November 12, 2014

William Harvey Bowen died at the age of ninety-one. Bowen was a former dean of the state’s largest law school, which was later named the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. Early in his legal career, Bowen was the president of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce. He was also a senior partner in Arkansas’s largest law firm, president of the state’s largest bank, and CEO of a health insurance company. In 2006, he published his memoir, The Boy from Altheimer, in which he recounted the hardships of life in the Arkansas Delta.