# Steven Person Steven Person is the Justice of the Peace representing District 5 on the Pulaski County Quorum Court. He began serving in 2025; his current term runs from 2025-01-01 through 2026-12-31. He sits on the Quorum Court's Agenda Committee (primary public record, [Pulaski County official Quorum Court directory, archived 2026-05-28](../../web%20archive/2026-05-28/pulaskicounty.net/quorum-court.md)). Person filed in 2025 as a candidate for Arkansas state House District 77 and is expected to be on the November 2026 general-election ballot for that seat; his JP seat will turn over at the close of his 2025-2026 term on 2026-12-31 at the latest, and earlier if he resigns the JP role upon election or swearing-in to the state House. ## Role and affiliations - **Justice of the Peace, Pulaski County Quorum Court, District 5.** Current term: 2025-01-01 through 2026-12-31. - **Committee assignment:** Agenda Committee. - **Service-start year:** 2025 (first term). - **Party affiliation:** not publicly disclosed on the Pulaski County official directory as of 2026-05-28. Person's candidacy for Arkansas House District 77 (filed 2025) carries a party-at-filing-time on Arkansas Secretary of State filings; that record is Tier-3 evidence not pulled here. - **November 2026 ballot status (Quorum Court District 5):** not on the JP ballot — Person is running for state House District 77 instead. ## Contact - **Email:** `[email protected]` (personal address published by Pulaski County on the official directory). - **Phone:** not published by Pulaski County on the official directory as of 2026-05-28. The directory lists Person without a phone number. - **Mailing address:** Pulaski County Quorum Court, 201 S. Broadway, Suite 410, Little Rock, AR 72203. ## Data center positions - **2026-05-26 vote on the data-center moratorium ordinance (26-I-37A):** Steven Person's recorded roll-call position is not established. The certified records were produced via NextRequest #26-341 on 2026-05-29 (see [[2026-05 Pulaski County Clerk Produces Quorum Court Moratorium Records]]), but the [[Certified Quorum Court Voting Worksheets 2026-05-26|certified voting worksheets]] are handwritten and embody the count the Clerk later disavowed — so no legible per-JP tally exists. Now Tier-1: the moratorium **did not pass** ([[Pulaski County Clerk Statement on the Corrected Moratorium Vote]]); it was sponsored by Justices [[Rebekah L. Davis|Davis]], [[Tina Ward|Ward]], and [[Julie Blackwood|Blackwood]], with the grandfather amendment by [[Phil Stowers|Stowers]]. See [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Vote on Data Center Moratorium]]. > [!web-research-unresolved] > District 5 JP Steven Person's specific vote on 26-I-37A and on the [[Phil Stowers|Stowers]] amendment is not cleanly established: the #26-341 production's certified worksheets are handwritten and reflect the disavowed miscount. A reliable per-JP tally would require the 2026-05-26 meeting video (Swagit link, archived 2026-05-29). ## Appearances in the corpus - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Vote on Data Center Moratorium]] — sitting JP at the 2026-05-26 meeting. - [[Pulaski County Quorum Court Directory]] — directory landing page. ## Notes - District 5 covers, per an uncorroborated neighborhood-level description, "SWLR / Kanis / John Barrow." This is not Tier-2 evidence; the neighborhood-level claim is gap-disclosed pending a Tier-2 source. - An uncorroborated characterization tagged Person as "Rep-elect District 77." That tag is premature: the Arkansas state House general election is 2026-11-03, after which the elected Representative would be sworn in at the start of the 2027 legislative session. As of 2026-05-28 Person remains a sitting JP, having filed for but not yet won the House seat. The wiki's directory page reflects this status as `on_ballot_nov_2026: running_other_office`. - The District 5 JP seat will turn over to a new occupant in the 2027-2028 biennial term regardless of Person's election outcome. If Person wins the November 2026 House race and resigns the JP seat early (e.g., upon swearing-in to the House in January 2027), the seat would be filled by appointment or special election under Arkansas county-government law; the wiki will document any such transition as a separate event.