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Wendy Davis (b. June 30, 1966) is an American actress. She is currently appearing in the hit Lifetime Television series, Army Wives, as Colonel Joan Burton.

Wendy grew up in Joppatowne, Maryland a small town outside of Baltimore. She attended Joppatowne High School and graduated with a degree in Theater from Howard University. Davis is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Wendy Davis has one child, a daughter. The father is Jacobi Wynne, whom Ms. Davis recently divorced. She and her daughter now live in Charleston, South Carolina, where her hit series Army Wives is filmed.

Davis was regular on the 1991 series The New WKRP in Cincinnati as receptionist Ronnie Lee, and appeared in the 1996-97 police drama High Incident as Lynette White. She appeared in an episode of Grey's Anatomy, in Season One, Episode 9, as Holly Adams, the pregnant wife of Dr. Preston Burke's best college friend. She has also appeared in Cold Case, Coach, Martin, Smart Guy (as Blake's mother), Angel, and other shows.

Tom Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is from the city of Dardanelle, Arkansas. He spent five years serving in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Cotton is the Republican (GOP) nominee running for the United States Congress in Arkansas's 4th congressional district for the 2012 election cycle.

Cotton grew up outside Dardanelle, Arkansas, on his family's cattle farm. After graduating from Dardanelle High School, he went on to attend Harvard College, where he was as a columnist for the Harvard Crimson, played on the junior-varsity basketball team, and was a member of the Harvard Republican Club. He earned a law degree from Harvard Law School.

After completing law school, he served as a federal judicial clerk at the United States Court of Appeal for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith. Moving on to private practice, his work focused on labor, employment, and constitutional law cases at all levels of state and federal court.

In 2004, Cotton enlisted in the U.S. Army as a infantryman. After completing his initial training at Fort Benning, he was deployed in 2006 to Baghdad as a leader of a 41-man air-assault infantry platoon with the 101st Airborne Division. In Iraq, Cotton led daily combat patrols in Al Dora, Abu Dashir, and the surrounding rural sectors outside Baghdad.