Michele Simmons Allgood is an attorney at the law firm of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard. She has over 20 years of municipal finance experience. Ms. Allgood has extensive experience in all areas of municipal  finance, including bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, issuer’s counsel, trustee’s counsel and borrower’s counsel. Clients for whom Ms. Allgood has provided assistance include state agencies, cities, counties, facility boards, and commissions.
 

Dr. Bryant is president and CEO of Bryant Consultants where he leads a unique and diverse team of professional engineers, geoscientists and technicians that have been assembled with one goal in mind–providing the most accurate representation of the earth-structure system to clients. He has more than 20 years of experience in solving soil/structure interaction problems involving natural and man-made influences. Dr. Bryant’s academic background is in the earth sciences and engineering, and includes engineering geology (BS degree -Texas A&M University), geography (MS degree -Texas A&M University), geographic information systems, geophysics and engineering (BS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering -Texas A&M University).Dr. Bryant is a registered and licensed professional engineer (P.E.) in Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado, Arizona, Tennessee, Utah and Florida; a registered professional geologist (P.G.) in Mississippi and Kansas; a registered professional geoscientist (P.G.) in Texas and Tennessee; and a certified professional geologist (CPG) in the American Institute of Professional Geologists. He is also the owner of Earth Systems Technologies, Inc. Dr. Bryant has worked on and supervised hundreds of projects ranging from tunnel excavations and rock-bolting designs, to multi-story towers, and embankment analyses involving slope stability issues. He is the author of a patented process using electrical resistivity imaging called GMMIR, and he has been involved in providing solutions for hundreds of forensic investigations involving expansive soils, collapsible soils, perched water tables, delineation of sources of moisture, and cause-and-effect relationships between the earth and man’s structures using unsaturated soil mechanics, soil dynamics concepts and diverse geophysical and analytical methods.

Stuart Spencer focuses his practice on environmental, energy, and natural resources issues. He served in various legal and managerial positions at the Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for roughly 10 years. At DEQ, he served as the Office of Air Quality (OAQ) associate director. In his role as OAQ associate director, he was the senior manager of major Clean Air Act programs including implementation of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Title V and New Source Review permitting, the Clean Power Plan and its successor, the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, and Regional Haze. He also served as DEQ’s legal policy advisor and as general counsel and served as an attorney in DEQ’s O ice of Law and Policy. He applies his broad experience as an environmental regulator to advise industry clients on a wide range of complex legal issues. Mr. Spencer earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, and received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Harding University. He is a former president of the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies and is a member of the American, Arkansas and New York Bar Associations.
 

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.

Jordan Wimpy is counsel with Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates, & Woodard, P.L.L.C., and a member of the law  firm’s Environmental Practice Group. His practice focuses on environmental, agriculture, energy, and natural resource issues. Mr. Wimpy regularly represents trade associations, utilities, and business clients in administrative rulemaking manners and all aspects of the environmental permitting, compliance, and enforcement processes. He studied law at Vermont Law School where he received both his juris doctor and Master of Environmental Law & Policy degrees with high honors. Mr. Wimpy is immediate past-chair of the Arkansas Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section. He currently serves as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, Agricultural Management Committee.
 

Mr. Wright practices in the areas of environmental, energy and water law. Prior to that, he served as assistant general counsel for the Petroleum Marketers Association of America in Washington, D.C., from 1985-1987 and on the minority staff of the United States House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee in the mid-1980s. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law since 1989. Mr. Wright serves as general counsel to the Arkansas Oil Marketers Association, the Arkansas Recyclers Association and the Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association. He received his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Arkansas and a Masters of Law from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He has authored articles on a variety of environmental, energy and water law topics.