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Message from the Dean
Dear Friends of the Law School,
This is my first opportunity as dean to present to you an issue of the
Arkansas Law Record, and I am very pleased to do so.
There is a special air of excitement at the School of Law these days.
A major portion of our new construction was completed just before the
semester began, and classes are now meeting in all of our new classrooms!
The new facility is beautiful, stunning in fact, and it has already become
a place to seek out on campus. Our remaining construction should be
completed some time during the summer 2007, and we will have a major
dedication ceremony during the subsequent fall semester. We will provide
details later, and I hope many of you will be able to attend. The dedication
will include not only the building, but also a magnificent new courtyard
that we hope will serve as a fitting memorial to our beloved friend,
colleague and late Dean Richard B. Atkinson. We are so grateful to our
alumni and friends who have provided the financial support to make these
improvements possible.
I am still in my first semester as the new dean of the School of Law, and
I want to thank the many of you who have offered words of encouragement.
I have already begun my travels around the state to become better
acquainted with the many friends of the School of Law, and I look forward
to seeing you sometime soon.
In this issue you will find news about the law school and about the work
and accomplishments of some of our alumni. We want to offer you every
opportunity to “stay connected” with us, and we hope that the Arkansas
Law Record helps serve that purpose. We have also launched a new Web
site at law.uark.edu. Please check it out and give us your feedback. We
think there is a lot to be proud of, and we want to share it with you. We
know that we can continue to be successful in our educational mission only
if we also continue to receive the support of those who once walked our
halls as students.
So, read the articles and enjoy the photos. Visit us whenever you have
the chance. This is still your law school.
Cordially,
Dean Cynthia E. Nance
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Students now graduate with an escalating average student loan debt of nearly $50,000.
Nearly 75% of our students receive financial aid.
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support the students and faculty who are at the heart of our law school. Your
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Arkansas Law Record
Copyright Arkansas Law
Record ©
Dean: Cynthia E. Nance
Director of Alumni
Relations & Special Events:
Malcolm McNair
Editor:
Amy Ramsden
Assistant Editor:
Yvette Scorse
Creative Director:
Eric Pipkin
Contributors:
Rhonda Adams, Lonnie
Beard, Nancy Cozart, Mary
Herrington, Malcolm
McNair, Cyndi Nance,
Michele Amy Ramsden,
Susan Schneider, Yvette
Scorse and Lisa Vassar
Photography: Russell
Cothren, Eric Gorder,
Michele Payne, Eric Pipkin,
Amy Ramsden, Yvette
Scorse and Bob Wheeler
Special thanks to Russell
Cothren and Eric Pipkin for
their extra time and effort
in helping the School of
Law with photography of
the new building and special
events; to Rhonda Adams,
Mary Herrington and Lisa
Vassar for assembling Closed
Cases; to Susan Schneider,
the Henry Law Firm, Kao
Lee and all of those who
contributed to helping the
Hmong farmers.
Arkansas Law Record is
published by the University
of Arkansas School of Law,
Robert A. Leflar Law Center,
Fayetteville, Arkansas
72701.
FEATURES
2 Local Law Firm
Making A Difference
8 Alumnus in Iraq
Prepares for Homecoming
DEPARTMENTS
10 student sidebars
11 law briefs
14 the evidence
24 transcript
26 class action
31 LLM class action
32 faculty news
39 closed cases:
2007 Graduating Class
contents

Stephen Charles Parker Jr., J.D.
Attorney
Kaleb Kyle Hennigh, J.D., LL.M.
Master of Laws in Agricultural Law
Stephen D. Schrantz, J.D.
Registered Patent Attorney
Mark Murphey Henry, J.D., LL.M.
Registered Patent Attorney
Masters of Laws in Agricultural Law
www.henrylawfirm.net
Nathan Price Chaney, J.D.
Registered Patent Attorney
Michael Sean Brister, J.D., LL.M.
Master of Laws in Agricultural Law
Adam L. Hopkins, J.D.
Attorney
Highway 37 north to Cassville, Mo., runs through
the Ozark Plateau. With its cascading hills, deep valleys
and roadside fruit and vegetable stands, the landscape
is strikingly similar to Laos, located thousands of miles
away.
Kaleb Hennigh, LL.M. ’05, Sean Brister, J.D. ’02,
LL.M. ’03 and Mark Henry, J.D.’97, LL.M.,’04, have
been making this scenic drive regularly, as well as many
others to rural towns throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma
and Missouri. In January 2006, their firm, the Henry
Law Firm of Fayetteville, took on nine Chapter 12
bankruptcy cases for Hmong farmers in the Ozark
region.
“After hearing how banks allotted these families of
ten less than nine dollars per day for food yet planned
[to gain] hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest
payments, I knew we had to help,” said Henry.
The seven attorneys at the Henry Law Firm
– Nathan Chaney, Stephen Parker, J.D.’05, Stephen D.
by Amy Ramsden
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When local farmers had to file chapter
12 bankruptcies, the Henry Law Firm of
Fayetteville stepped in to help.
The Henry Law Firm
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Specialization: Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Law and Agricultural Law
Schrantz, J.D.’06, Adam L. Hopkins, J.D.’06, Hennigh,
Brister and Henry – handle not only the complex
federal and state litigation and multi-state bankruptcy
filings but also matters including bankruptcy
paperwork, client meetings, document examination
and day-to-day poultry farming questions from Hmong
farmers like Shoua Xiong.
At the end of the long drive from Fayetteville
to Cassville sits Xiong’s poultry farm, just off of
Highway 37, where today Xiong tends his turkeys.
Xiong, a young Hmong-American man, is hoping
that the Henry Law Firm will be able to persuade a
judge to allow him to reorganize under Chapter 12
bankruptcy. Enacted in 1986 specifically to meet the
needs of financially distressed family farmers, Chapter
12 bankruptcy gives farmers like Xiong a chance to
restructure their debts to save their farms.
While Xiong awaits reorganization, he is feeling
stressed, trying to provide for 11 family members living

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on his farm. He has less than seven hundred dollars in the bank, and they
still have six weeks to wait until their turkeys are sold.
But he’s not only tired and stressed out, he’s angry too – angry at the
banks and appraisers who allegedly failed to disclose the previous owner’s
income and expense records to Xiong. His lawsuit tells of an overzealous
loan officer who allegedly inflated the farm’s income projections and
understated the expenses in order to make Xiong’s poultry farm profitable
on paper. In reality, however, Xiong said he believes wholeheartedly
that the bank and appraisers inflated the potential income of his farm
by approximately $80,000 annually, and that this disparity drove him to
bankruptcy.
According to Henry, the firm is currently gathering evidence to bring
five other fraud cases to court in bankruptcy hearings. These claims could
slow down the farmers’ Chapter 12 bankruptcy reorganization process by as
much as a year, but Henry believes the claims are essential to disclosing the
true value of these poultry farms.
“I believe the bank and appraiser inflated the price of my farm to put
money in their pockets,” Xiong said. “With an FSA [Farm Service Agency]
guaranteed loan, what are they going to lose?” He pauses, while his three
small children tug at his shirt.
“They will lose nothing,” he said.
Long term, Brister said the firm has asked the
federal government to internally evaluate the efficacy
of its loan process. In the immediate future, however,
he predicts these families are going to have a hard time
getting by on the income they’re bringing in.
Xiong said he hopes he recovers his losses, but
he doesn’t know how long his family can get by.
The chicks are arriving on Thursday, and it will take
another six months for the flock to be ready to sell.
Congress designed the FSA program to encourage
banks to loan to beginning farmers. If any of these
farms fail, the federal government pays up to 90
percent of any loss, said Susan Schneider, director
of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Law at the
University of Arkansas School of Law. That means
the bank, appraisers, real estate agents – all of the
parties involved in the real estate transaction except
for the buyer – walk away with money in their pockets
regardless of the outcome of the farm.
“These cases could have tragic consequences,” said
Schneider. “If the allegations are correct, then the very
loan program that was created by Congress to help
family farmers may have been used to exploit them.”
Because the Hmong are new to this region,
Hennigh said they may have been more easily deceived
than local buyers. In addition, extreme language
barriers made the Hmong-Americans more vulnerable.
Many relied on the banks’ assurances that the
paperwork was in proper order before closing on the
property.
Hmong farmers have been migrating to the Ozark
region from California, Wisconsin and Minnesota at a
pretty steady pace since the early part of this decade.
Many are leaving low-paying factory jobs in the west
and midwest to invest their life savings in poultry farms
in the rural south where the cost of living is much
lower. Some of the Hmong farmers say the Ozarks
remind them of Laos, which they fled after the United
States pulled out of the Vietnam War.
The Hmong Times, a Minnesota-based Hmong-
American newspaper, is filled with Ozark area real
estate advertisements placed by area real estate firms.
One ad says, “Have you ever dreamed of owning a
poultry farm, business or home in the sunshine state
Arkansas or Missouri?”
Third-year University of Arkansas law student Kao
“I believe the bank and appraiser inflated the price of my farm to put money in their pockets” – Shoua Xiong

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“The collection of families we’re able to help really gives
us gratification. We feel like we’re doing the right thing.”
– Kaleb Hennigh
Lee said it’s common for Hmong families to stick together. Lee, who will
graduate with her law degree next May, is part of the migration of Hmong-
American people to the area.
Like Xiong’s father, Lee’s father worked as a radio operator trained by
the CIA to rescue downed American planes between North and South
Vietnam. An ethnic minority in communist Laos, the Hmong were forced
to flee the country to avoid persecution when the United States pulled out
of Vietnam. Lee and her family crossed the Mekong River into Thailand,
where they lived in refugee camps until an American family sponsored
their relocation to Portland, Ore.
Like Xiong, Lee attended an American university and married
another Hmong-American. When her husband’s family moved to eastern
Oklahoma to become poultry farmers, Lee came with them to study at the
University of Arkansas School of Law.
“There are strong needs in the Hmong culture that haven’t been
addressed,” she said. “It takes someone who understands the culture.”
In the past year, Lee has helped the Southeast Asian American Farmers
Association start a nonprofit and form a Web site (http://saafa-farmers.
org) to reach more farmers like Xiong, sharing better strategies for farming
and offering support for ways of acclimating to the area
and understanding the differences between these two
cultures.
Lee said many of these Hmong farmers who bought
their farms at fair prices have learned to thrive in
poultry farming. They have a lot of hope for their
future here, she said.
Back at the Henry Law Firm, the attorneys are also
hopeful today – and busy. In addition to the Hmong
farming cases, the firm has expanded their business in
intellectual property, hiring two new graduates of the
School of Law, one of whom, Schrantz, specializes in
patent law.
The firm has talked to as many as 100 additional
Hmong families and have a total of 12 bankruptcy cases
now. They have won a few early battles, including a
court ruling, which allowed Xiong to remain eligible
for Chapter 12.
Henry is dedicated to the cause, regardless of how
challenging these cases may get. He said he believes
these hard-working people helped our American forces
in Vietnam, and our society owes them no less than fair
treatment.
“The collection of families
we’re able to help really gives us
gratification,” Hennigh added.
“We feel like we’re doing the
right thing.” n

