Regan Gruber Moffitt, J.D.
Senior Associate, Public Policy

As senior associate for public policy, Regan Gruber Moffitt is responsible for helping the Foundation proactively identify and support policy and advocacy activities focused on achieving the overall Moving the Needle goal of reducing poverty in the state of Arkansas.

Regan joined the Foundation in 2009 after practicing law with Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard P.L.L.C., where she focused on insurance regulation. In addition to her legal experience, Regan has worked extensively in policy and education. She has experience with the Texas legislature, working on community college issues with the Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education and on K–12 education issues as a Legislative Aide for Representative Rick Hardcastle.

In Arkansas, Regan served as a legal extern for the Education Committee of the Arkansas House of Representatives. As an educator, she taught ESL mathematics with Teach for America for two years in Houston and authored a pre-Algebra computer-based textbook. She has been recognized for her academic achievements and community service with a number of awards, including the Robert Sarver Award for Outstanding Leadership, Citizenship, Scholarship, and Character by a Graduate Student; two President’s Awards for the Pulaski County Bar Association; an Arkansas Young Lawyers Section Achievement Award; and an Arkansas Bar Association Golden Gavel Award. In 2010, she was selected to two prestigious leadership programs, the Hull Fellows program of the Southeastern Council of Foundations and the LeadAR program.

Regan currently serves on the Government Affairs Committee and the Annual Meeting Program Committee for the Southeastern Council of Foundations, is a founding member of the Little Rock Chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN), and is a member of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP). She also serves as the Secretary/Treasurer for the Pulaski County Bar Association, the President of the Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers, the Vice Chair of the Law Related Education Committee of the Arkansas Bar Association, and a board member of the Wildcat Foundation.

In addition, Regan is a member of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Committee for the Future and Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Central Arkansas Big League. She earned her BA from Wellesley College, her MA in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas at Austin, and her JD with High Honors from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law.