Cushing MLP Total Return Fund declared a quarterly distribution of $0.225 per common share for the quarter ending February 29, 2012. The distributions will be payable on March 9, 2012 to shareholders of record on February 29, 2012. The ex-date for the distributions is February 27, 2012. The company announced that Barry Y. Greenberg, currently Chief Compliance Officer, was also named Secretary and Judd B. Cryer joined the portfolio management team responsible for the day-to-day management of the fund's portfolio and was named Vice President. Mr. Cryer joined the Fund's investment adviser, Cushing(R) MLP Asset Management, LP in 2005. He is a Senior Vice President and Senior Research Analyst of Cushing MLP and has six years of experience in investment management and research analysis, and seven years of direct engineering and project management experience in various sectors of the energy industry.