Kent Herring, ’97
Major, U.S. Army Judge
Advocate General’s Corps
506 th Infantry Regiment,
101 st Airborne Division
Alumnus in Iraq
Prepares for Homecoming
by Yvette Scorse
At the end of his Iraqi tour, alumnus Kent Herring was used to the
“simple” life: an occasional movie between 13-hour days and mortar fire.
He considered coming home to Arkansas for his 15-day vacation but
opted for Spain. Before leaving Baghdad, he was looking forward to his
Thanksgiving return to the United States, a reunion with his family and,
of course, some good Mexican food. After almost a year in Iraq, Herring
talked about his deployment as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) and his
career as a military lawyer.
Herring sometimes hears explosions from his office. Sometimes, he goes
to work, dodging mortar fire. But he’s one of the “lucky” ones.
“Other than the danger involved with being here and hearing bombs go
off every so often, life is manageable,” Herring said.
He spends his days helping thousands of soldiers with legal concerns and
worrying about Iraqis who live in poverty, without clean water, sanitation
and electricity.
“When I go on convoys or patrols and see the bad conditions that most
Iraqis live in, I appreciate what I have on the base,” he said.
Herring lives on a relatively nice FOB (forward operating base)
complete with pool, small movie theater and a dining facility that he calls
“a poor man’s Luby’s.”
“Day-to-day life, while limited in its options, is
pretty simple,” Herring said. “On the bright side, the
commute to work is only about 50 yards.”
For the last year, he hasn’t worried about everyday
American frustrations like finding a parking space,
buying groceries and paying bills. Instead, Herring
has worked from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. everyday in the
eastside of Baghdad.
“The days are long, but we manage our workload
and get a lot of things done for the commanders and
soldiers,” Herring said.
His team advises six battalion commanders, 30
company commanders and a colonel, who is in charge
of 3,500 soldiers. They handle legal issues including
Uniform Code of Military Justice, fiscal law, Geneva
Conventions pertaining to detainees, the treatment
of civilians, targeting (rules of engagement) and
investigations of day-to-day operations.
They also handle claims from Iraqis pursuant to the
Foreign Claims Act for negligent and accidental acts
of U.S. forces. The claims have included an incident
when an American tank ran over 13 cars and another
when forces checked in an Iraqi policeman’s pistol,
“which we promptly lost,” Herring said.
Herring earned his Juris Doctor from the University
of Arkansas School of Law in 1997.
“After my four-year ROTC obligation, I asked
myself what an unemployed history major could do
for a living,” he said. “I was convinced that further
education as a lawyer might not be a bad idea.”
After graduating, Herring became a JAG, returning to the Army. Since
then, he has been stationed everywhere from FOB Loyalty in east Baghdad
to Fort Campbell, Ky., and Germany.
He now has 13 years of active-duty Army service and will probably stay
in another seven years, until he reaches the 20-year retirement mark. But
Herring said after working in the public sector for the majority of his career,
he would like to move to civil litigation or work as an Assistant U.S.
Attorney.
He’s also applying for Army funding to earn his master’s in international
law. “There is only one position available,” he said, “so I’ll need some luck.”
Just a few weeks before leaving Baghdad, Herring is reminiscent about
his summer vacation escape out of the Middle East desert to Andalusia,
Spain. He got 15 days off and a free flight from the Army. “Little Rock was
tempting,” he said, “but somehow Spain won out.”
After a year in war, Herring is excited to come home to the United
States. During Thanksgiving, he will reunite with his family when his plane
lands at Fort Campbell. Herring will again enjoy luxuries that he’s missed
like going out to breakfast, seeing an afternoon movie and spending time
with his parents in Bryant, Ark.
“Other than that,” he said, “I’ll probably go to the Whole Hog Café in
Little Rock and find a good Mexican restaurant.” n
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student sidebars
Visiting Student: Irina Feofanova
Russian law student Irina Feofanova says the biggest difference
in American and Russian laws aren’t the rules themselves but the
way in which we use them. Russians don’t have common law, she
says, so being able to cite case after case is not only irrelevant, it
isn’t part of the law school curriculum.
Irina was a visiting scholar at the University of Arkansas
School of Law for the 2005-06 academic year. As a visiting
scholar, Irina took classes as a full-time law student, but her classes
didn’t count towards her law degree in Russia.
“It was for my own experience,” she said, explaining that
in Russia she will earn two degrees, one as a lawyer and one as
an interpreter of English. At the University of Nizhni Novgorod,
where she is currently enrolled, a law degree is earned in a five-year
program, somewhat similar to earning a professional architecture
degree.
Novgorod is one of the oldest Russian cities, Irina says,
explaining that it means “new city,” a sort of ancient New York of
Russia. It was founded in the 800 and 900s and was once one of
the chief centers of foreign trade, she said. It is the most ancient Slavic city
recorded in Russia, though some of its historic monuments were destroyed by
the Nazis during World War II.
Before coming to the University of Arkansas, Irina had never been
outside of Russia. She says San Francisco was her favorite city in the United
States, and she hopes that one day she will be able to return, perhaps to earn
her master’s degree in law. n
Wal-Mart Legal Diversity Scholarship
School of Law Welcomes New Professors
The School of Law welcomed three new assistant tenure-track
professors this fall.
Assistant Professor Scott Dodson received his J.D. from Duke
University Law School, where he was a member of the Duke Law Journal
and graduated cum laude. After clerking for Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis
in the Eastern District of New York, Professor Dodson practiced complex
litigation in private practice and with the U.S. Department of Commerce.
He currently teaches Civil Procedure and Federal Jurisdiction.
Assistant Professor Sharon Foster joined the School of Law faculty
in 2000. Prior to her arrival, she was an adjunct professor at Loyola Law
School in Los Angeles since 1998. She taught in The University of
Arkansas School of Law Legal Research and Writing Program and has also
offered courses in international legal research and international finance.
She is teaching First-year Contracts, Anti-Trust and Debtor/Creditor.
Assistant Professor Ned Snow teaches Property, Law and the Internet
and Decedents’ Estates. Prior to joining the faculty, he practiced law at
Baker Botts, L.L.P., in its appellate and complex litigation sections. He
represented clients in matters regarding intellectual property, internet
trespass, international real estate and insurance fraud. As an undergraduate,
Professor Snow studied philosophy and economics at Brigham Young
University, graduating summa cum laude. He received his J.D. from Harvard
Law School where he was a member of the Journal on
Legislation. Following law school, he clerked for Judge
Edith Brown Clement on the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit. n
The Richard B. Atkinson
Memorial Courtyard
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Wal-Mart and the University of Arkansas School of
Law presented the second-annual Wal-Mart Legal Diversity
Scholarship to Carlyle White of Jackson, Miss., on April 10.
White will earn a total of $12,000 in Wal-Mart scholarships
over three years of law school.
“Wal-Mart is proud of its commitment to diversity and the
many diversity initiatives the company sponsors,” said Thomas
Mars, senior vice president and general counsel for Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. “The Wal-Mart legal department is pleased to support
the law school.”
Alberto Mora, vice-president and general counsel for the
International Division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., presented the
award. Mora is responsible for Wal-Mart’s legal affairs in Puerto Rico, China,
Japan, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Germany ,
South Korea and five Central American countries. n
The year-long fund-raising effort for the Richard B.
Atkinson Memorial Courtyard has been a tremendous
success, according to Dean Cyndi Nance.
“The courtyard was Dick Atkinson’s dream for
the finishing touch to the Robert A. Leflar Law
Center expansion,” said Nancy Cozart, director of
development for the School of Law. “He wanted the renovated courtyard
to be a spectacular place to be enjoyed by law students and the larger
community.”
In September 2005, after Tyson Foods, Inc., announced that it would
match gifts up to $250,000 for the courtyard, Woody Bassett,’77, and
Archie Schaffer spearheaded the formal effort to make this dream a
reality. As of September 2006, over $602,000 has been raised in gifts and
commitments for the courtyard project, according to Cozart. n
On May 5, 2006, Jesús Moroles (second
from left) presented his design for the
Richard B. Atkinson Memorial Courtyard.
Dean Atkinson’s dream was for Moroles to
commission the courtyard. “Mr. Moroles
used Dean Atkinson’s words from their
conversations to guide his design, and it
was enthusiatically embraced,” said Cozart.
Also pictured are: Cozart (right of Moroles),
architect Charley Penix (left of Moroles),
Michael Hollomon and Susan Schneider.
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School of Law Names National AgLaw Center Directors
Staff attorneys and assistant research professors Doug O’Brien
and Harrison Pittman were named interim directors for the National
Agricultural Law Center. The two will lead the center’s mission to conduct
legal research into the most critical issues facing agriculture and food today.
“We are proud to have Doug O’Brien and Harrison Pittman step up to
become directors of such a prestigious national center during an exciting
time for the School of Law,” said Dean Cyndi Nance, who appointed the
two as interim directors for the academic year 2006-07.
For nearly 20 years, the National Agricultural Law Center has
researched legal aspects of agritourism, biofuels, land and water
conservation and farm bills.
O’Brien and Pittman have been around agriculture for their entire lives.
O’Brien grew up on an Iowa farm, while Pittman grew up in an agricultural
community in eastern Arkansas. Both earned their masters’ degrees in
agricultural law at the University of Arkansas School of Law.
O’Brien and Pittman will replace former director Michael Roberts, who
has gone to work for the Venable Law Firm in Washington, D.C., where he
will counsel the firm on food law and policy. Roberts
will continue teaching at the School of Law as an
adjunct professor in food law.
“Working for the National Agricultural Law
Center was my favorite job, and I will miss it greatly,”
said Roberts.
He said the center is proud of its accomplishments,
which include launching a nationally acclaimed
Web site, nationalaglawcenter.org/ maintaining an
excellent staff, including O’Brien and Pittman and
assisting with the first student-run journal of its kind,
The Journal of Food Law & Policy.
O’Brien and Pittman plan to carry on the center’s mission to conduct
legal research and provide objective, authoritative and scholarly articles to
scholars, attorneys, policymakers and others in the agricultural community
throughout the United States.
School of Law Ranked ‘Most Diverse’
The University of Arkansas School of Law is included among the “most
diverse law schools in the country” as ranked by U.S. News and World
Report’s 2007 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. According to
the report, African American students make up 16 percent of the School
of Law’s student body – that’s the fifth highest percentage of African
Americans at any law school in the nation.
“We are most proud of the fact that our largest minority community in
the law school is African Americans,” says professor of law Carol Goforth.
“They are historically underrepresented in the legal profession.”
U.S. News and World Report started this category for diversity in law
schools in 2006, and in both consecutive years, the University of Arkansas
School of Law has been ranked among the most diverse law schools in the
country.
While the percentage of minority students in the entering class has
increased from 18.9 percent in 2001 to 25.9 percent in 2005, the average
LSAT scores and grade point averages have increased dramatically, says
Goforth.
The School of Law is indebted to the efforts of not only the law school’s
associate dean of students, Jim Miller, who earned the Henry J. Ramsey
Jr. Award for the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association,
but to students, faculty, alumni and community members who donate their
time and commitment to prospective students.
“The law school makes room for everyone,” Goforth says.
Professor Watkins Retires after 23 Years
Professor John Watkins retired in August after more than 30 years in
teaching, the last 23 as a member of the School of Law faculty. At the time
of his retirement, he held the William H. Enfield Endowed Professorship.
“John’s contributions to the law school, the bar and to legal scholarship
are tremendous,” Dean Cyndi Nance said. “We will miss him greatly but
wish him well in his new life.”
The author of three books and four dozen journal articles, Professor
Watkins specialized in Arkansas civil procedure and the state’s Freedom of
Information Act.
“I have always believed that some faculty members at state schools
should devote their efforts to state law,” he said. “Not everyone should go
that route, of course, but it was the path I chose.”
For 19 years, Professor Watkins was a reporter – i.e., principal draftsman
– for the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Civil Practice, which
recommends changes in procedural rules to the Court. He also chaired the
Arkansas Bar Association’s task force on implementation of Constitutional
Amendment 80, which restructured the state’s court system. In 2002, the
Association recognized him with an award for “distinguished service to the
legal profession.”
Professor Watkins plans to continue writing and is now at work on
an article about a 1953 civil rights suit brought by a black baseball player
denied the opportunity to play in an all-white professional league with
teams in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. “Writing has been an
important part of my adult life,” he explained, “and it’s not something I can
immediately put aside.”
A native Texan, Professor Watkins graduated with honors from the
University of Texas School of Law, where he was note and comment editor
of the . After clerking for the late Judge Homer Thornberry of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, he practiced law with the prominent
firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. He taught at Baylor Law
School before moving to Arkansas in 1983.
He and his wife Joan will continue to reside in Fayetteville. “At one
time we thought about living elsewhere, but there are few places to live
better than Fayetteville,” he said. “It’s home now.”
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Chancellor John A. White, Dean
Cyndi Nance and Provost Bob Smith
joined Norma Lea Beasley, ’53, in a
ribbon cutting for the Norma Lea
Beasley Entrance Hall October 19.
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The new addition to the Leflar Law
Center was opened for orientation
August 15. Judge Wendell Griffen,
’79, kicked off orientation. Chief
Justice Jim Hannah,’ 68, also spoke
to students.
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2006 graduation took place at
Barnhill Arena at 1:30 p.m. May 20.
Pictured are (top clockwise) graduate
Brook Brewer and her family; Calysta
Johnson and her family; and (above)
Stephanie DeClerk (left) and
Christina Scherrey (right).
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Pictured top left (clockwise) are
A. Glenn Vasser,’72, Judy Vasser,
graduate Vicki Vasser-Murray and
her husband, Steve Murray; Ali
Brady and her family; Autumn
Tolbert and her family; Katherine
Brill, Professor Howard Brill, Mrs.
Gupta and graduate Suneel Gupta;
and bottom center graduate Hope
Goins with friends.
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The Arkansas Bar Association Law
School Committee toured the building
construction in spring.
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The annual Arkansas Bar Association
meeting in Hot Springs, Ark., brought
together a number of University of
Arkansas School of Law graduates
and faculty.
Washington, D.C., alumni gathered in
1 November with Dean Cyndi Nance.
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A reception to honor newly
appointed Dean Cyndi Nance
brought together over 150 attendees
at the Norma Lea Beasley Entrance
Hall August 25 from 4:30 to 6:30
p.m.
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The Silas Hunt Legacy Awards
honored 10 African Americans for
their contributions to the University
of Arkansas, including George
Haley, ’67, and Rodney Slater, ’80,
April 28. George Haley, former
ambassador to Gambia, spoke to
students in the Six Pioneers Room
about his time at the law school.

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A spring reception for the Washington
and Benton County alumni took place
at David and Mary Beth Matthews’
house May 18.
Photo Courtesy of The Northwest Arkansas Times
Dean Cyndi Nance welcomes new
University of Arkansas School of
Law graduates who were sworn in to
the Arkansas Bar Association.
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Woody Bassett, ’77 spoke at a
memorial for those who passed away
in the Arkansas Bar Association at
Judge Mary Gunn’s courtroom in
May.

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by Yvette Scorse
Steven S. Zega, ’93
Davis and Zega, P.C.
Lincoln, Ark.
Justice of the Peace
Washington County Quorum Court
Major, 142 nd Fires Brigade
Army National Guard
When did you decide to be a lawyer?
Steve Zega was born in New Jersey,
but now he’s an Arkansan, living
a satisfying small-town life. He left
for Iraq in 2004 as a judge advocate
general (JAG) in the Army National
Guard and spent more than nine
months there. Now, Zega enjoys days
as a partner in his small firm, Davis
and Zega, P.C., and cherishes time
with his family.
My math grades made me realize that my aspirations of being an
Air Force pilot were going out the window. Plus, I wanted to be a
politician, and most politicians at the time were lawyers.
Was your deployment to Iraq a surprise? Will you
go again?
Since Sept. 11, 2001, they expected I would get the call sooner or later.
I hadn’t been deployed before, and I don’t know what is in the future.
What did you miss most while in Iraq?
My family primarily. I have an 11-year-old daughter. She was eight
when I left.
Explain your mission in Iraq:
My job was to be trial counsel and a military prosecutor with the
39 th Infantry Brigade of the Army National Guard. As a prosecutor, I
advised commanders on issues of military justice from the government’s
side, including searches and seizures, nonjudicial punishment, all kinds
of things like that, and I conducted court martial.
How was your day-to-day life
different?
Everything was different. I don’t get shot at in my
regular job (in Lincoln). I don’t go to work in a
helmet and body armor. I don’t carry a weapon into
court. In Iraq, I wore a pistol in court, as did the
judge, as did everyone in the courtroom except for
the accused. It was kind of a mindblower to me, but
that’s how we did our business. I live in a house in
Fayetteville; I was in one-third of a trailer in Iraq.
It made me realize how much better things are in
America.
What is the difference between being
a military lawyer and practicing in a
small town?
It was a completely different world. One of the
cool things about being a country lawyer is when
you practice in a different town or state,
you see the difference in legal cultures.
I was looking at the legal culture of the
Army. Professionally, it helped me grow.
It’s made me a better client counselor,
advocate and adversarial lawyer. As a
partner in a small firm, my clients tell
me what to do to some extent, and
judges tell me what to do to some extent,
but I have a lot of independence. The
military is everything you think it is in
terms of discipline. I had a lot of people
to answer to directly for what I did or
didn’t do. One thing that was different
was counseling clients. Usually when a
military officer asks a military lawyer a
question or poses a problem, they follow
your advice. That’s not always true in the
civilian world.
Are you glad to be back at your
Arkansas firm?
I probably could get better financial
rewards somewhere else, but there’s a
whole lot of freedom that goes along with
a small-town practice. I’m happy to be
here. I love it, and that’s why I do it.
How was life when you returned?
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It was like I had only been away for a weekend.
Any experience like that is bound to change you,
but I came home, drank a few beers, cooked a few
steaks, got back into my life and went back to work.
I love my practice, and I love my family.
Do you have any advice for students
considering military service?
A judge advocate career is one way to get
experience you won’t get in the civilian world.
There’s no break-in period for an Army lawyer.
You get cases and clients immediately. But in the
current circumstances, be prepared to be away
from America on deployed tours. Go in with
your eyes open about that. It’s a challenge, but
people with the right skills and mindset can find it
professionally and personally gratifying.

