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10-Q - FORM 10-Q - SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPf10q_080911.htm
EX-31 - EXHIBIT 31.2 - SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPexh_312.htm
EX-32 - EXHIBIT 32.1 - SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPexh_321.htm
EX-32 - EXHIBIT 32.2 - SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPexh_322.htm
EX-12 - EXHIBIT 12.1 - SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPexh_121.htm
EX-31 - EXHIBIT 31.1 - SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPexh_311.htm
Exhibit 15.1

Awareness of Independent Registered
Public Accounting Firm

 
We acknowledge the incorporation by reference in the August 26, 2009, Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-161558)  of Simmons First National Corporation of our report dated  August 9, 2011, included with the Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2011.  Pursuant to Rule 436(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, these reports should not be considered a part of the registration statement prepared or certified by us within the meaning of Sections 7 and 11 of the Act.
 

 
/s/BKD, LLP
 

 
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
August 9, 2011