals. He served in the [[Gulf War]] as a chief warrant officer with the 374th Army Reserve Medical Detachment from Little Rock. At the age of fifty-four, he was the oldest helicopter pilot trainer in the [[Persian Gulf]]. He died at the age of sixty-four of a [[cancer]] attributed to the long-term effects of exposure to [[Agent Orange]] in [[South Vietnam]]. He is interred at Elm Springs Cemetery in Washington County.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hall&GSfn=Oscar&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=4&GScnty=164&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=37189883&df=all&|title=Oscar Maxey "Max" Hall|publisher=''Mt. Echo Newspaper'' (since ''The Mountaineer Echo'')|location=Flippin, Marion County, Arkansas|author=Dawn Gray|date=September 25, 2000|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}</ref>
Lundstrum's mother, Margie Lyn Honeycutt Hall (born c. 1937) of Springdale, is a retired nurse. A nursing [[scholarship]] at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is named fin her honor. Lundstrum has a younger sister, Toni Maxine Hall Crowder of Fredericksburg, [[Virginia]].<ref name=obit/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bananahelicopter.wordpress.com/red/|title=Flying Bananas|publisher=bananahelicopter.wordpress.com|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}</ref>
Lundstrum received three degrees, two in professional education and a doctorate in health science, from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. From 1989 to 1998, she was a faculty member at the private John Brown University in Siloam Springs in Benton County. Since 1993, she has been the president of Cypress Investments in Springdale.<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/150264/robin-lundstrum#.VSna68stEqR|title=Robin Lundstrum|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
Lundstrum is a [[Southern Baptist]] and attends The Cross Church in Springdale, formerly known as the First Baptist Church of Springdale; her pastor is Ronnie Floyd, the 2014 president of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. She and her husband, Thomas Duane Lundstrum (born c. 1963), a businessman, have two children, Mary Grace and Thomas David Lundstrum. She is a member of [[Rotary International]] and the [[Chamber of Commerce]] in both Springdale and Siloam Springs.<ref name=pvs/> She formerly resided in Fayetteville as well as Rogers and Bella Vista in Benton County.<ref name=inteli/>
==Political life==
Lundstrum has been active in many Republican campaigns in northwestern Arkansas, including those for [[George W. Bush]] for [[U.S. President]] in 2000 and 2004, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948-2006)]], the son of the late [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], for lieutenant governor in 2002, and the late [[Fay Boozman]] and his brother, [[John Boozman]], for the [[United States Senate]] elections of 1998 and 2010, respectively. She is former vice president of the Washington County Republican Women and a second vice-chairman of the state Republican Party. She is a member of [[Phyllis Schlafly]]'s [[cconservative]] [[Eagle Forum]].<ref name=pvs/>
A former member of the city council in Elm Springs,<ref name=pvs/> Lundstrum in 2014 sought the District 87 seat in the Arkansas House vacated by the term-limited Republican Jonathan Barnett.
In the May 20 [[primary]] election, she defeated Lucas Spencer Roebuck (born c. 1964) of Siloam Springs, an employee of John Brown University, by 412 votes in a low-turnout race, 1,588 (57.5 percent) to 1,176 (42.5 percent), to gain the Republican nomination. She was then unopposed in the November 4 [[general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2014|title=District 87|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
Representative Lundstrum is assigned to the House committees on: (1) Energy (joint), (2) Insurance and Commerce, and (3) Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.<ref name=rhl/>In February 2015, Lundstrum joined dozens of her fellow Republicans and two [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] in co-sponsoring legislation submitted by Representative [[Lane Jean]] of Magnolia, to reduce unemployment compensation benefits. The measure was promptly signed into law by current Republican [[Governor]] [[Asa Hutchinson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/19578/51495/129425/reduces-unemployment-benefits#.VR3Zr_l4rGY|title=HB 1489 - Reduces Unemployment Benefits - Key Vote|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