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Judge William Enfield, ’48,
received the 2006 Arkansas Citizen
of the Year Award presented by the
Arkansas Scottish Rite.
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Former Ambassador to Gambia
George W. Haley, ’52, of Silver
Spring, Md., was honored with a
Silas Hunt Legacy Award.
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Norma Lea Beasley, ’53, was
awarded Honorary Membership in
the Texas Land Title Association,
recognizing her years in the title
profession, as a champion for
women’s equality in business and
as a pioneer of the real estate
profession in Texas. Beasley also
received the 2006 Maura Award,
which was established in 1978 by
the Women’s Center of Dallas to
honor those who have significantly
improved the lives of women and
girls in the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metroplex.
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Judge George Howard Jr., ’54,
has been honored by the William
H. Bowen School of Law in Little
Rock, Ark., with the establishment
of the Judge George Howard Jr.
Distinguished Professorship of Law.
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William A. Martin, ’55, was
re-elected to serve as the Secretary-
Treasurer of the Arkansas Bar
Association.
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Jim Blair, ’57, a founding member
of the Walton Arts Center Council,
has been selected as the 2006
recipient of the individual Arkansas
Governor’s Arts Patron Award.
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Circuit Judge John Norman
Harkey, ’59, was named the
“Outstanding Trial Judge” by the
Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association.
The award is given to an outstanding
jurist who is dedicated to the
preservation of individual rights and
free and fair access to the courts.
William
H. “Buddy”
Sutton,
’59, was
recognized at
the Annual
Alumni
Awards
Banquet
with the
Community
Service
Award. The
awards are given annually by the
Arkansas Alumni Association.
Sutton is Of-Counsel at Friday,
Eldredge & Clark, LLP, in Little
Rock, Ark., and he has been named
to the Arkansas Sheriffs’ Youth
Ranches Foundation Board of
Directors.
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Beryl Anthony, ’63, received a
Sigma Chi Fulbright Award on April
1, 2006.
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Damon Young, ’65, was the
President of the East Texas Chapter
of the American Board of Trial
Advocates in 2005-06. He was
also certified as a Criminal Trial
Advocate by the National Board of
Trial Advocacy.
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Bill Carter, ’67, has lived an
extraordinary life and has detailed
his adventures in a new book, Get
Carter: Backstage in History from
JFK’s Assassination to the Rolling
Stones.
Richard H. “Dick” Smith, ’67,
recently retired as Sr. Vice-President
and General Counsel of Cooper
Communities, has joined Pryor,
Robertson & Barry as partner and
will practice at the firm’s Northwest
Arkansas office.
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Chief Justice James Hanna, ’68,
was recently appointed to the Board
of Directors of the Conference of
Chief Justices.
Judge David T. Hubbard, ’68,
has completed 31 years of service as
a U.S. Administrative Law Judge,
Office of Hearings and Appeals,
Social Security Administration.
Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker,
’68, and businessman Steve Clary
have bought majority interest in the
Arkansas Twisters, an arena football
team that plays at Alltel Arena in
North Little Rock, Ark.
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Ann Rainwater Henry, ’71, was
elected to serve a three-year term on
the board of trustees for The Nature
Conservancy in Arkansas.
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Judge David Guthrie, ’72, was
awarded the Golden Gavel Award
from the Arkansas Bar Association
for his work as the chair of the
Professionalism Task Force.
Judge David Clinger, ’72,
of Bentonville, Ark., has been
appointed to the Arkansas
Sentencing Commission. by
Gov. Mike Huckabee. Judge
Clinger is a Benton County
circuit judge.
Louis “Bucky Jones, ’72, of
Fayetteville has been appointed
to the Past Presidents Committee,
Legal Services Committee (Civil)
and Law School Committee of the
Arkansas Bar Association.
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Barry Deacon, ’75, managing
principal of the firm of Barrett &
Deacon in Jonesboro, Ark., is serving
as President of the Arkansas Bar
Foundation.
Bob Estes, ’75, of Fayetteville,
Ark., has been appointed to the
Task Force on Attorney/Client
Privilege of the Arkansas Bar
Association.
Asa Hutchinson, ’75, was the
guest speaker for the Federalist
Society and Environmental Law
Society in spring 2006.
Sara Jobe,’06, Asa Hutchinson,’75, and Cheryl
Nichols, ’06
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James R. Jackson, ’76, was
honored with a retirement reception
for his years of service as a reference
librarian by the University of
Arkansas School of Law and the
Robert A. and Vivian Young Law
Library.
David R.
Matthews,
’76, of Rogers,
Ark., joined
the Arkansas
Community
Foundation state
board.
Judge Bobby E. Shepherd, ’76,
was confirmed to the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 8th Circuit.
He was also awarded the General
Writing award from the Arkansas
Bar Association for “Settlement
Conferences in the United States
District Court of the Western
District of Arkansas: An Attorney’s
Guide,” published in The Arkansas
Lawyer, spring 2005.
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G. David Gearhart, ’77, UA
Vice-Chancellor, recently published
his second book, Philanthropy, Fund
Raising, and the Capital Campaign: A
Practical Guide.
John Alan Lewis, ’77, has joined
the Rogers, Ark., office of Mitchell,
Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,
PLLC, as a partner in the firm’s
business practice group.
Woodson
W. Bassett, III,
’77, won the
Outstanding
Volunteer
Fundraiser Award
on National
Philanthropy Day
2006 from the Northwest Arkansas
chapter of the Association of
Fundraising Professionals. Winners
of this award contribute their time,
efforts, abilities and leadership skills
to fundraising projects. Bassett is also
a member of the American Board of
Trial Advocates and American Inns
of Court.
Richard L. Ramsay, ’77, of
Eichenbaum, Liles & Heister, P.A.,
in Little Rock, Ark., became the
2006-07 President-Elect of the
Arkansas Bar Association. Beginning
in June 2007, he will serve as
the President of the Southern
Conference of Bar Presidents.
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Beth Gladden Coulson, ’78,
received a Salute to Greatness
Community Service Award from
the Arkansas Martin Luther King
Jr. Commission for helping raise
millions of dollars for various
organizations over the years. The
award was given in January 2006.
Thomas C. Courtway, ’78, an
administrator at the University
of Central Arkansas and a former
interim director of the State
Department of Education has joined
the Hendrix College in Conway,
Ark., as Vice-President for Planning
and Operations.

