Elsijane Roy

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Years in office: 1989 - 2007

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Years in office: 1977 - 1989

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United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

Years in office: 1989 - 1990

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Years in office: 1977 - 1989

Education

Law

University of Arkansas School of Law, 1939

Personal

Birthplace

Lonoke, AR

Elsijane Trimble Roy (1916-2007) was afederal judge on theEastern andWestern Districts of Arkansas.

Roy was nominated to both courts simultaneously by PresidentJimmy Carter on October 21, 1977, to a seat vacated byOren Harris; she was confirmed by the Senate on November 1, 1977, and received commissionthe next day. She assumedsenior status onJanuary 1, 1989. She continued serving both courts untilDecember 1, 1990, when her seat on the Western District was reassigned. She continued serving the Eastern District until her death onJanuary 23, 2007. Roy was succeeded in this position bySusan Carter.

Early life and education

• University of Arkansas School of Law, J.D., 1939

Professional career

• Private practice, Lonoke, Arkansas, 1939
• Private practice, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940
• Attorney, Arkansas State Department of Revenue, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1941-1942
• Private practice, Blytheville, Arkansas, 1945-1963
• Law clerk, Hon. Frank Holt, Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1963-1965
• Circuit judge, Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas, 1966
• Assistant state attorney general, State of Arkansas, 1967
• Law clerk, Hon. Gordon E. Young, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, 1967-1969
• Sr. law clerk, Hon. Paul Williams, U.S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas, 1970-1975
• Associate justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, 1975-1977

Judicial nominations and appointments

Eastern District of Arkansas

Roy was nominated to both courts simultaneously by PresidentJimmy Carter on October 21, 1977, to a seat vacated byOren Harris;^[1] she was confirmed by the Senate on November 1, 1977, and received commissionthe next day. She assumedsenior status onJanuary 1, 1989. She continued serving both courts untilDecember 1, 1990, when her seat on the Western District was reassigned. She continued serving the Eastern District until her death onJanuary 23, 2007. Roy was succeeded in this position bySusan Carter.

External links

• Biography(dead link) from theFederal Judicial Center.

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Active judges	Chief Judge: Brian Miller (Arkansas)Chief Judge: Kristine Gerhard Baker  •  D.P. Marshall Jr.  •  James Moody Jr. (Arkansas federal court judge)  •  Lee Rudofsky
Senior judges	Susan Webber Wright  •
Magistrate judges	J. Thomas Ray  •  Jerome Kearney  •  Joe J. Volpe  •  Patricia S. Harris  •  Edie Ervin  •
Former Article III judges	J. Leon Holmes  •  Garnett Eisele  •  William Wilson (Arkansas)  •  James M. Moody Sr. (Arkansas federal judge)  •  Henry Woods  •  William Overton  •  Richard Arnold (Arkansas)  •  Terry Shell  •  Daniel Ringo  •  Henry Clay Caldwell  •  John Williams (Arkansas)  •  Jacob Trieber  •  John Ellis Martineau  •  Thomas Trimble  •  Harry Lemley  •  Oren Harris  •  Jesse Henley  •  George Howard  •  Elsijane Roy  •  Stephen Reasoner  •  Gordon Young  •
Former Chief judges	Garnett Eisele  •  D.P. Marshall Jr.  •  Thomas Trimble  •  Jesse Henley  •  Susan Webber Wright  •  Stephen Reasoner  •

