Educators & Administrators

Eugene Hardeman Abington (1873–1965)
Eugene Hardeman (E. H.) Abington, a physician, practiced medicine and pharmacy in Arkansas and Oklahoma for mo...
Henry McMillan Alexander (1905–1969)
Henry McMillan Alexander brought the city manager plan to Arkansas and served as an adviser to many state agen...
Joel Edward Anderson (1942–)
Joel Anderson was a major figure at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) for over four d...
Larry Paul Arnn (1952–)
Larry Paul Arnn, who grew up in Pocahontas (Randoph County), became the twelfth president of Hillsdale College...
James Harris (J. H.) Atkinson (1888–1973)
James Harris (J. H.) Atkinson was an educator, author, and historian who, through his leadership in state and ...
Richard Bernard Atkinson (1946–2005)
Richard B. Atkinson was the tenth dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville (Washington...
Earl Robert Babbie (1938–)
Earl Robert Babbie of Hot Springs Village (Garland and Saline counties) is an acclaimed sociologist best known...
William J. Baerg (1885–1980)
William J. Baerg was a naturalist, entomologist, and teacher who served as head of the Department of Entomolog...
Virgil Lyle Baker (1896–1974)
Virgil Lyle Baker was an author, playwright, director, and educator who served as a faculty member and departm...
James David Bales (1915–1995)
aka: J. D. Bales
From 1944 to 1980, James David Bales was a professor of Bible and t...
James Albert Banks (1941–)
James Albert Banks is an educator who has been called the “father of multicultural education,” a disciplin...
Fred Wallace Bartell (1872–1958)
Frederick Wallace Bartell was a Siloam Springs (Benton County) merchant, church leader, and Circuit Chautauqua...
Dorothy Yarnell Barton (1900–1988)
Dorothy Yarnell Barton was a dedicated educator who taught at the secondary level and later as a professor at ...
Clarence Elmo Bell (1912–1997)
Clarence Elmo Bell was a prominent public school educator as well as a longtime, influential member of the Ark...
Henry Garland Bennett (1886–1951)
Henry Garland Bennett was an Arkansas-born educator who played a transformative role in the development of the...
George Stuart Benson (1898–1991)
George Stuart Benson was the second president of Harding College (now Harding University) in Searcy (White Cou...
Edwin Bentley (1824–1917)
Edwin Bentley was one of the eight founders of the Arkansas Industrial University Medical Department, now the ...
Daisilee Hutchins Berry (1929–1998)
In the 1960s and 1970s, Daisilee Hutchins Berry—a physician, researcher, and educator—pioneered the field ...
Edward Baxter Billingsley (1910–1997)
Rear Admiral Edward Baxter Billingsley was a decorated naval officer and veteran of World War II who went on t...
Diane Blair (1938–2000)
Diane Frances Divers Kincaid Blair was a nationally respected educator, writer, speaker, political scientist, ...
Estelle McMillan Blake (1861–1950)
Estelle McMillan Blake was a respected and beloved Arkansas college educator whose career teaching English and...
Virgil Tracy Blossom (1906–1965)
Virgil Tracy Blossom was a professional educator who served as superintendent of Little Rock (Pulaski County) ...
Constance Josephine (Connie) Bonslagel (1885–1950)
Constance Josephine (Connie) Bonslagel served as state home demonstration agent from 1917 until her death in ...
Joseph Albert Booker (1859–1926)
Joseph Albert Booker—noted editor, educator, and community leader—was for four decades a prominent leader ...
Peggy Sue Bosmyer (1948–2008)
When the Reverend Dr. Peggy Bosmyer was ordained in January 1977 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock...
Augustus Louis Breysacher (1831–1897)
Augustus Louis Breysacher was one of the eight founders of the Arkansas Industrial University Medical Departme...
Howard Walter Brill (1943–)
Howard Walter Brill, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County)...
Ida Josephine Brooks (1853–1939)
Ida Josephine Brooks was a teacher and early school administrator in Little Rock (Pulaski County). She was amo...
Charles Hillman Brough (1876–1935)
Charles Hillman Brough was an educator, a promoter, and the state’s twenty-fifth governor. Rated by some his...
Floyd B. Brown (1891–1961)
Floyd B. Brown founded the Fargo Agricultural School in Monroe County in 1919 to provide the equivalent of ele...
J. L. Brown (1853–1938)
aka: James Lafayette Brown
James Lafayette (J. L.) Brown, one of the most influential early le...
John Elward Brown (1879–1957)
A prominent evangelist, publisher, radio pioneer, and educator in the first half of the twentieth century, Joh...