That same month Lundstrum supported House Bill 1228, sponsored by Republican Robert Allen "Bob" Ballinger (born 1974) of Carroll County, which sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/19610/51617/141580/prohibits-government-from-burdening-exercise-of-religion#.VSl8TsstEqQ|title=HB 1228|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=April 11, 2015}}</ref> The measure passed the House, seventy-two to twenty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/19610/51617/141580/prohibits-government-from-burdening-exercise-of-religion#.VSl8TsstEqQ|title=HB 1228|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref> One of the opponents, Democratic Representative Camille Bennett], a former city attorney for Lonoke, Arkansas, called for a reworking of the legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlanticbb.net/news/read/category/General/article/the_associated_press-indiana_arkansas_try_to_stem_religious_objections-ap|title=Indiana, Arkansas try to stem religious objections uproar|publisher=Atlantic Broadband|date=April 3, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref> Bennett claimed that Ballinger's bill would establish a "type of religious litmus test" which could impact nearly any law under consideration by the legislature.<ref name=religiousfreedom>{{cite web|url=http://www.fox16.com/story/d/story/opponents-of-religious-freedom-bill-point-out-law/24249/AsrrUGLEdkuquASB01ZrLA|title=Opponents of Religious Freedom Bill Point Out Law Differences, Possible Unintended Consequences|publisher=Fox Channel 16|location=[[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]]|date=April 1, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref> The measure was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, SB 975, by Governor Hutchinson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/2015/04/02/house-committee-passes-new-rfra-bill-headed-for-full-house/70828864/|title=Gov. Hutchinson signs revised religious freedom bill; HB 1228 recalled|publisher=KTHV-TV|location=Little Rock|date=April 2, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]
| name=Robin Dale Hall Lundstrum
| birth_place=Place of birth missing
| birth_date=December 28, 1962
| residence=Springdale, Benton County, Arkansas
|office=[[Arkansas]] State Representative for District 87 (Benton and Washington counties)
| term_start=January 1, 2015
| term_end=
| preceded=Jonathan Barnett
| succeeded=
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| alma_mater=[[University of Arkansas]] (Fayetteville)
| occupation=[[Business]]woman
| spouse=Thomas Duane Lundstrum
| children=Mary Grace Lundstrum<br>
Thomas David Lundstrum<br>
'''Parents'':<br>
Oscar Maxey and Margie Lyn Honeycutt Hall
| religion=[[Southern Baptist]]:<br>
}}
'''Robin Dale Hall Lundstrum''' (born December 28, 1962<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mylife.com/robin-lundstrum/robinlundstrum?valid=true&|title=Robin Lundstrum|publisher=Mylife.com|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref> is a property manager for an investment company in Springdale, [[Arkansas]], who is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] state representative for District 87 in a portion of Benton and Washington counties in the northwestern portion of her state.<ref name=rhl>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansashouse.org/member/373/Robin-Lundstrum|title=Robin Lundstrum|publisher=arkansashouse.org|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}</ref>
==Background==
Lundstrum is the daughter of Oscar Maxey "Max" Hall, also known as "Red" Hall (1936-2000), a native of the capital city of [[Little Rock]] and a 35-year resident of northwestern Arkansas. A [[civil engineer]], land surveyor, and [[real estate]] broker,Hall was instrumental in the development of the Springdale Municipal Airport. As a [[helicopter]] pilot for the [[United States Army]] in the [[Vietnam War]], Hall nicknamed his 120th Aviation Company "The Razorbacks" after h'' [[alma mater]],'' the [[University of Arkansas]] at Fayetteville. He completed 540 combat hours and 812 missions. His ships faced ground fire twenty-five times but lost no crew members. Hall earned twenty-two air medals. He served in the [[Gulf War]] as a chief warrant officer with the 374th Army Reserve Medical Detachment from Little Rock. At the age of fifty-four, he was the oldest helicopter pilot trainer in the [[Persian Gulf]]. He died at the age of sixty-four of a [[cancer]] attributed to the long-term effects of exposure to [[Agent Orange]] in [[South Vietnam]]. He is interred at Elm Springs Cemetery in Washington County.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Hall&GSfn=Oscar&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=4&GScnty=164&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=37189883&df=all&|title=Oscar Maxey "Max" Hall|publisher=''Mt. Echo Newspaper'' (since ''The Mountaineer Echo'')|location=Flippin, Marion County, Arkansas|author=Dawn Gray|date=September 25, 2000|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}</ref>
Lundstrum's mother, Margie Lyn Honeycutt Hall (born c. 1937) of Springdale, is a retired nurse. A nursing [[scholarship]] at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is named fin her honor. Lundstrum has a younger sister, Toni Maxine Hall Crowder of Fredericksburg, [[Virginia]].<ref name=obit/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bananahelicopter.wordpress.com/red/|title=Flying Bananas|publisher=bananahelicopter.wordpress.com|accessdate=April 12, 2015}}</ref>
Lundstrum received three degrees, two in professional education and a doctorate in health science, from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. From 1989 to 1998, she was a faculty member at the private John Brown University in Siloam Springs in Benton County. Since 1993, she has been the president of Cypress Investments in Springdale.<ref name=pvs>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/150264/robin-lundstrum#.VSna68stEqR|title=Robin Lundstrum|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
