Mr. Bridges was previously an attorney at the Hughes & Hughes Law Firm, a business law firm in Arkadelphia. While in private practice, Mr. Bridges represented companies and professionals in the areas of energy and natural resources law, fire subrogation and arson litigation, business organizations, commercial transactions and litigation, title insurance claims and litigation, insurance defense and community practice. He has a B.A. degree, cum laude, from Lyon College, and a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Arkansas School of Law.

C. Michael Daily is a member of the Fort Smith, Arkansas, firm Daily & Woods, P.L.L.C., where he practices primarily in the areas of real estate, and oil, gas and mineral law, including title examination and litigation. He also practices in the areas of estate planning, contract law, business law, and collection law. Mr. Daily is a graduate of Hendrix College (B.A.) and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (M.B.A. and J.D.). He is a member of the Sebastian County, Arkansas and Oklahoma bar associations, and is a member and former chair of the Marketable Title Standards Committee and the Natural Resources Law Section of the Arkansas Bar Association. Mr. Daily is licensed to practice in four mineral-producing jurisdictions: Arkansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Wyoming. He is also an adjunct professor at Northwest Arkansas Community College teaching courses in real estate law, commercial law, civil litigation and natural resource law.

Mr. Swaim has served as Executive Director of the Bayou Meto Water Management District since April of 2019. The district was formed in 1991 to provide irrigation water, flood control, and wildlife habitat to over 750,000 acres in Lonoke, Jefferson, Prairie, and Arkansas counties. The project involves multiple federal, state, local, and private partners, and is currently under construction. Prior to working for Bayou Meto, he had been chief of the Water Management Division of the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission since October of 2010. A major achievement during Mr. Swaim’s time in the job was involving over 1,000 citizens to update the Arkansas Water Plan. Since completing the plan update, implementation has included better water use reporting and data on groundwater use and availability, formulation of several watershed management plans to reduce nonpoint source pollution, creation of a statewide drought planning workgroup, and building better relationships between agencies and with the public.

Mr. Swaim was general counsel (2003 to 2010) and associate general counsel (1995 to 2001) for the Commission and an assistant attorney general (2001 to 2003). All three positions with the Natural Resources Commission included legal, data, policy, and programmatic support for the Bayou Meto project and its companion to the east, the Grand Prairie Area Demonstration Project. From 2001 to 2012, he served as a Judge Advocate officer in the US Army Reserve. He is also a member of the Plum Bayou Irrigation District board of directors. Plum Bayou distributes Arkansas River water to over 14,000 acres of farmland near England, Arkansas. Mr. Swaim is from England, Arkansas, in the Bayou Meto project area. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Hendrix College and a law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law.