Paul Jerry Bookout (born June 30, 1962) is an American Democratic politician from the state of Arkansas. He is a former member of the Arkansas Senate from Jonesboro in Craighead County.Bookout served as President of the Senate from 2011 to 2013. He served in the House from 1999 to 2005 and was elected to fill the term of his late father, Jerry Bookout, in the Senate in 2006. The elder Bookout had held the seat from 1973 to 1997, and again from 2003 until his death.