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Don Elliott, Jr., ’78, and J.
Timothy Smith, ’91, opened the
Elliot & Smith firm Aug. 30, 2006
in Fayetteville, Ark. The firm will
focus on personal injury and medical
negligence cases.
Marti Woodruff, ’78, an attorney
with Woodruff of Fayetteville, Ark.,
was elected Secretary/Treasurer
of the Washington County Bar
Association for 2006.
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Colonel Richard C. Harding, ’79,
serves as Staff Judge Advocate for
Air Force Space Command, located
at Peterson AFB, Colorado.
Janet L. Pulliam, ’79, joined the
firm Williams & Anderson, PLC, in
Little Rock, Ark.
Jim L. Julian, ’79, was honored
with a Golden Gavel Award for his
work as chair of the Annual Meeting
Committee of the Arkansas Bar
Association.
Janet L. Pulliam, ’79, who was
in private practice for 24 years
before serving as a law clerk for U.S.
District Judge William R. Wilson Jr.,
has become a member of Williams &
Anderson in Little Rock, Ark.
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John D. Alford, ’80, a partner
in Wally Properties, LLC, of
Ft. Smith, Ark., and partner
Charles Palmer have developed or
redeveloped more than 1 million
square feet of space in former Wal-
Mart stores, or in what’s called
“shadow” building near new Wal-
Mart Supercenters. Wally Properties
has completed about 50 projects
across 12 states.
Debbie Dudley Branson, ’80, was
honored by the University of Texas
at Dallas Alumni Association with
an Alumni Achievement Award.
Branson is an attorney with the Law
Office of Frank L. Branson of Dallas.
The
Honorable
Rodney
Slater, ’80, of
Washington,
D.C., was
honored with
a Silas Hunt
Legacy Award.
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Craig A. Glass, ’81, and his wife
gave birth to Kellen Craig Class on
Dec. 31, 2005.
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Jeff Watson, ’82, a Springdale
alderman, was involved in
negotiations in the city to build
a stadium and sign the AA-level
baseball team the Wranglers.
Lillian Dee Davenport, ’82,
became vice president and trust
officer at Delta Trust & Bank in
Little Rock, Ark.
Gary F. Wence, ’82, joined
the Phoenix law firm of LaVoy &
Chernoff, P.C., where he began
practicing commercial litigation
Sept. 1, 2006.
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Mark R. Johnson, ’83, was
awarded the “Outstanding Volunteer
Attorney of the Year Award” for
2005 by Legal Aid of Arkansas.
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John Paul Byrd, ’85, Little
Rock, Ark., managing counsel for
Birmingham, Ala.-based Hare,
Wynn, Newell and Newton, LLP,
represented Arkansas rice farmers
in Lonoke, Ark., in a suit against
Riceland Foods Inc.
Brent Standridge, ’85, has
been appointed to the Arkansas
Sentencing Commission by Gov.
Mike Huckabee. Standridge is
an attorney with Ables, Howe &
Standridge, PLLC.
Michael J. Callan, ’85, was
recently promoted to the position
of Senior Vice-President/General
Counsel of Arkansas Oklahoma Gas
Corporation in Ft. Smith, Ark.
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West Doss, ’86, attorney with
Jones, Jones and Doss of Fayetteville,
Ark., was elected President of the
Washington County Bar Association
for 2006.
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J. Leon Johnson, ’88, was
appointed as the Arkansas Bar
Association’s Parliamentarian. He
is a professor at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock William H.
Bowen School of Law and works in a
private practice in Little Rock, Ark.
Dina C. Wood, ’88, was honored
by the Springdale, Ark., Rotary
Club and named a 2005 Paul Harris
Fellow.
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Emerson Poynter, ’89, is a partner
in Emerson Poynter, LLP, of Little
Rock, Ark. Emerson Poynter LLP
focuses its practice on shareholder
litigation involving primary
securities fraud class action litigation
and shareholder derivative cases.
The firms also represent consumers
in class action litigation involving
defective products, false advertising
and invasions of privacy.
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Kathleen R. Guzman, ’91, is the
Arch and Jo Anne Gilbert Professor
and Associate Dean for Academics
at the University of Oklahoma
College of Law.
Stephen Miller, ’91, was selected
as “Outstanding Volunteer Attorney
of the Year for Washington County”
by Legal Aid of Arkansas.
Bill Reynolds, ’91, and Alice
Rothwell Reynolds gave birth to
William Grant Reynolds on April 2,
2004.
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Ted A. Holzwarth and Lori
Reinhart Holzwarth, ’94, gave birth
to Allison Elizabeth Holzwarth on
Sept. 10, 2005.
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Albert J. Thoma, ’95, has become
a counsel with the Rose Law Firm of
Little Rock, Ark.
Chris Thyer, ’95, was re-elected
to his third term in the House of
Representatives, District 74 in
Craighead County, Ark.
Cindy Thyer, ’95, was appointed
by Gov. Mike Huckabee as circuit
judge for the Second Judicial District
in Northeast Arkansas. She was
also appointed Chair of the Board
of Governors of the Arkansas Bar
Association. Thyer was on the
Arkansas Business “40 under 40” list
in June 2006.
Will Bond, ’95, became a partner
at the firm of McMath Woods, P.A.
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John K. Baker, ’96, an attorney
with Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates
& Woodyard, PLLC, in Little Rock,
Ark., was recently recognized in the
High Profile section of the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette for his community
service with Camp Aldersgate.
Niki Cung, ’96, has joined Kutak
Rock, LLP, in its Fayetteville, Ark.,
office. Cung conducts a commercial
litigation practice and has experience
in a variety of specialty areas.
Todd P. Lewis, ’96, of Fayetteville,
Ark., has been appointed to the
Judicial Article Implementation Task
Force and Professionalism Task Force
of the Arkansas Bar Association.
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Matt Durrett, ’98, an attorney
with the Washington County
Prosecuting Attorney Office was
elected Vice-President of the
Washington County Bar Association
for 2006.
Patrick John Elko and Allison
Lee Powell Elko, ’98, gave birth to
Jacob Patrick Elko on Nov. 26, 2005.
Denver Peacock, ’98,, director of
public relations for Cranford Johnson
Robinson Woods of Little Rock,
Ark., earned the accreditation in
public relations from the Universal
Accreditation Board of New York.
Jeffrey L. Singleton, ’98, became
a member at the Little Rock, Ark.,
office of Mitchell, Williams, Selig,
Gates & Woodyard, PLLC.
Douglas Wright and Kelli E.
Wright, ’98, gave birth to Anna
Grace Wright on April 20, 2006.
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John Vines, ’99, and Libby
Schnipper Vines gave birth to Reese
Catherine Vines on Dec. 2, 2005.
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David B. Fisher, ’01, has become
an associate of the firm of Warner,
Smith, Harris, PLC.
Ray Benjamin Schlegel, ’01,
and Cheri Whorton Bolinger were
married on March 4, 2006.
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Eric R. Gribble, ’02, recently
joined the law firm of Hope, Fugua
& Campbell, P.A.
Mauricio Herrera, ’02, has
been appointed to the Task Force
on Racial Profiling by Gov. Mike
Huckabee.
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Tam Dai Bauer, ’03, and Steven
Edward Bauer gave birth to Isabella
Tranh Bauer Dec. 16, 2005.
Anna Taylor, ’03, was promoted
to legislative assistant for tax and
budget policy in Senator Blanche
Lincoln’s (D-ARK) congressional
office
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Casey D. Copeland, ’04, has been
appointed to the Lawyers for Literacy
Committee of the Arkansas Bar
Association. Copeland is an attorney
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Janet R. Lawrence, ’04, has been
hired by the Arkansas Department
of Higher Education to manage the
agency’s financial aid department.
Lawrence previously practiced law
with the Harper Law Office, PLLC,
of Monticello, Ark.
Shawn J. Johnson, ’04, joined
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates &
Woodyard, PLLC, as an associate in
the Little Rock, Ark., office.
Nathan Paul Kemper and Mauria
Ellen Jackson,’04, were married on
April 29, 2006.
James August Roe and Amber
Christine Maloy, ’04, were married
on April 15, 2006.
Jono R. Streit, ’04, and Susannah
C. Raney, ’04, were married April 29,
2006.
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Cassandra P. Baldwin, ’05, has
joined Williams & Anderson as
an associate. Baldwin practices in
the areas of business litigation, real
estate law, banking law and general
business transactions.
Cassandra P. Baldwin, ’05,
became an associate at Williams &
Anderson, PLC, in Little Rock, Ark.
Kelly M. DeGostin, ’05,
became an associate at Williams &
Anderson, PLC, in Little Rock, Ark.
Hotspur Closser and Devon Joy
Goodman, ’05, were married on
Sept. 16, 2006.
Kerri Kobbeman, ’05, has joined
the firm of Conner & Winters in the
Tulsa, Okla., office.
Thomas Collier Moore,’05, and
Kara Cain were married on May 27,
2006. Collier joined Harrington,
Miller, Neihouse & Kieklak, PA, in
Springdale, Ark.
L. Joseph Underwood, ’05,
became an associate at Williams &
Anderson, PLC, in Little Rock, Ark.
Underwood practices in the areas of
intellectual property law, including
patents and technology licensing.
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Thomas Lindsey Castleberry,
’06, and Lucy Deann Lewallen were
married on March 18, 2006.
Stephanie
DeClerk, ’06, won
the 2006 Miss
South Arkansas
pageant and
was first runnerup
in the 2006
Miss Arkansas
Pageant. She was
also an evening
wear preliminary winner, talent
preliminary winner and swimsuit
preliminary winner in the pageant.
To submit your announcement to class
action, please e-mail information to Amy
Ramsden at aramsde@uark.edu. Highresolution
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In Memoriam
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Job Serebrov,’90, is now serving
as deputy director of the Arkansas
Department of Environmental
Quality.
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Eric and Henriette Strating
(formerly Henriette Arolt ),’92,
now reside in Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
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Sean Wright and Brigette
Beaton Wright, ’97, gave birth to
Kirsten Rebecca Wright on January
31, 2005.
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Jeff Feirick, ’02, was appointed
by Governor Rendell to serve
on the Pennsylvania Renewable
Agricultural Energy Committee.
The committee is charged with
promoting the utilization of
agriculture to produce energy.
Harrison Pittman, ’02, was
named co-director of the National
Agricultural Law Center and has
become involved in agritourism
promotion.
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Jay Kiiha, ’03, became a partner
in the Idaho law firm of Arkoosh.
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Jillian Hishaw, ’06, is
with the Missouri Department
of Conservation,
acting as a community
conservationist assistant.
Sarah Masimore, ’06,
joined the law firm Stock
& Leader in York, Penn.,
where she will assist the
firm in the development of its
agricultural law practice.
Kurt Olson, ’06, accepted a
position as an associate attorney for
Johnson, Erb, Bice, Kramer, Good,
Mulholland & Cochrane, P.L.C. in
Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Thomas E. Tarpley, ’05,
became an associate at Williams &
Anderson, PLC, in Little Rock.
Judge John Franklin Guatney Jr., ’38
Edwin L. Hill, ’38
Leland Fletcher Leatherman, ’39
Doug O’Brien,’98, was named
co-director of the National
Mark Henry,’04, of the Henry
Law Firm in Fayetteville, Ark.,
Alison Peck, ’06, joined the
University of Arkansas music
department as a candidate for a
vocal performance degree.
Chase Keat Crocker, ’05, has
joined the corporate and securities
practice area of Bass, Berry & Sims,
PLC, in the firm’s Nashville, Tenn.,
downtown office.
Kelly M. DeGostin, ’05, has
joined Williams & Anderson as
an associate. DeGostin practices
in the areas of tax law, real estate
law, banking and general business
transactions.
Meredith K. Lowry, ’05, became
an associate at Keisling Pieper &
Scott, PLC, in Fayetteville, Ark.
Stephen Charles Parker, ’05,
and Kathryn Anne Newberry were
married on July 1, 2006.
Erin E. Walker Thompson, ’05,
has joined Kutak Rock, LLP, in its
Fayetteville, Ark., office. Walker
has been assigned to the litigation
department.
George Edwin “Jetty” Steel, ’40
Thomas M. McCrary, ’43
E.T. “Buck” May, ’51
William J. Wynne, ’51
Eugene F. Petrakis, ’54
Robert R. Wright III, ’56
Jimmy L. Featherston, ’59
James M. Barker Jr., ’61
William Steve Crain, ’67
Dean A. Garrett, ’68
Charles Richard “Rich” Lippard, ’70
Sandra Wilson Cherry, ’75
Agricultural Law Center this fall
in addition to getting married on
Aug. 5, 2006.
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Barclay Rogers,’01, moved to
Auckland, New Zealand, where he
joined the law firm of Chapman
Tripp. He represents major clients
in environmental matters.
Michael Roberts,’01, accepted
a position at Venable Law Firm in
made a presentation on intellectual
property rights and the Farmers
Yield Initiative, a new coalition
related to the Plant Variety
Protection Act at the Kansas
Wheat Conference in July.
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Dawn Marie Stidd, ’05, has
opened her own firm, Stidd Law
Firm, PLC, in El Dorado, Ark.
Collier Moore,’05, became an
Patrick Roberts, ’06, accepted a
position as an associate attorney for
MacNeill & Buffington in Jackson,
Miss.
Brandon Willis, ’06, accepted
a position as legislative assistant
for agriculture to Senator Baucus
of Montana, where his work will
include providing input on farm
bill negotiations.
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Tamla J. Lewis, ’05, joined the
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates
& Woodyard, PLLC, firm in Little
Rock, Ark., as an associate.
Bradley S. Runyon, ’05, has
joined Kutak Rock, LLP, in its Little
Rock, Ark., office to boost the
firm’s litigation and corporate law
capabilities.
Joe K. Hardin, ’78
Ronald Eugene Goins, ’82
Dr. Ernest R. Keown, ’82
F. Lewis Steenken III, ’86
Washington, D.C., which began
on Sept. 1, 2006. He continues
to teach food law as an adjunct
professor in the LL.M. program.
associate in the Roger’s office of
the firm of Harrington, Miller,
Niehouse & Kieklak, P.A.
To submit your announcement to class
action, please e-mail information to Amy
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faculty news
Lonnie Beard was named
associate dean for academic
affairs in July 2006. He presented
“Alphabet Soup of Modern
Business Planning Issues” at the
University of Arkansas at Fort
Smith in May 20, 2005.
Howard W. Brill served as the
interim dean of the School of Law
during the 2005-06 academic year.
He published the 7 th edition of
Arkansas Professional and Judicial
Ethics and the 2005 supplement to
the 5 th edition of The Arkansas Law
of Damages. He gave presentations
on the State of the Law School
in Springfield, Mo. (September 2005); Tulsa, Okla.
(October 2005); Fort Smith, Ark., (November 2005);
the Washington County Bar Association (February
2006); Kansas City, Mo. (February 2006); Paragould,
Ark., (March 2006); Jonesboro, Ark., (March 2006);
and Fayetteville, Ark. (April 2006). Brill presented
a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program on
“The New Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct:
Challenges, Changes, Opportunities” in Fort Smith,
Fayetteville, Paragould, and Jonesboro, Ark. In summer
2005, he taught Comparative Legal Ethics in St.
Petersburg, Russia. He moderated a panel discussion
on “Civility in the Courtroom” as part of the Red
Mass in Little Rock (May 2006) and participated in
a program on “The Ethics of Negotiations” at the
Annual Meeting of the Arkansas Bar Association in
Hot Springs, Ark., in June 2006. It’s his eleventh year
as the University’s Faculty Athletics Representative
to the SEC and the NCAA, responsible for academic
eligibility and compliance. He drafted ethical opinions
for the Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee and was
the reporter for the Professional Ethics Committee
of the Arkansas Bar Association. He gave bar review
lectures on civil procedure, domestic relations and
equity in Fayetteville, Ark., and Little Rock, Ark.
Chauncey Brummer earned the
American Counsel on Education
Teaching Fellows Award for 2005.
Herbert E. Cihak published
“HAVA and Arkansas Election
Law Reform: Compliance and
Promise” in Arkansas Law
Notes 2006 and “Law Libraries:
Maximizing their Impact and
Resources,” Law Library Journal,
Vol. 97, No. 2, spring 2005. He
presented “HAVA and Arkansas
Election Law: An Update” at the University of
Arkansas School of Law Winter CLE in Fayetteville,
Ark., February 2006; “Advocacy and Marketing:
Librarian Tools for Addressing the ABA Section
605 Instructional Mandate” at the Southwestern
Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries
Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, April 2006; and
“Maximizing the Impact and Resources of Libraries and
Continuing Legal Education Departments” at the 2005
Association of American Law Schools Conference in
San Francisco.
Carl Circo published “When
Specialty Designs Cause Building
Disasters: Responsibility for Shared
Architectural and Engineering
Services” in the Nebraska Law
Review, 2005, and “Why Is This
Boilerplate in My Real Estate
Contract?” in Arkansas Law Notes,
2005. He co-authored “Crafting a
License to Use Architectural Plans” in the American
College of Real Estate Lawyers News, May 2005, and
participated in “Allocating Design Responsibility
in the Construction Industry,” a faculty colloquium
presentation at the University of Nebraska College of
Law, fall 2005.
Kim Flanery Coats presented
“Legal Writing for the Business
Client,” CLE Program, Wal-Mart
Legal Department, Bentonville,
Ark., in April 2005 and was a
faculty coach for the American Bar
Association National Appellate
Advocacy Competition in New
York, March 2005. Team members
Brian Newberry and Brandon Carter were semifinalists
in the New York Regional. She was also faculty coach
for the National Criminal Procedure Moot Court
Competition in San Diego in October 2005.
Scott Dodson was hired as
assistant professor of law beginning
the academic year 2006. He
published “Subclassing,” 27
Cardozo L. Rev. 2351 (2006) and
was named the School of Law
representative for the Association
of American Law Schools.
Uche Ewelukwa published
“Litigating the Rights of
Street Children in Regional
or International Fora:
Trends, Options, Barriers and
Breakthroughs” 9 Yale Human
Rights & Development Law Journal
85-131 (2006).
Janet Flaccus presented a CLE
in January 2006 and one at the
Arkansas Bar Association’s Best of
CLE in June 2006, and she spoke
at the Northwest Arkansas Debtor-
Creditor Bar in July.
Don Judges has been selected
a member of the inaugural class
of Leadership Arkansas, which is
sponsored by the Arkansas State
Chamber of Commerce/Associated
Industries of Arkansas.
faculty news
Christopher R. Kelley was
a Fulbright Scholar in Kharkiv,
Ukraine, from Sept. 1, 2005 to
Jan. 5, 2006. Since completing
the Fulbright Scholarship, Kelley
has returned to Kharkiv twice to
participate in conferences and a
series of lectures at the Kharkiv
National University for Internal
Affairs, the Kharkiv National Agrarian University,
and the Kharkiv Law Academy. He also participated
in a CLE conference in St. Paul, Minn., in June 2006
sponsored by the Farmers’ Legal Action Group, Inc.
Mark Killenbeck’s book,
M’Culloch v. Maryland: Securing
a Nation, was published by
University Press of Kansas in
August 2006. He wrote the
chapter “Affirmative Action
and the Courts: From Plessy to
Brown to Grutter, And Back?” in
Legal Decision Making in Everyday
Life: Controversies in Social Consciousness, Richard L.
Wiener et al., Eds., New York: Springer Publishing
Company (to be published in late 2006 or early 2007)
and “M’Culloch v. Maryland,” in The Public Response
to Controversial Supreme Court Decisions, Melvin I.
Urofsky, Ed., Washington: Congressional Quarterly
Press, 2005.
Killenbeck published the “The New Commerce
Clause,” an entry in The Oxford Companion to the
Supreme Court of the United States, Kermit Hall
and James Ely, Eds., New York: Oxford University
Press, 2nd Ed., 2005; “It’s More than a Constitution,”
49 St. Louis University Law Journal 1095 (2005);
and a review of pre-publication review of the book
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise
and Fall of Generational Regimes by Gerard N.
Magliocca, (University Press of Kansas). Killenbeck
presented “The Supreme Court: An Assessment of the
Roberts Court’s First Year,” Supreme Court Update
Teleconference, Arkansas Bar Association, Sept.
26, 2006; “The Roberts Court: Present and Future,”
National Constitution Center Audio Conference, Nov.
14, 2006; and “The Challenge Ahead: Affirmative
Admissions in an Post-Grutter World,” 28th Annual
Legislative Conference of the National Black Caucus
of State Legislators in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 2004.