Lundstrum is a [[Southern Baptist]] and attends The Cross Church in Springdale, formerly known as the First Baptist Church of Springdale; her pastor is Ronnie Floyd, the 2014 president of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. She and her husband, Thomas Duane Lundstrum (born c. 1963), a businessman, have two children, Mary Grace and Thomas David Lundstrum. She is a member of [[Rotary International]] and the [[Chamber of Commerce]] in both Springdale and Siloam Springs.<ref name=pvs/> She formerly resided in Fayetteville as well as Rogers and Bella Vista in Benton County.<ref name=inteli/>
==Political life==
Lundstrum has been active in many Republican campaigns in northwestern Arkansas, including those for [[George W. Bush]] for [[U.S. President]] in 2000 and 2004, Winthrop Paul Rockefeller (1948-2006)]], the son of the late [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], for lieutenant governor in 2002, and the late [[Fay Boozman]] and his brother, [[John Boozman]], for the [[United States Senate]] elections of 1998 and 2010, respectively. She is former vice president of the Washington County Republican Women and a second vice-chairman of the state Republican Party. She is a member of [[Phyllis Schlafly]]'s [[cconservative]] [[Eagle Forum]].<ref name=pvs/>
A former member of the city council in Elm Springs,<ref name=pvs/> Lundstrum in 2014 sought the District 87 seat in the Arkansas House vacated by the term-limited Republican Jonathan Barnett.
In the May 20 [[primary]] election, she defeated Lucas Spencer Roebuck (born c. 1964) of Siloam Springs, an employee of John Brown University, by 412 votes in a low-turnout race, 1,588 (57.5 percent) to 1,176 (42.5 percent), to gain the Republican nomination. She was then unopposed in the November 4 [[general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ballotpedia.org/Arkansas_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2014|title=District 87|publisher=ballotpedia.org|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
Representative Lundstrum is assigned to the House committees on: (1) Energy (joint), (2) Insurance and Commerce, and (3) Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.<ref name=rhl/>In February 2015, Lundstrum joined dozens of her fellow Republicans and two [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] in co-sponsoring legislation submitted by Representative [[Lane Jean]] of Magnolia, to reduce unemployment compensation benefits. The measure was promptly signed into law by current Republican [[Governor]] [[Asa Hutchinson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/19578/51495/129425/reduces-unemployment-benefits#.VR3Zr_l4rGY|title=HB 1489 - Reduces Unemployment Benefits - Key Vote|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref>
That same month Lundstrum supported House Bill 1228, sponsored by Republican Robert Allen "Bob" Ballinger (born 1974) of Carroll County, which sought to prohibit government from imposing a burden on the free exercise of religion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/19610/51617/141580/prohibits-government-from-burdening-exercise-of-religion#.VSl8TsstEqQ|title=HB 1228|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=April 11, 2015}}</ref> The measure passed the House, seventy-two to twenty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/19610/51617/141580/prohibits-government-from-burdening-exercise-of-religion#.VSl8TsstEqQ|title=HB 1228|publisher=Project Vote Smart|accessdate=September 3, 2020}}</ref> One of the opponents, Democratic Representative Camille Bennett], a former city attorney for Lonoke, Arkansas, called for a reworking of the legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atlanticbb.net/news/read/category/General/article/the_associated_press-indiana_arkansas_try_to_stem_religious_objections-ap|title=Indiana, Arkansas try to stem religious objections uproar|publisher=Atlantic Broadband|date=April 3, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref> Bennett claimed that Ballinger's bill would establish a "type of religious litmus test" which could impact nearly any law under consideration by the legislature.<ref name=religiousfreedom>{{cite web|url=http://www.fox16.com/story/d/story/opponents-of-religious-freedom-bill-point-out-law/24249/AsrrUGLEdkuquASB01ZrLA|title=Opponents of Religious Freedom Bill Point Out Law Differences, Possible Unintended Consequences|publisher=Fox Channel 16|location=[[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]]|date=April 1, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref> The measure was subsequently passed by a large margin in the House and signed into law in revised form, SB 975, by Governor Hutchinson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thv11.com/story/news/local/2015/04/02/house-committee-passes-new-rfra-bill-headed-for-full-house/70828864/|title=Gov. Hutchinson signs revised religious freedom bill; HB 1228 recalled|publisher=KTHV-TV|location=Little Rock|date=April 2, 2015|accessdate=April 14, 2015}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lundstrum, Robin}}
[[Category:Arkansas]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Women]]
[[Category:Southern Baptists]]