About Clarke

Clarke was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 2003, he earned an A.B. in Government from Harvard University, where he served as the student president of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, a non-partisan organization founded by the Kennedy family in 1966 to inspire young people into careers of politics and public service. He received his law degree in 2006 from the University of Arkansas, where he graduated magna cum laude and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Arkansas Law Review. While in law school, Mr. Tucker received numerous awards, including Greatest Contribution to Legal Literature, Best Trial Advocate, Top Moot Court Oralist, and Most Likely to Succeed.

After receiving his license to practice law in 2006, Clarke served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Leon Holmes of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas from 2006 to 2008. Since 2008, Clarke has practiced at Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull, Bailey & Oliver, and has had his own practice since 2019.

In addition to his practice, Clarke serves as an Arkansas State Senator and has since 2021. Clarke formerly served as a State Representative in the Arkansas General Assembly from 2015 through 2018. Clarke serves on the committee for Judiciary and has served as the Chairperson of the Courts/Civil Law Permanent Subcommittee of Judiciary. Clarke also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Imagination Library, and he is the Board Chair and founder of the Pulaski County Imagination Library, a program working in conjunction with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to deliver age-appropriate books to all children between birth and age 5.

Clarke also served as the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tiger Foundation, an organization designed to benefit and support Little Rock Central High School, and remains on the Board. A proud alumnus and former student body president, Clarke is past coach of the school’s mock trial team and serves on and is past president of its Alumni Association Board of Directors. Clarke is also a former adjunct professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law where he taught courses on Constitutional History and Law & Politics. Clarke is active at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, where he serves on the Vestry and as Chancellor and has previously served as Senior Warden. ​Clarke is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Arkansas; the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals; and all Arkansas State Courts.

Clarke and his wife Toni spend most of their spare time with their two children on baseball and competitive dance.