May 23, 1976

Jim and Susan Henley McDougal married just after her graduation from Ouachita Baptist University (OBU), with former lieutenant governor Bob Riley presiding. Her husband left his faculty position at OBU the same year, and the two worked together in real estate. Susan McDougal became famous in the 1990s for refusing to testify before Kenneth Starr and the Office of Independent Counsel grand jury held in Little Rock (Pulaski County) during the Whitewater scandal investigation. She was imprisoned for almost two years, before ultimately being found not guilty and released. In 2001, on his last day in the White House, Bill Clinton granted McDougal a presidential pardon. In 2003, McDougal published the book The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk: Why I Refused to Testify against the Clintons & What I Learned in Jail.