Memorial: Commissioner Thomas B. Schueck

MEMORIAL Commissioner Thomas B. Schueck 1941 – 2020

TOM SCHUECK, WHO WAS SERVING A TEN-YEAR TERM ON THE ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 3, 2020.

He was appointed to the Commission by Governor Mike Beebe and served from 2011 to 2020. The last year and a half of his term, he served as Chairman.

Schueck was a student in the engineering program at Washington University in St. Louis and completed his studies there in 1965 with a degree in civil engineering.

He had 41 years of experience in forming and managing companies involved in heavy construction. Among the companies he founded are Schueck Steel, Custom Metals, Prospect Steel, L-Con Constructors, L-Con Marine Fabricators and Heritage Golf, a golf course construction company.

His experience as a public servant also included service to the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission, the Little Rock Airport Commission and the Arkansas Parks & Tourism Commission.

He also served on the UAMS Foundation Board, the board of The Nature Conservancy and the board of the Arkansas Industrial Development Foundation. Schueck was the recipient of the Rotary Club of Little Rock Sidney M. Brooks Fellow Award, the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow Award and the St. Mary’s High School Legacy Award.

He was a member of the American Institute of Steel Contractors and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

“Tom will be missed in so many ways — his directness, his humor, his laugh, his leadership, his generosity, just his presence in general,” stated Commission Chairman Robert S. Moore, Jr. “He could have this gruff outward demeanor, but he was as soft as they come on the inside. Tom has left his own unique positive mark on this State, this Commission, and each of us individually. We’ll get a new Commission member, but there was only one Tom Schueck.” 