Richard B. Adkisson was a prominent figure in the Arkansas legal community in the latter part of the twentieth...

Edwin Alderson Jr. became a prominent lawyer, jurist, and businessman in Arkansas in the late twentieth centur...

Ernest Guy Amsler, who was born and educated in Mississippi, moved to southern Arkansas with a law degree afte...

Morris Sheppard “Buzz” Arnold is a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The U...

Richard Sheppard Arnold served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (which includes Arkansas) f...

William Howard “Dub” Arnold was a prosecutor, municipal judge, and chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme C...

Basil Thorpe Baker served on the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1934 until his death in 1941, and while his servi...

Burrill Bunn Battle was a prominent Arkansas attorney and jurist in the latter decades of the nineteenth centu...

Born and educated in western New York state, John Emory Bennett moved to Arkansas after the Civil War and had ...

President Andrew Jackson appointed Charles S. Bibb, a Kentucky lawyer only twenty years old, to the highest co...

Hugh M. Bland was born in northwestern Arkansas, but his father, a poor and restless farmer, took the family b...

Judge Joseph William Bocage was a prominent pioneer settler of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County). He served as att...

Neill Bohlinger was an Arkansas attorney, politician, and judge who served multiple terms in the Arkansas Gene...

Thomas Meade Bowen was a Civil War officer for the Union, president of the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Conven...

Howard Walter Brill, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County)...

Henry M. Britt was the first Republican to be elected as a trial judge in Arkansas since Reconstruction. He se...

Lyle Brown was a lawyer and historian who capped a career in politics by serving for twenty-one years as a cir...

An attorney with a successful career in politics working for Dale Bumpers and Jim Guy Tucker, Robert L. Brown ...

Henry G. Bunn was a prominent lawyer and judge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Highly re...

Arkansas native Franklin Burgess earned All-American honors in basketball at Washington State’s Gonzaga Univ...

Lawyer and jurist Turner Butler was a farmer and schoolteacher before educating himself in law. Butler practic...

Conley F Byrd Sr. was a sharecroppers’ son from northeastern Arkansas who, after World War II, became a lawy...

Ben E. Carter, following in his father’s footsteps, got an Ivy League education and developed a stellar law ...

Harry Eugene Claiborne, a native of McRae (White County), was a lawyer, politician, and later a federal judge ...

Alexander M. Clayton, a Virginia-born lawyer, had a thirty-five-year career as a jurist, diplomat, and leader ...

John J. Clendenin was an influential lawyer and judge in Arkansas before and after the Civil War. He also serv...

The chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1884 to 1893, Sterling Robertson Cockrill was only thirty...

Freeman W. Compton was an eighteenth-century lawyer from North Carolina who moved to Arkansas and, with his wi...

Donald Louis Corbin had a career as a state legislator and appellate judge spanning forty-four years. As a sta...

Edward Cross, who was born in Tennessee and reared in Kentucky, practiced law briefly in eastern Tennessee as ...

Paul E. Danielson served ten years on the Arkansas Supreme Court, and his wife, Betsy Williams Danielson, also...

Ronald Norwood Davies was the U.S. district judge who presided over the litigation involving the 1957 integrat...