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U.S. District Court in Arkansas
U.S. District Judges for Arkansas, 1836-1966(may beincomplete!)
BenjaminJohnson 1836-49DanielRingo 1844-61OrenHarris 1966
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Arkansas,1864-2017(may be incomplete!)
HenryClay Caldwell 1864-90JacobTrieber 1900-27JohnE. Martineau 1928-37ThomasClark Trimble III 1937-57HarryJacob Lemley 1939-58J.Smith Henley 1958-59J.Smith Henley 1959-75GordonElmo Young 1959-69TerryLee Shell 1975-78RichardS. Arnold 1978-80WilliamRay Overton 1979-87GeorgeHoward, Jr. 1980-2007StephenM. Reasoner 1988-2002JamesMaxwell Moody 1995-2008BrianStacy Miller 2008-DenzilPrice Marshall, Jr. 2010-KristineGerhard Baker 2012-JamesMaxwell Moody, Jr. 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Arkansas,1864-2017(may be incomplete!)
HenryClay Caldwell 1864-71WilliamStory 1871-74IsaacC. Parker 1875-96H.Heartsill Ragon 1933-40HarryJacob Lemley 1939-58JohnE. Miller 1941-67J.Smith Henley 1959-75TerryLee Shell 1975-78RichardS. Arnold 1978-80GeorgeHoward, Jr. 1980-90H.Franklin Waters 1981-97MorrisS. Arnold 1985-92HarryF. Barnes 1993-RobertToombs Dawson 1998-2009TimothyLloyd Brooks 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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