607 Millennium - Seventeenth Edition LAW AND LAW ENFORCEMENT with numerous organizations in various high leadership capacities, including as president of the Osceola Kiwanis Club, the Eastern Arkansas Boy Scout Council and the First Christian Church of Osceola, for which he has also served as chairman of the board. Likewise, he has been secretary of the Osceola Port Authority, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Osceola and the American Legion Post 24 of Blytheville, and a scoutmaster for Troop 222 of the Boy Scouts of America. The Scouts notably recognized him as an Eagle Scout and bestowed him with an Award of Merit and membership in the Order of the Arrow. In accounting for his accomplishments, Mr. Burnett credits his success to his ability to engage others, as well as his propensity for hard work. Looking to the future, he aspires to enter full retirement and enjoy such relaxing avocations as travel, fishing and hunting. Mr. Burnett notably introduced a bill that would have abolished the death penalty in Arkansas before eventually departing from the State Senate in 2016. Since then, he went on to work as a city attorney for several small towns and was appointed as a deputy prosecutor in 2019 before assuming his current role in 2021. Outside of his primary endeavors, Mr. Burnett has passed on his knowledge of the field of law to students at Arkansas Northeastern College, for which he has been an adjunct professor. He is also a former chairman of the college foundation’s board of directors. Professionally, he has also presided over the Arkansas Prosecuting Attorneys Association and the Arkansas Judicial Council, and he was the chairman of the judicial advisory board to the Mississippi Department of Corrections and the Arkansas Supreme Court Commission on Criminal Practice. As a further testament to his civic advocacy, Mr. Burnett has maintained involvement
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