# Arkansas Auditor of State The Arkansas Auditor of State is a constitutional state officer responsible for state financial-records oversight. The Auditor sits ex-officio on multiple state pension system boards including ATRS and APERS, and serves on the State Board of Finance. [[dennis-milligan]] is the current Auditor of State, having previously served as State Treasurer through 2022. Senior staff include [[jason-brady]] (Chief Deputy Auditor), [[wendy-spadoni]] (Executive Assistant to the Auditor), [[stacy-peterson]] (Director of Communications), [[melissa-corrigan]] (Chief of Staff), and [[tj-fowler]] (General Counsel). The Auditor's Office functions as the **operational coordination hub for the DCI promotional channel into Arkansas state pension systems**, documented in detail at [[auditor-as-dci-channel]]. The channel pattern includes: (a) the long-standing [[dennis-milligan|Milligan]]-[[lawrence-berman|Berman]] personal relationship dating to Milligan's Treasurer tenure; (b) Brady's role as channel-coordinator, drafting 10/23/2024 outreach to ATRS and APERS, the SFOF policy-letter operation, and Milligan's 4/24/2025 SFOF speech; (c) the October 2024 Christian-Zionist solidarity operation preceding the pension-investment push (per [[october-2024-israel-solidarity-operation]] and [[october-2024-treasurer-israel-prayer-ceremony]]); (d) the SFOF-coordinated policy-letter track (per [[sfof-policy-letter-operation]]); (e) the April 2025 multi-official Capitol tour (per [[auditor-multi-official-capitol-tour]]) at which Berman met with eight Arkansas officials across the legislative, executive, and pension leadership. The Auditor's-office organizational structure is documented at [[auditor-office-org-structure]]. The post-vote reactive correspondence (Mark White's two board canvasses on the Lenow Arkansas Times FOIA filings, the December 2025 ATRS Reams capital call execution as the first post-vote Brady-Berman direct correspondence) is documented at [[auditor-foia-r3-3-3-26]]. The Auditor's-office channel is the operative-variable distinction between ATRS/APERS adoption and [[Arkansas State Highway Employees Retirement System|ASHERS]] decline. The same DCI representatives reaching all three pension systems with similar pitch material produced adoption at the two systems where the Auditor's office is ex-officio represented, and passive non-engagement at the one system where the Auditor's office is not represented (per [[ashers-declined-pitch-control-case]]). ## Cross-References [[dennis-milligan]] [[jason-brady]] [[wendy-spadoni]] [[stacy-peterson]] [[melissa-corrigan]] [[tj-fowler]] [[kristina-duke]] [[kurt-underwood]] senior staff entities [[lawrence-berman]] DCI National Managing Director and Auditor's-office relationship anchor [[auditor-as-dci-channel]] [[auditor-office-org-structure]] [[auditor-multi-official-capitol-tour]] [[october-2024-israel-solidarity-operation]] [[october-2024-treasurer-israel-prayer-ceremony]] [[sfof-policy-letter-operation]] concept pages [[auditor-foia-r1-brady]] [[auditor-foia-r1-milligan]] [[auditor-foia-r1-spadoni]] [[auditor-foia-r2-jbrady]] [[auditor-foia-r2-milligan]] [[auditor-foia-r2-stacy-peterson]] [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]] [[auditor-foia-r3-3-3-26]] source pages