Office of the Mayor

Mayor Vivian L. Flowers

Mayor Vivian L. Flowers is a public servant with over 30 years experience, and is a proud Pine Bluff, Arkansas native. She served five terms (2015-2024) as Arkansas State Representative for District 65, which encompasses parts of Jefferson and Arkansas Counties, including part of Pine Bluff. Although she was eligible to serve for another six years in the state legislature, Flowers changed course and announced her candidacy for Mayor of Pine Bluff in November 2023. The following year, she won the April primary runoff with 55% of the vote and the November general election with 88% of the vote.

Officially sworn into office as Mayor of the City of Pine Bluff on January 1, 2025, Vivian Flowers pledged to unify the city with a commitment to transparency and accountability. She reiterated her priorities as youth investment, economic development and public safety.

Mayor Flowers previously served as Chief Operating Officer for the Center for Diversity Affairs at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS),as a member and chair on the Arkansas Minority Health Commission, and as an appointee to the Pine Bluff Historic District Commission. Her decades of experience as a state legislator, executive leader, and appointee to state and local commissions have well prepared her to lead the City of Pine Bluff with integrity and distinction.

Throughout her service as state representative, Flowers was instrumental in helping to secure funding and resources for Pine Bluff. From grant funds for the aquatic center to the oversight and ownership of the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame, she successfully advocated and delivered for Pine Bluff. In 2022, the USDA awarded Pine Bluff over $32 million for flood prevention projects, which Flowers had an active hand in securing. As a legislator and national board officer, she worked on and researched solutions toward addressing the massive and historic underfunding of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

The recipient of local, state and national legislative awards for her leadership and hard-work on numerous issues and legislative acts, Flowers sponsored and co-sponsored dozens of bills that passed into law, benefiting Pine Bluff and the State of Arkansas for generations to come. During her first two terms in the House, she addressed family reunification (Act 993), heritage tourism (Acts 451 & 776), and minority business expansion and fair elections (Act 1014). She subsequently sponsored and passed legislation that ended child marriage (Act 1028), expanded government transparency by requiring audio recording and storage of public meetings (Act 849), and continued her commitment to growing the state's heritage tourism footprint in South Arkansas with the "Arkansas Delta Music Trails Act" (Act 1066).

State and national leadership was significant part of Flowers' distinguished service record having served as Secretary, (2021-2024), Region X Chair (2018-2020) as well as chair of the NBCSL COVID-19 Working Group (2020) for the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL). During her first term in the House, Governor Hutchinson appointed Flowers to the Governor's Council on Medicaid Reform, and in 2017 she was elected chair of the Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus during her sophomore term (2017-18). During her legislative tenure, Flowers served on  the House Agriculture, Judiciary, Aging Children & Youth, Energy, Technology & Telecommunications, Revenue & Tax, Audit, Joint Budget and Legislative Council Committees. She served most passionately and distinctively on the House Education and House Insurance & Commerce Committees in her last term as a staunch advocate for both public education and affordable drug prices.

Mayor Flowers is a 2006 Inaugural Graduate of the University of Arkansas Clinton School Of Public Service, and earned bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Professional Technical Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Upon receiving her Master's Degree, she accepted a position as Director of Recruitment for Diversity at the University for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Center for Diversity Affairs and was later promoted to serve as Chief Operating Officer (COO), leading the center's DEI recruitment, program and leadership efforts at UAMS for nearly a decade.

Prior to her graduate studies and professional service at UAMS, she established a solid record of service as a volunteer and professional in the non-profit, state and national electoral politics, and in state government service with the Bureau of Legislative Service as well as the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture. Having served on numerous state and non-profit boards and commissions - including the Women's Foundation of Arkansas and Arkansas Minority Commission - Mayor Flowers currently serves as a board member of the Women's Council on African American Affairs and the Donna Terrell Warrior Lodge Board.

A fifth generation Arkansan, Mayor Flowers currently resides in Pine Bluff's Historic District. She is the daughter of Mary and Dr. John A. Flowers, Sr., a lifetime member of the NAACP Pine Bluff Branch, and a dedicated member of St. John A.M.E. Church.

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     Pine Bluff Civic Complex                  

     200 E 8th Ave. Suite 201
     Pine Bluff, AR 71601
     (870) 730-2000 ext. 7
     Fax: (870) 730-2174