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
Active judges	Chief Judge: Susan Hickey  •  Timothy Brooks (Arkansas)
Senior judges	Jimm Hendren  •  Robert Dawson (Arkansas)  •  Paul K. Holmes  •
Magistrate judges	Barry Bryant  •  Erin Wiedemann  •  Mark E. Ford  •  Christy Comstock  •
Former Article III judges	Harry Barnes  •  Richard Arnold (Arkansas)  •  Terry Shell  •  Morris Arnold  •  Daniel Ringo  •  Hugh Waters  •  Henry Clay Caldwell  •  Isaac Charles Parker  •  William Story  •  John Henry Rogers  •  Frank Youmans  •  Heartsill Ragon  •  Harry Lemley  •  John Elvis Miller  •  Oren Harris  •  Jesse Henley  •  Susan Webber Wright  •  George Howard  •  Elsijane Roy  •  Paul Williams (Arkansas)  •  Paul K. Holmes  •
Former Chief judges	Jimm Hendren  •  Hugh Waters  •  Harry Lemley  •  John Elvis Miller  •  Oren Harris  •  Paul Williams (Arkansas)  •  Paul K. Holmes  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byJimmy Carter
1977	Ballantine •Bownes •Boyle •Bua •Carr •Clark •Cowan •Daly •Filippine •Higginbotham •Hoeveler •Hug •Johnstone •Kane •Keith •Leval •Logan •MacLaughlin •McKay •Melton •Merritt •Murphy •Nickerson •Oberdorfer •Roszkowski •Roy •Rubin •Sifton •Tang •Vance •Veron
1978	Arnold •Baker •Boyle •Burns •Campos •Claiborne •Collins •Cook •Devine •Diamond •Duplantier •Edenfield •Friedman •Gonzalez •Greene •Jenkins •Lowe •Mazzone •McMillian •O'Brien •Pfaelzer •Phillips •Pollak •Sand •Shapiro •Simmons •Smith •Sweet •Tanner •Wiseman •Ziegler
1979	Ackerman •Alarcon •Anderson •Arceneaux •Arnold •Aspen •Beatty •Beer •Belew •Bertelsman •Bilby •N. Black •S. Black •Bloch •Bowen •Brett •Brooks •Brown •Buchmeyer •Bunton •Burciaga •Cabranes •Carr •Carrigan •Castagna •Cire •Clark •Cohn •Conaboy •Cordova •Crabb •Cudahy •Davis •DeAnda •Debevoise •Edwards •Eginton •Ellison •Enslen •O. Evans •T. Evans •Farris •Ferguson •Fletcher •Frye •Garcia •Garza •B. Gibson •H. Gibson •Gierbolini-Ortiz •Giles •Gilliam •Green •Hall •Hastings •Hatchett •Hatfield •Hatter •Hawkins •Henderson •Higby •Hillman •Houck •Howard •Hudspeth •Hungate •F. Johnson •S. Johnson •N. Jones •S. Jones •Karlton •Kazen •Kearse •Keeton •Kehoe •Kennedy •Kidd •King •Kravitch •Loughlin •Martin •McCurn •McDonald •McNaught •McNichols •Mikva •Mitchell •Moran •Murnaghan •Murphy •D. Nelson •D.W. Nelson •Newblatt •Newman •Overton •Paine •Panner •J. Parker •R. Parker •Penn •Perez-Gimenez •Perry •Politz •Poole •Porter •Pregerson •Price •Rambo •Ramirez •Reavley •Redden •E. Reed •S. Reed •Reinhardt •Renner •Robinson •Rothstein •Sachs •Saffels •Sanders •Sarokin •Schroeder •Schwartz •Seay •Senter •Seymour •Shannon •Shaw •Shoob •Skopil •Sloviter •Sofaer •Spellman •Sprouse •Staker •Tate •Taylor •Thompson •Tidwell •Unthank •Vietor •Vining •Wald •Ward •Weinshienk •West •Wicker •Williams •Winder •Woods •Wright • Zobel
1980	Aguilar •Aldrich •Anderson •Boochever •Breyer •Britt •Cahill •Canby •Carroll •Cerezo •Clemon •S. Ervin •R. Erwin •Getzendanner •Gilmore •Ginsburg •Haltom •Hardy •Henderson •Hobbs •Holschuh •Horton •Howard •Johnson •Keep •Kelly •Kenyon •Kocoras •Marquez •Marshall •Michael •Nixon •Norris •Patel •Polozola •Propst •Quackenbush •Ramsey •Rice •Shadur •Spiegel •Tashima •Thompson •Vela •White •Williams
1981	Heen