# T.J. Fowler General Counsel, Office of Auditor of State Dennis Milligan. Office: 1401 West Capitol, Suite 325, Little Rock, AR 72201. Phone: 501.831.2707. Email: [email protected]. Surfaced as a wiki entity by the Auditor R3 (FOIA Response 3-3-26) production. Fowler is the third state-level General Counsel position documented in the wiki, counterpart to Olan Reeves at the Treasurer's office (Interim General Counsel through Dec 2024 per [[treasury-foia-r1-7-7-25]]) and to Laura Gilson at APERS (General Counsel per [[apers-foia-r1-7-7-25]]). Fowler's role at the Auditor's office is formal legal authority over FOIA responses and other legal-counsel matters. The Auditor's-office FOIA-handling structure documented across the 6/19-6/23/2025 Re Freedom of Information Request thread captured at [[auditor-foia-r3-3-3-26]] places Fowler at the top of a five-tier operational structure: - T.J. Fowler — General Counsel, formal legal authority - Stacy Peterson + Kurt Underwood — operational handlers (Peterson 6/19/2025 3:58 PM: "TJ, is this something you want me and Kurt to handle?") - Wendy Spadoni — triage and forwarding (Dunlap FOIA forwarded to Fowler 53 minutes after receipt) - Jason Brady — Auditor's-office FOIA liaison - Melissa Corrigan — Chief of Staff coordination Fowler was on leave the week of June 16-20, 2025. During his absence, two substantive FOIA-related events reached the Auditor's office: the 6/19/2025 forward of Mark White's second ATRS Board canvass for Israel Bonds emails, and Joshua Dunlap's 6/22/2025 primary FOIA submission to [email protected] requesting five categories of records related to Israel Bonds, SFOF, and the April 14-15, 2025 Capitol tour. The operational response in Fowler's absence fell to Peterson and Underwood. Fowler returned 6/23/2025 and replied to the Peterson handoff inquiry at 8:38 AM: *"Stacy, Hopefully, Jason let you know that I was on leave last week and you already started running with this. If not, let's get together ASAP this morning."* Brady's 6/10/2025 12:54 PM `israel` email in Sent-Items to Fowler (with empty body and attachments `ISRAEL BONDS - 03.pdf` and `ISRAEL BONDS - 04.pdf`) documents the documentary chain of Auditor's-office FOIA-response preparation: Brady forwards the 10/23/2024 seed message PDFs to Fowler for FOIA review, the same R1-attachment naming convention documented at [[auditor-foia-r1-brady]]. The forward predates Dunlap's FOIA submission by 12 days; it is the Auditor's-office preparation for the ongoing post-vote FOIA pressure. Fowler is not documented in any pre-vote Auditor's-office correspondence captured in the R1 or R2 productions. The wiki holds his start date at the office as before June 10, 2025 (date of Brady's `israel` email to him) and his documented role as continuous through the period the 3-3-26 production covers (through January 2026). ## Evidence ### Signature block > *"T.J. Fowler / General Counsel, Auditor of State / 1401 West Capitol, Suite 325 / Little Rock, AR 72201 / 501.831.2707 / [email protected]"* > TJ Fowler, RE Freedom of Information Request_6, Mon 6/23/2025 8:38 AM ### Leave-week return acknowledgment > *"Stacy, Hopefully, Jason let you know that I was on leave last week and you already started running with this. If not, let's get together ASAP this morning."* > TJ Fowler to Stacy Peterson, RE Freedom of Information Request_6, Mon 6/23/2025 8:38 AM ### Brady's 6/10/2025 R1-attachment forward to Fowler > Brady to TJ Fowler, israel, Tue 6/10/2025 12:54 PM CDT. Empty body. Attachments: ISRAEL BONDS - 03.pdf, ISRAEL BONDS - 04.pdf. The PDFs are Brady's 10/23/2024 seed message and White's same-day reply (cross-confirms [[auditor-foia-r1-brady]]). ## Cross-References [[jason-brady]] - [[stacy-peterson]] - [[kurt-underwood]] - [[wendy-spadoni]] - [[melissa-corrigan]] - [[dennis-milligan]] - [[olan-reeves]] - [[laura-gilson]] - [[auditor-foia-r3-3-3-26]] - [[auditor-office-org-structure]] - [[auditor-foia-r1-brady]]