Senator Ronald Caldwell represents Senate District 10, which is made up of Cross, Jackson, Monroe, Prairie and Woodruff Counties and parts of Arkansas, Lee, Lonoke, Poinsett and St. Francis Counties. Elected to the Senate in November of 2012, he was sworn in on the first day of the regular session of 2013.
Senator Caldwell is chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Economic Development. He is a member of the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee, Senate Rules, Resolutions and Memorials Committee, the Joint Budget Committee, the Legislative Council, the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee and the Joint Energy Committee.
In the 2025 regular session Senator Caldwell co-sponsored Act 238 to criminalize unlawful squatting. He was a sponsor of Act 285 to allow retailers to remove damaged eggs from containers and combine the remaining undamaged eggs into one container.
Senator Caldwell has successfully co-sponsored legislation to reduce individual and corporate income taxes.
In 2018 Senator Caldwell was the lead sponsor of legislation that regulates and licenses pharmacy benefit managers.
In the 92nd General Assembly, Senator Caldwell was chair of the Senate State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee which reviewed the massive Government Transformation Bill that became ACT 910 of 2019. The committee spent almost four weeks on the bill while still considering other legislation assigned to the committee. Act 910 was over 2,000 pages long and affected every department and agency in the executive branch.
Senator Caldwell is active with the Cross County Economic Development Commission, the National Rifle Association, the Dallas Safari Club, Delta Waterfowl and Honduras Medical-Dental. He is a real estate investor and the owner of Caldwell Development, LLC and Caldwell Family Enterprises, LLC. He is the past owner of Caldwell Lumber Co., Inc.
A native of Wynne, Arkansas, Senator Caldwell graduated from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. He and his wife Brenda Ann have one son, one daughter and three grandchildren. Senator Caldwell and his wife are members of the Wynne Baptist Church.
