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| Education: B.S.B.A. (Accounting), University of Arkansas; J.D., University of Arkansas. | |
| Law-Related Employment: City Attorney for Augusta, Bradford, Des Arc, Garner, Kensett, and Rosebud; Searcy City Attorney (1969-1978); Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Woodruff County. | |
| Law Practice or Teaching Areas: Private Law Practice/Lightle, Tedder, Hannah & Beebe Law Firm (Searcy); National Judicial College, Faculty Advisor. | |
| Prior Judicial Experience: City Judge for Kensett and Rosebud; White County Juvenile Court and the Juvenile Probate Office, Est. & Implemented; White County Juvenile Judge (1976-1978); Chancery/Probate Judge, 17th Judicial District (1979-1999); Associate Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, Position 5 (2001-2004). | |
| Associations: Arkansas Judicial Council; Arkansas Bar Association. | |
| Other: American Judges Association, past member; White County Bar Association, past President, Treasurer, and Secretary; Arkansas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Secretary (1972-1979); Searcy Chamber of Commerce, former member; Wilbur Mills Alcoholism Treatment Center, past Chairman of Board of Advisors; Harding University, former instructor; Kiwanis Club of Searcy, former member of Board of Directors/ past Secretary and Treasurer; Kiwanis Little League Basketball, co-founder and current Chairman; Little League Baseball, former Director; Little League Baseball and Basketball, former Coach; University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Parents' Club, former President; First Presbyterian Church of Searcy, Elder/ former Deacon, Elder, Trustee & Clerk of the Session. | |
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Date of Election or Appointment to Current Position: 1991 |
| Education: B.A., University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; J.D., University of Arkansas at Fayetteville | |
| Law-Related Employment: Served five terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives (1971-1980) | |
| Law Practice or Teaching Areas: Practiced Law in DeQueen, Arkansas (1966-1967); Practiced law in Lewisville and Stamps, Arkansas (1967-1981) | |
| Prior Judicial Experience: Judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals (1981-1990); appointed Chief Judge in January 1987 and served in that capacity until 1990. | |
| The biographical information above has been reprinted with the permission of the Arkansas Bar Association from Handling Appeals in Arkansas, Arkansas Bar Association, 1997. | |
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Date of Election or Appointment to Current Position: 1987 |
| Education: B.S., Business Administration, University of Arkansas (1960); L.L.B., University of Arkansas School of Law (1964); National Judicial College (1978); The American Academy of Judicial Education (1983); National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Faculty Training Conference (1985) | |
| Law-Related Employment: Private Law Practice, and Chairman, The Election Laws Institute, Inc. (1970-1978); Assistant and Deputy Attorney General, Arkansas Attorney General's Office (1967-1970); Staff Attorney, Pulaski County Legal Aid (1966-67); Legal Advisor and Office Manager, Winthrop Rockefeller (1965-1966); Executive Director, Election Research Council, Inc. (1965) | |
| Law Practice or Teaching Areas: Lecturer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1971, 1972, 1979, 1980); Lecturer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (1981, 1982, 1985, 1987) | |
| Prior Judicial Experience: Judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals (1981-1986); Chancellor, Sixth Judicial District, Third Division (1979-1980) | |
| The biographical information above has been reprinted with the permission of the Arkansas Bar Association from Handling Appeals in Arkansas, Arkansas Bar Association, 1997. | |
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Date of Election or Appointment to Current Position: 2004 |
| Education: B.B.A., Texas A&M University; J.D., University of Houston. | |
| Law-Related Employment: Prosecuting Attorney, 8th Judicial District (1977-1982). | |
| Law Practice or Teaching Areas: Private practice, law office of John L. Wilson, Hope, Arkansas (1973); Private practice, Wilson and Gunter (1974); Private practice, Wilson, Gunter and Walker (1975). | |
