Nate Steel is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives
The Arkansas State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Arkansas General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Arkansas. The House is composed of 100 members elected from an equal amount of constituencies across the ...
from 2011 to 2015. During the 89th General Assembly session from 2013 to 2015, Steel served on the Judiciary committee.
Education
Steel graduated from Nashville High School in
Nashville
Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the ...
, Arkansas. He earned his undergraduate degree from the
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and his
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
from the
University of Arkansas School of Law.
Career
Steel ran unsuccessfully for
Attorney General of Arkansas in 2014.
Steel's introductory campaign commercial, posted on YouTube, identifies
prison overcrowding
Prison overcrowding is a social phenomenon occurring when the demand for space in prisons in a jurisdiction exceeds the capacity for prisoners. The issues associated with prison overcrowding are not new, and have been brewing for many years. Dur ...
in Arkansas as a problem because the state has the second-worst meth rate in America.
Steel lost to the
Republican nominee,
Leslie Rutledge. He left office in 2015 and was succeeded in the Arkansas House by
Justin Gonzales
Justin Rory Gonzales (born c. 1982) is an employee of a logging company in Okolona, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 19, which encompasses Clark, Pike, Howard, and Hempstead counties in ...
.
Steel is an attorney and deputy prosecuting attorney. He is a member of the Howard Memorial Hospital Foundation board of directors, the Cossatot Community College U of A Foundation board of directors, and CASA for Children board of advisors.
Personal life
Steel is a
Methodist.
[http://www.arkansashouse.org/member/254/nate-steel>]
References
External links
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Twitter account
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Arkansas lawyers
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Arkansas House of Representatives
University of Arkansas alumni
University of Arkansas School of Law alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)