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From 1819 to 1836, the highest court in the Arkansas Territory was the Superior Court, which consisted of presidentially-appointed judges who served four-year terms. The court was established with three judges, with a fourth added in 1828. [2] Below is a list of the judges that constituted that court: [3] [4]
The number of districts in a county vary from nine to fifteen, and district boundaries are drawn by the county election commission. The Arkansas County Quorum Court has eight members. Presiding over quorum court meetings is the county judge, who serves as the chief operating officer of the county. The county judge is elected at-large and does ...
The reform, approved as Amendment 55 to the Arkansas Constitution of 1874, made sweeping changes to the structure of county government. County judges were transformed into county executives who worked with the quorum court to conduct county business, [7] stripping the almost unfettered power they had accumulated since 1874. [6]
An Arkansas judge on Tuesday threatened to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general against the Corrections Board that he would normally represent, the latest in a widening legal ...
Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ...
Pages in category "County judges in Arkansas" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... William F. Slemons; W. Lon Warneke; James Lee Witt
Pine Bluff Division created from Desha (from the Eastern Division) and Grant, Dallas, Jefferson, Cleveland, Lincoln, Drew, Arkansas, and Chicot (from the Western Division). [12] Arkansas districts - 1961: November 26, 2019: 83(a) Stat. 28: The "Divisional Realignment for the Eastern District of Arkansas Act of 2019" comprises three divisions.
6 Eastern District of Arkansas. ... Senior Judge William Keith Watkins: Montgomery: 1951 ... Senior Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. Jacksonville: 1945