Little Rock’s longest-serving member of the City Board of Directors is being challenged by a political newcomer in the race for Position 10.
Joan Adcock was first elected to the city board in 1992. She moved to Little Rock with her family from their chicken farm in Danville, and after high school, started a children’s clothing store.
“I did that for about 30 years,” said Adcock. “Southwest Little Rock was in the county, and the city decided they wanted southwest Little Rock, and they positioned the county judge and he gave it to them. We had no vote in it. We had lots of drainage problems, flooding and street problems ,and the city told us they would fix everything, which they haven’t completed all that yet. I wanted to be on the board to make sure southwest Little Rock had a say in what was going on.”…