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Judith Kilpatrick was named
associate dean for diversity,
planning, and special projects
in July 2006. She has published
“Wiley Austin Branton: A Role
Model for All Times,” 48 Howard
Law Journal 827 (2005) and “Wiley
A. Branton and Cooper v. Aaron:
America Fulfills Its Promise,”
Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65, no. 1 (spring 2006): 7-
21. She completed the biographical entries on “Wiley
Austin Branton” and “Christopher C. Mercer” (two
of the school’s early African American graduates) for
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture and
will co-author the general entry on “Law” for the online
publication. Kilpatrick has a forthcoming entry
on “Wiley Austin Branton” for the African American
National Biography, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard
University, Cambridge, in collaboration with Oxford
University Press. Her biography of Wiley Branton will
be published by the University of Arkansas Press in
2007. She was a panelist on “Wiley A. Branton and
Cooper v. Aaron: America Fulfills Its Promise” for
the Mid-America History Conference in Lawrence,
Kan., in September 2005 and will be a panelist on
“Desegregation in Little Rock, the Legal Battle”
for the national Oral History Association in Little
Rock, Ark., in October 2006. She spoke on “The
Ethics of Mediation/Applicable Law & Professional
Rules/Making the Best Use of Requirements” at the
2005 Alternative Dispute Resolution “So You Think
Your Practice Doesn’t Use Mediation,” Arkansas Bar
Association Dispute Resolution Section in Little Rock,
Ark., in April.
Robert Laurence was
interviewed on the air by
the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation in June 2005 about
American Indian and Australian
Aboriginal law, and he served
on a panel sponsored by the
National Resources Journal
and the American Indiana Law
Center talking about the federal government’s trust
responsibility toward Indian tribes. He offered a
private-law, instructional alternative in April 2005.
Laurence also spoke to the Arkansas Farm Bureau on
“Current Issues in Equine Law” in November 2005.
Rob Leflar taught comparative
law at the University of Tokyo
during the 2005-06 academic year
while on leave. Leflar returned
this year to teach Torts, Health
Law, and Products Liability.
His research project comparing
Japanese and American approaches
to the problems of medical error,
supported by grants from the Japan Foundation and
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, has
resulted so far in these publications: “Medical Error as
Reportable Event; as Tort; as Crime: A Transpacific
Comparison,” 12 Widener L. Rev. 189-225 (2005);
“Amerika ni okeru Iryo Rinri Kitei no Kinoteki
Bunseki [A Functional Analysis of Medical Ethics
Codes]” (Chiaki Sato trans.), in Seimei Rinri to Ho
[Bioethics and the Law] 99-116 (Norio Higuchi & Yuko
Tsuchiya eds., Tokyo: Kobundo 2005) (in Japanese);
and a book review of Luke Nottage, Product Safety and
Liability Law in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows,
in 25 Japanese Studies 307 (2005).
Professor Leflar also gave lectures and presented
papers at a wide variety of conferences, workshops,
and other university settings in Japan and the United
States. Since the beginning of 2006, these included
“Disclosure of and Apology for Medical Error: Changes
in Law and Practice in the U.S. and Japan,” Japan
Ass’n of Law & Society, Waseda Univ., Tokyo, July
15, 2006; “Law and Patient Safety in the U.S. and
Japan,” Workshop on Medical Safety and the Law,
Univ. of Tokyo, July 8, 2006 (keynote speaker);
“Nihon to Amerika ni okeru iryō anzen mondai (iryō
kago) ni tsuite” [Issues in Patient Safety and Medical
Malpractice in Japan and the U.S.], Dokkyō Univ.
School of Law, Sōka, Saitama, June 14, 2006 (in
Japanese); “Nichibei hikaku no shiten kara mita iryō
jiko o meguru hō to seiji” [The Law and Politics of
Medical Error from a Comparative Perspective], Kyoto
Univ. Hospital, June 2, 2006 (in Japanese); “Medical
Error as Crime in Japan,” Freeman Symposium on
Health, Law, and Justice in Asia, Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa., April 28, 2006 (opening speaker); “Rikōru
seido no kyōka to anzen jōhō no kyōyūka: Beikoku no
jijō” [Strengthening the Product Recall System and
Sharing Information: U.S. Developments], PL Ombuds
Kaigi, Tokyo, Apr. 4, 2006 (in Japanese); “Crimes,
Torts, Accident Reports: Factual Investigations in
the Medical Context,” Int’l Workshop on Safety Law
Systems, Univ. of Tokyo, Feb. 14, 2006; “The Law,
Politics, and Media Treatment of Medical Error from a
Comparative Perspective,” 1 st Int”l Forum on Patient
Safety, Univ. of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine,
Jan. 23, 2006; “Amerika kara no goaisatsu” [Salutation
from America], Japan Federation of Bar Ass’ns
Symposium on Four Proposed Consumer Rights Laws,
Tokyo, Jan. 21, 2006 (in Japanese); and “Patient Safety
and Medical Ethics: The Dilemmas of Medical Error
Disclosure,” Yokohama City Univ. Faculty of Medicine,
Jan. 16, 2006.
Mary Beth Matthews presented “Considerations
in Choosing Small Business
Entities” to the Benton County
Bar Association on March 2, 2006,
“Payment Devices” at Northwest
Arkansas Debtor-Creditor Bar
meeting on Nov. 2, 2005, and “The
Latest News in Funds Transfers:
Or When is a Check More Like a
Debit Card?” at the Arkansas Bar
Association mid-year meeting in Memphis, Tenn. on
Jan. 21, 2005. She also co-wrote with Steve H. Nickles
Payments Law in a Nutshell, 2005, Thomson West
Company.
Robert B. Moberly was appointed by Gov. Mike
Huckabee as a Commissioner
on the Arkansas Alternative
Dispute Resolution Commission
to serve from 2006-11. He also
was elected as a fellow into the
College of Labor and Employment
Lawyers; was appointed to the
National Academy of Arbitrators
Committee on Professional
Responsibility and Grievances; and was named Chair
of the National Academy of Arbitrators Program
Committee for the 2008 annual meeting in Ottawa,
Canada. Professor Moberly chaired and spoke on a
labor relations panel in New York City at Hofstra
University’s 11th Presidential Conference, titled,
“William Jefferson Clinton: The ‘New Democrat’
from Hope.” Moberly’s article, “Labor-Management
Relations During the Clinton Administration,” has
been accepted for publication by the Hofstra University
School of Law Labor and Employment Law Journal.
faculty news
Michael W. Mullane presented
“The Rule of Law” June 5, 2006, on
National Public Radio’s program
This I Believe. He made a CLE
presentation to the Benton County
Bar Association Aug. 3, 2006, in
Bentonville, Ark.
Cyndi Nance was named dean
in July 2006. Her presentations
in 2005 included: “Why Labor
and Employment Ethics?” at the
Labor and Employment Ethics
Symposium at Chase College
of Law in Covington, Ky. in
November; “The Legal Case for
Diversity,” Diversity: It’s Good
Business – Building a More Inclusive Workplace
and Community, the Northwest Arkansas Human
Resources Association in Springdale in August; “Issues
Raised by Ex Parte Communications with Labor and
Employment Arbitrators,” I Shouldn’t Be Talking to
You About This, But….: Ex Parte Communications in
Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association
Annual Meeting in Chicago, June; “The Greensboro
Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” Law and the
Public-Private Dichotomy: Government Involvement
in Private Life Law and Society Meeting in Las Vegas,
May; “Legal Clinics and Specialty Bars: Partnerships
with the Legal Community,” The Prophetic Work:
Religion and Labor Uniting for Worker Justice
Interfaith Worker Justice National Conference in
Chicago, April; “Eighth Circuit Update,” Arkansas Bar
Association, 28th Annual Labor and Employment Law
Conference in Fayetteville; and “Are We Living Dr.
King’s Legacy?” Third Annual Martin Luther King Day
at Northwest Arkansas Community College in January.
Nance was also the moderator for “1991 Amendments,
Supreme Court Cases, Race and Beyond,” The Civil
Rights Act Symposium, Arkansas Bar Association,
Labor and Employment Law Section in Little Rock in
September. Her publications include: “Why Labor and
Employment Ethics?” Northern Kentucky Law Review
(2006); “Widgets to Digits, Reimagining Protective
Workplace Policy,” book review in Employee Rights and
Employment Policy Journal, 2006; “Issues Raised by Ex
Parte Communications with Labor and Employment
Arbitrators,” American Bar Association, Labor and
Employment Law Section, Proceedings; “A Colorable
Claim Under Title VII,” 26 Berkeley Lab & Emp.

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L. J. 433 (2005); and “Spoliation of Evidence in
Employment Law Cases,” 40 Brandeis Law Journal 165
(2005). She was awarded the Arkansas Bar Association
2005 Outstanding Lawyer-Citizen Award and an
Arkansas Bar Association Best of CLE 2005.
Phil Norvell presented
“Concurrent Ownership and Oil
and Gas Leasing in Arkansas,”
the Arkansas Bar Association’s
Natural Resources Law Institute in
Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 24, 2006,
and “Mineral Conveyancing and
the Doctrine of After-Acquired
Title,” Oklahoma Bar Association
Meeting in Oklahoma City, Nov. 4, 2005.
Doug O’Brien was named
interim co-director of the National
Agricultural Law Center for
the academic year 2006-07. He
presented “Animal Identification”
to the staff of the U.S. House
of Representatives in March
2005 in Washington, D.C.;
“Investment Cooperatives” at the
Texas Cooperative Manager’s Conference in Ruidosa,
N.M., July 2005; “Producer Marketing Associations”
at the National Workshop for State and Local Food
Policy in Des Moines, Iowa, September 2005; and
“Administrative Law Update” to the American
Agricultural Law Association in Kansas City, Mo.,
October 2005. He published “Legal and Policy
Considerations of Investor Friendly Cooperatives,”
National Agricultural Law Center, Jan. 27, 2005, and
co-wrote the book The Farmer’s Legal Guide to Producer
Marketing Associations with Neil Hamilton and Robert
Luedeman.
Harrison M. Pittman was
named interim co-director of
the National Agricultural Law
Center for the academic year
2006-07. He received the Ben
J. Altheimer Distinguished
Professorship for Agricultural Law
to be an adjunct professor at the
University of Arkansas at Little
Rock William H. Bowen School of Law (summer
2005) and taught at the Arkansas Agricultural and
Rural Leadership Program, University of Arkansas
Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.
He published West’s Federal Administrative Practice
(updated chapters on Domestic Commodity Programs,
Conservation Programs, Federal Crop Insurance, and
National Appeals Division); “Validity, Construction,
and Application of State Constitutional and Statutory
Provisions Regarding Corporate Farming,” 125 Arkansas
Law Review 5 th 147 (2005); “Validity, Construction, and
Application of States’ Right-to-Farm Laws,” 8 Arkansas
Law Review 6 th 465 (2005); “The Constitutionality
of Corporate Farming Laws in the Eighth Circuit;”
“Market Concentration, Horizontal Consolidation, and
Vertical Integration in the Hog and Cattle Industries:
Taking Stock of the Road Ahead;” “Supreme Court
Considers Preemption of State Law Claims Under the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act;”
and contributed a monthly legal column to Progressive
Farmer magazine. Pittman presented “Brazilian Cotton
Farmers and Arkansas Farms: The Road Ahead” to the
Arkansas Bar Association Best of CLE Fayetteville,
June 23, 2006; “Agricultural Law and Policy Issues in
Arkansas,” Arkansas Bar Association annual meeting,
Hot Springs, June 2006; “Future of Farm Programs and
Relevance to Environmental Law,” annual meeting
of the Environmental Law Section, Arkansas and
Oklahoma Bar Associations, Eureka Springs, Ark., April
7, 2006; “Agricultural Liens in Arkansas and the United
States,” Arkansas Bar Association mid-year meeting in
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 20, 2006; “Legal Developments
Regarding Corporate Farming Laws and the Packers and
Stockyards Act and Their Relationship to Agricultural
Financing,” American Agricultural Law Association,
American Bar Association Business Section: Ag Finance
Subcommittee; “Brazilian Cotton Farmers and Arkansas
Farms: The Road Ahead,” Arkansas Bar Association,
Fall Legal Institute in Fayetteville, Ark., Oct. 14, 2005;
“Use of Nonprofit Corporations in the Joint Producer
Context,” Iowa State Food Policy Council; and
“Recognizing Risk Exposure and Limiting Liability in the
Agritourism Context,” Indiana Horticulture Congress.
He was a moderator for the Panel of USDA Arkansas
State Directors for Disaster Assistance, Farm Programs,
Rural Development, and Conservation Programs at
the Annual National Conference for the League of
United Latin American Citizens. Pittman also founded
the Agricultural Law Section of the Arkansas Bar
Association, was the interim chair of the Agricultural
Law Section, the chair of the Agricultural Law Section
2005, and was on the Membership Committee of the
American Agricultural Law Association.
Kathryn A. Sampson served
as the faculty advisor for the
School of Law Fall Moot Court
Competition and the Ben J.
Altheimer Spring Moot Court
Competition. She was the faculty
coach for the National Moot
Court Competition and the
Jessup International Law Moot
Court Competition and presented “A Sabbatical
Approach to Rejuvenation on Your Home Campus,”
Legal Writing Institute in Atlanta, June 2006. She
developed the course “Guardianship” in July 2005
and created its original casebook focused on Arkansas
statutory and case law and legal scholarship. Sampson
developed “Insurance Subrogation” in May 2005 and
created the casebook, focusing on Arkansas cases and
statutes, the outlines and the suggestions of subrogation
issues from Bob Jerry’s Understanding Insurance Law.
Sampson was re-elected in July 2005 to a second fiveyear
term on the Winthrop Rockefeller Distinguished
Lectures (WRDL) Committee, which is comprised of
state business leaders and faculty members from five
Arkansas universities. Recent WRDL speakers include
poet laureate Billy Collins on Feb. 6, 2006 and novelist
Isabel Allende, who spoke Oct. 26, 2004. Sampson has
continued as co-chair of the University of Arkansas
Distinguished Lectures Committee, which has brought
James Carville and Mary Matalin, March 30, 2006, and
Robert Redford on May 5, 2005.
Susan A. Schneider’s legal
publications include: “Who Gets
the Check: Determining When
Federal Farm Program Payments
Are Property of the Bankruptcy
Estate,” 84 Neb. L. Rev 469 (2005);
“Bankruptcy Reform: Changes to
Chapter 12 – Adjustment of Debts
of a Family Farmer,” 2005 Arkansas
Law Notes (fall 2005); and “Bankruptcy Reform and
Family Farmers: Correcting the Disposable Income
Problem,” 38 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 309 (2006). She was
a contributing author to Consumer Bankruptcy Law
and Practice, “Update on Chapter 12 Under the 2005
Bankruptcy Reform Act,” National Consumer Law
Center (2005) and “Bankruptcy Reform: Changes to
Chapter 12 – Family Farmer Reorganization,” Farmers’
Legal Action Report, Vol. 20, Issue 2 at 1 (2005). She
presented the following: “Farm Program Payments
in Bankruptcy” at the Arkansas Bar Association
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Best of CLE Fayetteville on June 23, 2006; “Hmong
Poultry Farmers in Northwest Arkansas, Missouri and
Oklahoma” at the Farmer Legal Action Group, Inc.,
seminar Cutting Edge Issues in Agriculture Today
on June 12, 2006 in St. Paul, Minn.; and “Federal
Programs in Bankruptcy: Who Gets the Check?” at
the Best of CLE Fayetteville and at the Arkansas
Bar Association mid-year meeting in Memphis,
Tenn., January 2006. Schneider also presented at
the American Agricultural Law Association Annual
Educational Conference in Kansas City, Mo., October
2005, and at the Farm, Ranch & Agribusiness
Bankruptcy Institute in Lubbock, Texas, September
2005. Her professional services in 2005 included
completing a three-year term on the Board of Directors
of the American Agricultural Law Association
(AALA). Schneider is Chair of the Communications
Committee for the AALA and a 2005-06 member of
the Nominations Committee.
Steve Sheppard earned his
Doctor of Science of Law in 2006
from Columbia University. He
co-wrote American Law in a Global
Context: The Basics with George P.
Fletcher (Oxford University Press,
2005), an introduction to the law
and law practice of the United
States. The book is the primary
textbook for the Masters of Law courses at Columbia,
Indiana, Miami, New York University, and UCLA,
among others (reviewed by Kirk Randazo, 15 Law and
Politics Book Review 617 (2005). Sheppard also cowrote
with Fletcher A Guide for Teachers: American
Law in a Global Context: The Basics (Oxford University
Press, 2005), a 250-page supplement for Web-based
teaching. He published the following: “Guerrilla
Parties, The Lieber Code, and the Law of War, in
Francis Lieber” in Instructions for the Government of
Armies of the United States (Lawbook Exchange, 2005),
an essay, introducing the life of Francis Lieber and
history of the document for the modern law of war;
“Officials’ Obligations To Children: The Perfectionist
Response to Liberals and Libertarians, Or Why Adult
Rights Are Not Trumps Over the State Duty to Ensure
Each Child’s Education,” 3 Michigan State Law Review
(2005); “The Ghost in the Law School: How Duncan
Kennedy Caught the Hierarchy Zeitgeist but Missed
the Point,” 55 Journal of Legal Education 94 (March,
June 2005), part of the symposium “Revisiting a
Classic: Duncan Kennedy’s Legal Education and the

