• District Court, W.D. Arkansas

  Judge

  1977 – 1990 · 13 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

• District Court, E.D. Arkansas

  Judge

  1977 – 2007 · 30 yrsAppointed by Jimmy Carter

• Supreme Court of Arkansas

  Judge

  1975 – 1977 · 2 yrs

Career

• Judge

  1978 – 1978

• Associate justice

  Arkansas Supreme Court

  1975 – 1977 · 2 yrs

• Judge

  1974 – 1974

• prac

  1974 – 1974

• Senior law clerk, Hon. Paul Williams

  U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas

  1970 – 1975 · 5 yrs

• Assistant attorney general

  State of Arkansas

  1967 – present · 59 yrs

• Law clerk, Hon. Gordon E. Young

  U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas

  1967 – 1969 · 2 yrs

• Judge

  Circuit Court of Arkansas, Sixth Judicial Circuit

  1966 – present · 60 yrs

• Law clerk

  Hon. Frank Holt, Arkansas Supreme Court

  1963 – 1965 · 2 yrs

• Private practice

  1945 – 1963 · 18 yrs

• Attorney, Arkansas State Department of Revenue

  1941 – 1942 · 1 yr

• Private practice

  1940 – present · 86 yrs

• Private practice

  1939 – present · 87 yrs