Experience

  • Top Score on the Arkansas Bar Exam
  • Hendrix College, B.A. Magna Cum Laude
  • Bowen School of Law, J.D. Highest Honors
  • Appointed to the bench by Governor Mike Huckabee in 2006
  • 4th Year as Circuit Judge
  • Assistant Dean, UALR Bowen School of Law
  • Heard Over 3500 as Circuit Judge
  • Taught courses to the following:
    • Juvenile Judges
    • Judicial Council
    • District Judges Association
    • Lawyers through the Arkansas Bar Association and various County Bar Associations
    • University of Arkansas Medical School Students
    • New Judges Orientation Boot Camp
    • Law Students at both the UALR Bowen School of Law and University of Arkansas School of Law
    • School Resource Officers at Arkansas Safe Schools Conference
    • Juvenile Officers
    • Arkansas Journalists as part of the Arkansas Supreme Court’s Media Day
    • Medical Doctors
  • Licensed and Practiced before:
    • Arkansas Supreme Court
    • Arkansas Court of Appeals
    • Federal Bankruptcy Court
    • U.S. District Court
    • 8th Circuit Court of Appeals