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Reproduction of Hierarchy;” “The Laws of War in
the Pre-dawn Light: Institutions and Obligations in
Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War,” 43 Columbia Journal
of Transnational Law 905 (2005); and “Intelligible,
Honest, and Impartial Democracy: Making Laws at
the Arkansas Ballot Box, or Why Jim Hannah and
Ray Thornton were Right about May v. Daniels,”
2005 Arkansas Law Notes, which will be reprinted in
the Arkansas Politics Reader (University of Arkansas
Press, 2006). Sheppard’s article “The Metamorphoses
of Reasonable Doubt: How Changes in the Burden of
Proof Have Weakened the Presumption of Innocence,”
78 Notre Dame Law Review 1165 (2003) was quoted
by the Utah Supreme Court in State v. Reyes, 116
P.3d 305, 527 Utah Adv. Rep. 10, 2005 UT 33, Utah,
June 7, 2005. He presented “The Common Law and
the Constitution: John Locke and the Missing Link
in Law” to the American Society of Legal History in
November 2005 and gave the Constitution Day address
with Todd Shields and Don Kelly in September 2005.
Ned Snow was hired as an
assistant professor of law beginning
the academic year 2006. In
the past year, he has published
“Accessing the Internet Through
the Neighbor’s Wireless Internet
Connection: Physical Trespass in
Virtual Reality,” 84 Nebraska Law
Review 1226 (2006), and “The
TiVo Question: Does Skipping Commercials Violate
Copyright Law?” 56 Syracuse Law Review 27 (2005).
His forthcoming article, “A Copyright Conundrum:
Protecting Email Privacy” will be published in the
Spring issue of The University of Kansas Law Review.
Professor Snow spoke about how the arguments in his
forthcoming article relate to issues of national security
at the American Bar Association Law Student Division
2006 Fall Northeast Roundtable at the University
of Pennsylvania. He also presented the article at
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva
University on Oct. 16, 2006.
Tim Tarvin presented “Inclusive
Boards for a Diverse Community”
to recruit members of the non-
Anglo community to participate
in nonprofit governance in
Springdale, April 12, 2006,
sponsored by IBossWell &
The National Conference for
Community and Justice through
a grant from the CommunityCare Foundation. He
also presented “The Role of the Law School Legal
Clinic” at the Northwest Arkansas Debtor-Creditor
Bar meeting, Feb. 3, 2006; “The Pro Se Litigant” at
the Annual Conference of the Arkansas Association
of Administrative Adjudicators, Nov. 18, 2005;
and “Debtor’s Duties under the Bankruptcy Abuse
Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2005” at the
Northwest Arkansas Debtor-Creditor Bar meeting,
Oct. 3, 2005. Tarvin was the principal investigator
on a grant from the CommunityCare Foundation for
the Web site Legal eSource, devoted to informing
and educating the nonprofit community of Northwest
Arkansas, launched July 31, 2006, by the Law
School and the School of Continuing Education and
Academic Outreach.
closed cases: 2007 Graduating Class
LLM Graduate Program in Agricultural Law
Marne Coit, B.A., Anthropology
& Human and Natural Ecology, Emory
University (1996), J.D., Vermont Law
School (2004) M.S.E.L., Vermont Law
School (2005) (magna cum laude)
• Law Clerk, Randolph, VT
• Law Clerk, The Center for Food
Safety, Washington D.C.
• Intern, Valley Food & Farm
• Intern, Office of the Attorney
General, Civil Rights Unit
Emilie Leibovitch, B.A.,
Criminology, University of Miami
(2003) (Phi Beta Kappa) (cum laude),
J.D., UALR, Bowen School of Law
(2006)
• Director of American Civil
Liberties Union, Student
Chapter, UALR
• CALI Award Recipient,
(Immigration law legal writing
award)
• Law Clerk, Milton A. DeJesus,
Little Rock, AR
• Law Clerk, P. Tristan
Bourgoignie, Coral Gables, FL
Amy Miller, B.S., Management,
Purdue University (2002) (Phi Beta
Kappa) (with distinction), J.D., Indiana
University School of Law (2006) (cum
laude)
• Legal Intern, Indiana Farm Bureau
• Legal Intern, Indiana Department
of Environmental Management
• Publication: Blue Rush:Is
Privatization a Viable Solution
For Developing Countries in the
Face of an Impending World
Water Crisis? 16 IND. INT’L &
COMP. L.REV. (2005)
Chuck Munson, B.S.,
Environmental Science Biology,
University of Central Arkansas (2001),
J.D., University of Arkansas School of
Law (2006)
• Law Clerk, Jones, Jones & Doss,
P.L.C., Fayetteville, AR
• Field Biologist, Smithsonian
C.R.C.
• Publications: Point Count
Sampling, Arkansas Academy
of Sciences (2001); Survey of
Distributional and Seasonal
Abundance of Winter/Spring
Birds, Arkansas Academy of
Sciences (2001)
Eric Pendergrass, B.S., Agriculture,
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
(2003), J.D., University of Arkansas
School of Law (2006) (cum laude)
• Law Clerk, Bassett Law Firm,
Fayetteville
• Law Clerk, Arkansas Attorney
General’s Office, Civil Division,
Little Rock
• Publication: (co-author) Popp,
J., T. Griffin and E. Pendergrass:
How Cooperation may Lead
toConsensus: Assessing the
Realities and Perceptions of
Precision Farming in Your
State(2002)

LLM Graduate Program in Agricultural Law
Jeffrey A. Peterson, B.A.,
Economics and Management, Hamline
University (1997), J.D., University of
Kansas (2001)
• Articles editor, KANSAS
JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC
POLICY
• Legal Extern, Hon. Judge
Flannagan, U.S. Bankruptcy
Court
• President, Kansas Bar Association,
Corporation, Banking and
Business Law Section
• Attorney, Woner, Glenn, Reeder,
Girard & Riordan, P.A.
• Publication: 1996 Farm Bill: What
to (Re)do in 2002, 11 KAN.
J.PUB. POL’CY (2001)
Craig Raysor, B.S., Political
Science, Randolph-Macon College
(2003), J.D., Roger Williams University
School of Law (2006) (cum laude)
(Honors Program)
• Legal Intern, Target Corporation
• Legal Intern, Philip Morris
• Publication: Can I Bum a Light:
An Illuminated Journey Through
the Proposed ‘Fire-Safe’ Cigarette
Legislation
Autumn Tolbert, B.A., Political
Science, University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville (2003), J.D., University of
Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville
(2006)
• Office of Public Defender,
Fayetteville, AR
• Arkansas Attorney General’s
office, Little Rock
• Innocence Project Arkansas
For students who did not have a
photograph taken, we have substituted
the bust of Robert A. Leflar, after whom
the Leflar Law Center is named.
Erimar von der Osten, Licentiate of
Law, Universitat
Saabrucken, Germany (with
honors) (1989)
• Managing Director, Chairman and
Principal of Hornblower Ficher &
Co., New York
• Member of the NYSE Board of
Arbitration
• General Securities Principal
(Series 24)
• Financial and Operations
Principal (Series 27); -
Executive member of the Board
of Arbeitsgemeinschaaft fur
Agrarfragen e. V, (Agricultural
and Forestry Association).
Yufeng Xie, L.L.B., Economic Law,
North China University of Technology
(2002)
• Legal Advisor, China Council for
the Promotion of International
Trade
• Legal Advisor, Bejjing Huadu Co.
Ltd.
closed cases: 2007 Graduating Class
JD Program in Law
Ranada DeOtte Adams, B.A.
Communications/Business
Administration, Texas A&M
University
College Station, Texas
• Dean’s List
• Phi Delta Phi
• Clerk, Warner, Smith & Harris
• Clerk, Hamilton, Warren &
Bovos
• Legal Writing Paper Published on
U.S. Law Professor Data Base
Tina Louise Adcock, B.A. English,
Texas A&M University
Arlington, Texas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Arkansas Attorney
General’s office
• Dean and re-founding member,
Delta Theta Phi
• Social Chair, Women’s Law
Student Association
• Black Law Student Association
Chidinma Ahia, B.A. Political
Science/Interpersonal Communications,
Rider University
Yardley, Pennsylvania
• Judicial Clerkship, Arkansas
Supreme Court, Justice Annabelle
Clinton-Imber
• President, Black Law Student
Association
• Jessup International Moot Court
Traveling Team
• Frederick Douglass Moot Court
Traveling Team
• Board of Advocates
Fred Ainsley, B.A. Political
Science, Wabash College
Setauket, New York
Jessica Alley, B.A. Biology,
Rhodes College
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Phi Delta Phi
• Quarterfinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• National Lawyers Guild
fvHaywood Burns Fellow, 2005
• Board of Advocates
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
Derick Allison, B.A. Liberal Arts,
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith
Mansfield, Arkansas
Candace E. Anderson, B.A.
History, Mississippi State University
Springdale, Arkansas
• Student-Editor, Journal of
Islamic Law & Culture
• Rule XV Student Attorney,
Prosecution Clinic, General
Practice Clinic, Innocence
Project
• Clerk, Jones, Jones & Doss,
PLC
• Dean’s List
June Anteski, B.A. Secondary
Education/Social Studies, Purdue
University
Mountain Home, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
• Pro Bono Paralegal, Legal Aid
of Arkansas
• Secretary, Delta Theta Phi
• Women’s Law Student
Association
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JD Program in Law
Rudy Arámbulo, B.A. Spanish,
College of the Ozarks Branson, Missouri
• Clerk, Washington County Public
Defenders Office
• Internship, Linklaters
International Law Firm, Madrid
Spain
• Habitat for Humanity Wills
Project
Zac Baker, B.S. Accounting,
M.B.A. Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
John D. Bass, B.A. Psychology,
University of Arkansas
Conway, Arkansas
• Arkansas Law Review
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Harrington, Miller,
Neihouse & Kieklak
• Law School Mentor Program
Daniel J. Beck, B.S. Psychology,
Arkansas State University
Batesville, Arkansas
• Executive Editor, Journal of Food
Law & Policy
• Judicial Extern, Judge David
Clinger
• Environmental Law Society
Caroline S. Bednar, B.A. History/
Political Science, Lyon College
Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Secretary/Treasurer, Board of
Advocates
• Clerk, Pulaski County Prosecutor’s
Office
• Women’s Law Student
Association
Kassandra M. Bentley, B.A.
Political Science, John Brown
University
Siloam Springs, Arkansas
• Note & Comment Editor,
Arkansas Law Review
• Vice President, Federalist Society
• Christian Legal Society
• Presidential Scholar
• Dean’s List
Mark S. Booher, B.A. Business
Administration, Columbia College
Springdale, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Cox, Cox & Estes, PLLC;
Reece, Moore & Pendergraft, LLP
• Clerk, Office of the District
Prosecutor, Washington &
Madison Counties
• Law School Mentor Program
Cornelius Boone, B.A. Political
Science, University of Arkansas
Smackover, Arkansas
Justin Burgess, B.B.A. Business
Administration, University of Central
Oklahoma
Ulysses, Kansas
• Delta Theta Phi
• American Bar Association
Student Division
• American Association of
Professional Landmen
• Student Bar Association
Tiffany L. Burnett, B.A. English,
University of Arkansas
Charleston, Arkansas
• Note & Comment Editor, Journal
of Food Law & Policy
• Dean’s List
• Fourth Place, Client Counseling
Competition
• Participant, Negotiation
Competition
• Clerk, Pettus, Pettus, McGuire &
Damron, PA
Jeanie S. Callicott, B.S. Political
Science/Journalism, Southern Arkansas
University
Star City, Arkansas
• Editor, Journal of Food Law &
Policy
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Pettus, Petus, McGuire &
Damron
• Phi Delta Phi
• Women’s Law Student Association
Jordan Camp, B.A. Philosophy,
Arkansas State University
Pocahontas, Arkansas
Brian L. Campbell, B.S.B.A.
Business Administration/Marketing,
University of Arkansas
Springdale, Arkansas
• Treasurer, Equal Justice Works
• Judicial Extern, Judge Mary Ann
Gunn
Elizabeth B. Carr, B.A. Humanities,
Louisiana College
Bryan, Texas
• Phi Delta Phi
• Social Chair, Women’s Law
Student Association
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Bolen, Parker & Brenner,
Ltd., Alexandria, Louisiana
Lena Caroline Cearley, B.A.
Speech, Arkansas Tech University
Greenwood, Arkansas
• Clerk, Wright & Baker, PA
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Women’s Law Student Association
• Student Bar Association
• Judicial Extern, Judge Mark
Lindsay
JD Program in Law
Winston Bryan Collier, B.A.
Political Science/English, University of
Mississippi
Searcy, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Board of Advocates
• Quarterfinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
• Study Abroad, Cambridge,
England
Christopher Ryan Cooper, B.S.
Philosophy, Arkansas State University
Pocahontas, Arkansas
• Charles T. and Mary A. Pearson
Fellowship
• Mentor Program
• Arkansas Law Review
• Dean’s List
Aaron P. Cousins, B.A. Political
Science, Hendrix College
Rogers, Arkansas
• Winner, Client Counseling and
Traveling Team
• Dean’s List
• Federalist Society
Amanda R. Cox, B.A. Psychology,
University of Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Associate Editor, Journal of Food
Law & Policy
• Summer Associate, Warner, Smith
& Harris, PLC
• Clerk, Bassett Law Firm
• Phi Delta Phi
• Dean’s List
Jordan Crews, B.A. Sociology/
Criminal Justice, University of
Arkansas
Mountain Home, Arkansas
• Clerk, Offices of the Attorney
General
• Dean’s List
• Judicial Extern, Judge Xollie
Duncan