| Prior Judicial Experience: Chancellor, 8th Judicial District (1983-1991); Circuit/Chancery Judge, 8th Judicial District (1991-1999); Circuit Judge, 8th Judicial District North (1999-2004). | |
| Associations: American Bar Association; Arkansas Bar Association; Southwest Arkansas Bar Association; Hempstead County Bar Association; Arkansas Judicial Council, Past President. | |
| Other: Arkansas Supreme Court Civil Rules Committee; Arkansas Supreme Court Criminal Rules Committee; Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Child Support; Criminal Detention Facility Board, Chair; Arkansas Judicial College, Education Committee; Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee, Member; Calvary Baptist Church, Hope, Arkansas, Member, AWANA Commander; Boy Scouts of America, Assistant Scoutmaster; Hope Lions Club; Lions of Arkansas, District Governor; Lions World Services for the Blind, Past President; Habitat for Humanity, Member | |
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Date of Election or Appointment to Current Position: 2006 |
| Education: B.A., Florida State University, 1968; J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law, 1975. | |
| Law-Related Employment: Law Clerk to Associate Justice Frank Holt of Arkansas Supreme Court; Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, 6th and 15th Judicial Districts; Booneville City attorney; Circuit Judge, 15th Judicial Circuit. | |
| Law Practice or Teaching Areas: Private law practice for 18 years; Instructor at University of Arkansas School of Law. | |
| Prior Judicial Experience: Circuit Judge, 15th Judicial District (Conway, Logan, Scott & Yell Counties) for 12 years. | |
| Associations: Arkansas Bar Association; Arkansas Bar Foundation Fellow; Arkansas Judicial Council; Past Chairman Supreme Court Liaison Committee. | |
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Date of Election or Appointment to Current Position: 1997 |
| Education: B.A., Smith College (1971); J.D., University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (1977) | |
| Law-Related Employment: Paralegal, Arnold, White & Durkee, Houston, Texas
(1972-1975); Paralegal, Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, Little Rock, Arkansas (1975-1977); Attorney/Partner, Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, Little Rock, Arkansas (1977-1988) |
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| Prior Judicial
Experience: Circuit Judge, 6th Judicial District, 5th Division (1984); Chancery/Probate Judge, 6th Judicial District, 6th Division (1989-1996) |
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| The biographical information above has been reprinted with the permission of the Arkansas Bar Association from Handling Appeals in Arkansas, Arkansas Bar Association, 1997. | |
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Date of Election or Appointment to Current Position: 1990 |
| Education: B.A., University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee (1963); M.A., Columbia University (1965); J.D.,
University of Virginia (1968) |
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| Law-Related Employment: Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, 6th Judicial District (1971-1972); Legal Aide, Governor of Arkansas Dale Bumpers (1972-1974); Legislative Assistant, Senator Dale Bumpers (1975-1976); Administrative Assistant, Congressman Jim Guy Tucker (1976-1978) | |
| Law Practice or Teaching Areas: Robert L. Brown, P.A. (1985-1990); Harrison & Brown, P.A. (1979-1984); Adjunct Professor (National Government) U.A.L.R. (1984); Bar Review of Arkansas (1979-1981); Chowning, Mitchell, Hamilton & Burrow (1968-1971) | |
| Prior Judicial Experience: Special Circuit Judge - Pulaski County | |
| Associations: Pulaski County Bar Association; American Bar Association; Arkansas Bar Foundation Fellow; American Bar Foundation Fellow | |
| Publications: The Second Crisis of Little Rock: A Report on Desegregation within the Little Rock Public
Schools (Little Rock, AR: Winthrop
Rockefeller Foundation, 1988); From Whence Cometh Our Appellate Judges: Popular Election Versus the Missouri Plan, 20:2 U.A.L.R. Law Journal 313 (Winter 1998); Expanded Rights Through
State Law: The United States Supreme Court Shows State Courts the Way,
4:2 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 499 (Fall 2002). |
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| Some of the biographical information above has been reprinted with the permission of the Arkansas Bar Association from Handling Appeals in Arkansas, Arkansas Bar Association, 1997. | |