JD Program in Law
Annie Dai, B.S. Biology, University
of Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Clerk, Hall, Estill, Hardwick,
Gable, Golden & Nelson, PC
• Quarterfinalist, Client Counseling
Competition
• Student Bar Association
Alberta Davis, B.S. Business
Administration, University of Florida,
M.B.A. Old Dominion University
Gainesville, Florida
• Journal of Food Law & Policy
• Dean’s List
• Phi Delta Phi
• Women’s Law Student
Association
• Law School Mentor Program
Jerry Spencer Davis, Jr., B.S.
Computer Engineering, University of
Arkansas
Greenville, Texas
• Phi Delta Phi
• Dean’s List
Denis Allen Dean, Jr., B.A. English
Literature, Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
• Dean’s List
• Semifinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• Clerk, Harrington, Miller,
Neihouse & Kieklak
• Vice President, Federalist Society
• Officer, Christian Legal Society
Jamie Goss Dempsey, B.A.
American Studies, Georgetown
University
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Editor-in-Chief, Arkansas Law
Review
• Winner, Ben J. Altheimer Moot
Court Competition, 2006
• National Criminal Procedure
Moot Court Traveling Team
• Vice-Chair, Honor Council
• Dean’s List
Abraham Deutchman, B.A.
Political Science, Hendrix College
Houston, Texas
Tim D. Dockery, B.A. Christian
Studies, Ouachita Baptist University
Jackson, Tennessee
• Clerk, Niblock Law Firm
• ATLA: Student Chapter of
the American Trial Lawyers
Association
• Summer Intern, Legal Aid of
Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Environmental Law Society
Mark Brandon Duch, B.S.B.A.
Information Systems, University of
Arkansas
Harrison, Arkansas
• American Trial Lawyers
Association Mock Trial Traveling
Team
• Quarterfinalist, William H. Sutton
Trial Competition
• Chair, Board of Advocates Client
Counseling Competition
• Arkansas Law Review
• Clerk, Kutak & Rock, LLP
Jennifer Lueker DuCharme, B.S.
Political Science, Arkansas State
University
Lafe, Arkansas
• Candidate, Arkansas Law Review
• Clerk, Martin & Kieklak
• Dean’s List
• Phi Delta Phi
• Equal Justice Works
Raven Dukes, B.B.A. Marketing,
University of Central Arkansas
Stuttgart, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Judicial Extern, Judge David
Clinger
• Clerk, Warren Law Firm
• Law School Mentor Program
• Recipient, Arkansas Bar
Association Scholarship
Wade M. Early, B.A. Political
Science/Spanish, Missouri Southern
State College
Buckhorn, Missouri
• Arkansas Law Review
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Matthews, Campbell,
McClure, Thompson & Fryauf
• Clerk, Blackwell, Sanders, Peper
& Martin
Kelly Edington, B.S.B.A. Business
Management, University of Arkansas
Russellville, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Slinkard Law Firm
• Phi Delta Phi
• Rule XV Student Attorney,
Transactional Clinic
• H.L.A. Hart Society
Jay Esh, B.S.B.A. Information
Systems, University of Arkansas
Childress, Texas
• Journal of Islamic Law & Culture
• Judicial Extern, Judge Richard
Taylor
• Dean’s List
Joel Isaac Farthing, B.S.
Microbiology/French, University of
Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Student Editor, Journal of Islamic
Law & Culture
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Bassett Law Firm
Ron Fink, B.A. Literary Studies,
M.A. History of Ideas, University of
Texas-Dallas
Dallas, Texas
• Clerk, Washington County Public
Defender
• Federalist Society
• Arkansas Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers
JD Program in Law
Travis J. Fowler, B.A. English
Literature, Rhodes College
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Journal of Food Law & Policy
• Board of Advocates
• Dean’s List
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
Traveling Team
• Clerk, Williams & Anderson,
PLC; Friday, Eldredge & Clark,
LLP
Cedrick Charles Frazier, B.A.
Sociology, Austin College
Houston, Texas
• Black Law Student Association,
Christian Legal Society, and
Media, Entertainment and Sports
Law Association
• Student Representative,
LexisNexis
• Student Representative, PMBR
• Honorable Mention, LRW II Oral
Argument, Spring 2005
• Law School Community Life
Committee
Jared Gann, B.F.A. Theatre Arts,
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Chair, Board of Advocates
• Vice President, Student Bar
Association
• Best Oralist, Jessup International
Moot Court Traveling Team,
Preliminary Round
• Semifinalist, Benjamin J.
Altheimer Moot Court
Competition
• Clerk, Arkansas Attorney General
Darrell Gibby, B.S. Social Science,
Colorado State University-Pueblo
Rogers, Arkansas
• Clerk, McCracken Law Firm, PA
• Clerk, Davis & Associates, PA
• Judicial Extern, Judge John R.
Scott

JD Program in Law
Rosie Marie Glenn, B.A.
Communication Studies, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
Helena, Arkansas
• Intern, Office of Congressman
Boozman
• Black Law Student Association
• Women’s Law Student
Association
• Law School Mentor Program
• Student Member, American Bar
Association
Kelley J. Gossett, B.A., M.A.
Journalism, University of Arkansas
Booneville, Arkansas
• Best Brief, Ben J. Altheimer Moot
Court Competition
• Vice-President, Women’s Law
Student Association
• Coordinator, Law School Mentor
Program
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
• Dean’s List
Megan Eileen Guthrie, B.S.
Business Administration, Arkansas
State University
Gosnell, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
Kathryn Hake, B.S. Social
Sciences, California Polytechnic State
University San Luis Obispo, California
• Associate Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Phi Delta Phi
• Clerk, Rose Law Firm, PA;
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, LLP;
Odom & Elliott, PA
• Dean’s List
Drew A. Harmon, B.A. History,
University of Arkansas Fort Smith,
Arkansas
• Secretary, Student Conduct
Council
• Environmental Law Society
• Student Bar Association
• Law School Mentor Program
• Clerk, Brice, Vander, Linden &
Wernick, PC
David M. Harper, Jr., B.A. Biology,
Southern Methodist University Fort
Smith, Arkansas
• Clerk, Bassett Law Firm
• Dean’s List
John Harriman, B.S.B.A. Finance,
University of Arkansas Van Buren,
Arkansas
• Member, Arkansas Law Review
• Judicial Extern, Judge Mary Ann
Gunn
• President, Student Bar
Association
• Clerk, Mitchell, Williams, Selig,
Gates, & Woodyard, PLLC
• Clerk, Quattlebaum, Grooms,
Tull & Burrow, PLLC
Amanda LaRell Hart, B.A.
Political Science/Communication,
University of Arkansas Farmington,
Arkansas
• Board of Advocates
• Fall Moot Court
• Spring Moot Court
• President, Federalist Society
Hae-Sook Suh Hassing, B.A.
History, Temple University Palisades
Park, New Jersey
• Clerk, Wal-Mart Realty Company
• National Asian Pacific American
Law Student Association
• Delta Theta Phi
• Law School Mentor Program
Clay Hearrell, B.A. Political
Science, Austin College
Sherman, Texas
Kendre L. R. Henderson, B.A.
English, University of Texas-Austin
Plano, Texas
• Member, Jessup International Law
Moot Court
• Secretary, Student Bar
Association
• President, Black Law Student
Association
• Justice, Associated Student
Government Judicial Board
• Clerk, City of Fayetteville
Prosecutor’s Office
Jennifer Akre Hill, B.A.
Economics, Southwestern University
Sugar Land, Texas
• Note & Comment Editor, Journal
of Food Law & Policy
• National Trial Competition
Traveling Team
• National Institute for Trial
Advocacy Tournament of
Champions
• Board of Advocates
• Phi Alpha Delta
Scott Allen Hill, B.A. Sociology/
Criminal Justice, University of
Arkansas
Sugar Land, Texas
• Board of Advocates
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
Traveling Team
• Dean’s List
• Phi Alpha Delta
JD Program in Law
Hadley Carson Hindmarsh, B.S.
Psychology, University of Arkansas
Rogers, Arkansas
• National Moot Court
Competition Traveling Team
• Finalist, Ben J. Altheimer Spring
Moot Court Competition, 2006
• Judicial Extern, Judge John Scott
• Chair, Board of Advocates Trial
Competition
• Clerk, Daily & Woods, PLLC
Stuart C. Hindmarsh, B.B.A.
Management Information Systems,
University of Central Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Associate Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Finalist, Benjamin J. Altheimer
Moot Court Competition, 2006
• Board of Advocates
• Vanderbilt First Amendment
Moot Court Competition
• Charles T. and Mary A. Pearson
Fellowship
Casey Hinson, B.S. Political
Science, Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, Tennessee
Joshua J. Hofer, B.A. History, John
Brown University
Springdale, Arkansas
• Articles Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Ben J. Altheimer Moot Court
Competition
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Arkansas Attorney
General; Kutak & Rock, LLP

JD Program in Law
Ashley Rebecca Hudson, B.A.
English Literature, Vanderbilt
University, M.A. Comparative Politics,
University of Arkansas
Paris, Illinois
• Note & Comment Editor,
Arkansas Law Review
• Co-Chair, Board of Advocates
Spring Moot Court
• Dean’s List
• Phi Delta Phi
• Vice-President, Arkansas Trial
Lawyers’ Association, University
of Arkansas Chapter
Megan J. Hudson, B.S. Psychology,
University of Central Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Law School Mentor Program
• Women’s Law Student
Association
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Negotiation Competition
• Client Counseling Competition
Jennifer R. Jameson, B.A. English,
Southern Arkansas University
Magnolia, Arkansas
• Clerk, Bell Law Firm, PA
Britt Cannon Johnson, B.A.
Classical Civilization, Howard
University
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Board of Advocates
• Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial
Traveling Team
• Clerk, Pulaski County Prosecutor
• Clerk, Arkansas Attorney General
Colin M. Johnson, B.S.
Microbiology, University of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
• American Trial Lawyers
Association Mock Trial Traveling
Team
• Treasurer, Student Bar
Association
• Dean’s List
Greneda Johnson, B.A. Political
Science/Legal Studies, University of
Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Member, Black Law Student
Association
• Clerk, Wal-Mart Licensing/
Compliance
• Law School Mentor Program
• Secretary, Media, Entertainment
& Sports Law Association
Bernitha Faye Jones, B.S.B.A.
International Economics/Business,
M.P.A., University of Arkansas
Houston, Texas
• Chair, Board of Advocates Fall
Moot Court
• Clerk, University of Arkansas
Men’s Athletic Compliance;
Oscar M. Telfair III, PC; Charles
Mulvey; Harris County Civil
Court System
• All University Judicial Board
• President, Media, Entertainment
& Sports Law Association
• W. P. Putnam Inns of Court
Justin L. Jones, B.S. Marketing,
Henderson State University
Magnet Cove, Arkansas
• Note & Comment Editor,
Arkansas Law Review
• Judicial Clerkship, Judge Mary
Ann Gunn
• Clerk, Husch & Eppenberger,
LLC; Friday, Eldredge & Clark,
LLP; Bassett Law Firm
• Dean’s List
• William H. Sutton Barrister’s
Union Trial Competition
Teá S. Jones, B.A. Public
Administration, Henderson State
University
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Editor, Journal of Islamic Law &
Culture
• Social Chair, Black Law Student
Association
• Phi Delta Phi
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
Adrienne Jung, B.S.B.A.
Economics/Marketing, University of
Arkansas
Van Buren, Arkansas
• Chair, Board of Advocates
Negotiation Competition
• President, Phi Delta Phi Honor
Fraternity
• Quarterfinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Rose Law Firm; Wright,
Lindsey & Jennings
Yarlee Jung, B.S. Accounting,
California State University-Los
Angeles
Los Angeles, California
• Honorable Mention, Negotiation
Competition, 2004
• Member, Delta Theta Phi
• Treasurer, Women’s Law Student
Association
• Clerk, James, Daniel &
Associates, Inc.
• Innocence Project
Tami Mechelle Kelley, B.S.
Psychology, Arkansas State University
Newport, Arkansas
• Clerk, April Shy, Attorney Ad
Litem
• Clerk, Judge Stacey A.
Zimmerman
• Secretary, Women’s Law Student
Association
• Bailiff, Delta Theta Phi
• Innocence Project
Jane A. Kim, B.A. Broadcast
Journalism, University of Missouri
Chicago, Illinois
• Best Brief, Ben J. Altheimer Moot
Court Competition
• Judicial Extern, Judge Richard
Taylor, U.S. Bankruptcy Court
• President, Asian Pacific American
Law Student Association
• Board of Advocates
• Dean’s List
JD Program in Law
Andrew King, B.S. Mathematics,
University of Arkansas
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Articles Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Quarterfinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• Second Place, Client Counseling
Competition, 2005
Jeffrey P. Kwas, B.A.
Communications, Henderson State
University
Ashdown, Arkansas
• Clerk, Miller, James, Miller &
Hornsby, LLP, Texarkana, TX
• ATLA: Student Chapter of
the American Trial Lawyers
Association
• Office of the Secretary of State
• Judicial Extern, Judge John F.
Miller Jr., Bowie County, TX
Kao Vang Lee, B.A. English/
Communications, University
California-Davis
Springdale, Arkansas
Stephanie Linam, B.A. Classical
Studies/English, University of Arkansas
Hamburg, Arkansas
Anderson Lunsford, B.A.
Philosophy, Washington and Lee
University
Lexington, Virginia
Reed Luthanen, B.A. Political
Science, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

JD Program in Law
Nichole Marie Manning, B.A.
Psychology, Winona State University
Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Clerk, Rogers City Attorney
• Law School Mentor Program
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
• Phi Delta Phi
Melanie A. McCorkle, B.S. Legal
Studies and Conflict Resolution,
Brenau University
Texarkana, Arkansas
• Clerk, Andrew, Merritt, Reilly &
Smith, Lawrenceville, GA
• Summer Associate, Whelchel &
Dunlap, Gainesville, GA
Laurence M. McCredy, B.A.
Political Science, Colgate University,
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Cameron C. McCree, B.A.
Economics, University of Arkansas
Camden, Arkansas
• Managing Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Judicial Extern, Judge Michael
Mashburn
• Academic Committee Chairman,
Black Law Student Association
• Law School Mentor Program
• Friday, Eldredge, & Clark;
Wright, Lindsey & Jennings;
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates
& Woodyard; and Quattlebaum,
Grooms, Tull & Burrow
David McDaniel, B.S.,B.A.
Accounting, University of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Arkansas Law Review
• Dean’s List
Joshua David McFadden, B.S.,
M.B.A. Business Administration, John
Brown University
Torrance, California
• Associate Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Quarterfinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• Phi Delta Phi
• Clerk, Wright, Lindsey &
Jennings, LLP; Conner &
Winters, LLP; Mitchell, Williams,
Selig, Gates & Woodyard, PLLC;
and Kutak & Rock, LLP
• Federalist Society
Cline McKnight, B.A. Economics,
Wheaton College
Rogers, Arkansas
Charles H. McLemore, Jr., B.A.
Psychology, Arkansas Tech University
Sherwood, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• American Bar Association
Student Division
Andrea L. Medlock, B.A. English,
Mercer University
Albany, Georgia
• Judicial Extern, Benton Count
Circuit Court Xollie Duncan
• Law Clerk, Benton County
Attorney’s Office, Prosecutor’s
Office
• Law Clerk, Lambert Law Firm,
LTD
• Secretary, Black Law Student
Association, 2005-06
Joshua Meister, B.A. Business
Management, Oklahoma State
University
Seiling, Oklahoma
• Master of the Exchequer, Delta
Theta Phi
• Judicial Extern, Judge Jay Finch
• Clerk, McCracken Law Firm
• Dean’s List
• Law School Mentor Program
Kurt J. Meredith, B.A. Spanish,
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Delta Theta Phi
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Pettus, Pettus, & McGuire,
PA
• Clerk, Gill, Elrod, Ragon, Owen,
& Sherman, PA
• Clerk, Arkansas Attorney General
Matthew Newton Miller, B.S.,
M.S. Biology, Southwest Missouri State
University
Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Note & Comment Editor,
Arkansas Law Review
• Co-President, Environmental Law
Society
• Clerk, Perkins & Trotter, PLLC
• Clerk, Norman, Wohlgemuth,
Chandler & Dowdell
• Sidney Davis Jr. Scholarship
Keisha E. Mims, B.S. Sports and
Recreation Management, Temple
University
Washington, D.C.
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Simeone & Miller,
Washington, D.C.
• Secretary, Delta Theta Phi
• Black Law Student Association
• Secretary, Asian Pacific American
Law Student Association
JD Program in Law
Shannon Mirus, B.S. Agricultural
Business, University of Arkansas
Weiner, Arkansas
• Articles Editor, Journal of Food
Law & Policy
• Dean’s List
• Phi Delta Phi
• American Agricultural Law
Association
Molly Gail Moroney, B.A.
Elementary Education, Hendrix College
Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Dean’s List
• Asian Pacific American Law
Student Association
• Clerk, Delta Theta Phi
• Clerk, Wal-Mart Realty
• Gill, Elrod, Ragon, Owen, &
Sherman, PA
Jimmy Morris, B.A. Criminal
Justice/Political Science, University of
Arkansas-Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas
Greg Myers, B.S. Special
Education/Disabilities/Handicapped,
Western Kentucky University
Prairie Grove, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Dillingham, Ritchie &
Petrie, Elkton, Kentucky
• Trial Competition
• Negotiation Competition
Efrem Baines Neely, Sr., B.S.
Business Administration, University of
Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Clerk, Nolan, Caddell &
Reynolds
• Dean’s List
• Coordinator, Trial Advocacy
• Negotiation Competition
• Client Counseling Competition
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JD Program in Law
Courtney A. Nelson, B.S.
Psychology, Evangel University
Springfield, Missouri
• Research Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Phi Delta Phi
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Friday, Eldredge & Clark;
Norman, Wohlgemuth, Chandler
& Dowdell
• Recipient, Arkansas Bar
Foundation Scholarship
Barrett Ann Nixon, B.A.
American History, Washington and Lee
University
Woodbine, Maryland
• Clerk, Washington County
Prosecutor’s Office
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Sweet Sixteen Trial Competition
• Best Oralist, Legal, Research &
Writing II, Professor Killenbeck’s
Class
Ronald B. Noble, B.A. Political
Science, Baylor University
Houston, Texas
Daniel M. Oberste, B.S.B.A.
Finance, University of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Extern, Judge Michael Mashburn
• Clerk, Smith & Moore, PLC
• Co-President, H.L.A. Hart
Society
• Research Assistant, Professor
Stephen Sheppard
• Arkansas Bar Association Student
Representative, Student Bar
Association
Brandon R. Oliver, B.A.
Government, University of Texas-
Austin
Texarkana, Texas
• Clerk, Hodson, Woods & Snively
• Dean’s List
P. Caleb Patterson, B.A. English,
University of Arkansas
Rogers, Arkansas
• Note and Comment Editor,
Arkansas Law Review
• National Criminal Procedure
Moot Court Competition
Traveling Team
• Co-Chair, Ben J. Altheimer
Spring Moot Court Competition
• Semi-Finalist, Ben J. Altheimer
Spring Moot Court Competition
• Dean’s List
Molly C. Pearson, B.A. Political
Science, Oklahoma State University
Omaha, Nebraska
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Wright & Baker, PA
• Judicial Extern, Judge Jimm Larry
Hendren, U.S. District Court for
the Western District of Arkansas
• American Bar Association
Student Member
• Delta Theta Phi
Paulette D. Pearson, B.A. English/
Political Science, Lyon College
Greers Ferry, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Jones, Jones & Doss, PLC
• Summer Research Analyst,
Republican National Committee
Headquarters
• Intern, Congressman John
Boozman
• Co-President, H.L.A. Hart
Society
Tyamona Rochelle Penister, B.S.
Psychology, Howard University
Warren, Arkansas
• Board of Advocates
• Dean’s List
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Treasurer, Black Law Student
Association, 2005-06
• Volunteer Ombudsman,
Northwest Area Agency on Aging
Melissa A. Perry, B.A. Political
Science, University of Arkansas
Hamburg, Arkansas
• Arkansas Law Review
• Quarterfinalist, Moot Court
Competition
• Dean’s List
Jim Phillips, B.A. History,
University of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Executive Editor, Arkansas Law
Review
• Judicial Extern, Judge Jimm Larry
Hendren
• H.L.A. Hart Society
• Dean’s List
Jonathan G. Pierce, B.S.
Agriculture, University of Arkansas
Anderson, Missouri
• Honors
• Associate Editor, Journal of Food
Law & Policy
Megen Chronister Prewitt,
B.S. Health Care Administration,
Northeastern State University
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Chronister, Fields, & Flake
• American Bar Association
Amber Prince, B.S.B.A.
Accounting, University of Arkansas
Malvern, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Jones & Harper
• Law School Mentor Program
• Benjamin J. Altheimer Moot
Court Competition
• Phi Delta Phi
JD Program in Law
Jesse J. Reyes II, B.A. International
Relations/European Studies, University
of Arkansas
Cove, Arkansas
• Extern, Judge Richard D. Taylor,
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Eastern & Western Districts of
Arkansas
• Clerk, Matthews, Campbell,
Rhoads, McClure, Thompson &
Fryauf, PA
• Associate Editor, Journal of Food
Law & Policy
Cephus Richard III, B.S.
Mechanical Engineering, University of
Memphis
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
• President, Media Entertainment
& Sports Law Association
• American Bar Association, State
Trademark Law Committee
• Dean’s List
• Candidate, State Representative
for Arkansas District 92
• National Black Law Student’s
Association Regional Executive
Board
Andrea Roberts, B.A. Psychology,
University of Texas-Austin
Gosnell, Arkansas
Carrie Lauren Roberts, B.A.
Computer Science, University of
Arkansas
Alma, Arkansas
• Clerk, Baker Law Firm
• Arkansas Trial Lawyers
Association
• Environmental Law Society

JD Program in Law
Elizabeth Ann Rowe, B.A. English,
Lyon College
Hot Springs, Arkansas
• Board of Advocates
• Quarterfinalist, Ben J. Altheimer
Moot Court Competition
• Clerk, Wright, Lindsey &
Jennings, LLP
• Clerk, Cross, Gunter,
Witherspoon & Galchus, PC
• Clerk, University of Arkansas
Office of General Counsel
George M. Rozzell, B.B.A.
Marketing, Texas Christian University
North Little Rock, Arkansas
• President, ATLA: Student
Chapter of the American Trial
Lawyers Association
• Clerk, Paul Suskie
• Prosecution Clinic
• W. P. Putnam Inns of Court
Robyn Noelle Ryan, B.A. English,
Hendrix College
Paragould, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Hixson & Daniels, PLLC
• Women’s Law Student
Association
• Law School Mentor Program
• HIP Mentor Program
Scott A. W. Saifi, B.S.B.A. Finance,
University of Arkansas
Lincoln, Arkansas
• Clerk, Wal-Mart Realty
• Dean’s List
Kelly Elizabeth Scott,
B.A. Agricultural Education,
Communications, and Technology,
University of Arkansas
Smackover, Arkansas
• Board of Advocates
• St. Petersburg Summer Law
Institute, Russia
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Moot Court International Law
Traveling Team
• Clerk, Bassett Law Firm
Tramaine Y. Scott, B.A. Finance/
Accounting, University of Houston
Dallas, Texas
• Journal of Islamic Law & Culture
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Keith, Miller, Butler &
Webb, PLLC
• Vice President, Black Law Student
Association
• Phi Delta Phi
Brian Simpson, B.A. Political
Science/Philosophy, University of
North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
• Note & Comment Editor, Journal
of Food Law & Policy
• Clerk, Matthews, Campbell,
Rhoads, McClure, Thompson &
Fryauf, PA
• Clerk, Friday, Eldredge & Clark,
LLP
• Clerk, Benton County Prosecutor
• Phi Delta Phi
Kendra D. Smith, B.S. Regulatory
Science, University of Arkansas-Pine
Bluff
Pine Bluff, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Judicial Extern, Circuit Judge
Mark Lindsay
• Black Law Student Association
Nathan Smith, B.A. Political
Science/History, Ouachita Baptist
University
Bentonville, Arkansas
Mary Claire Stainton, B.S.
Psychology, Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Board of Advocates
• Treasurer, Phi Delta Phi
• President, Environmental Law
Society
• Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s
Association
• Cambridge Summer Session,
England
Teaven J. Stamatis, B.A. History/
Social Science, Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas
• Arkansas Law Review
• Phi Delta Phi
• Summer Intern, Chief Justice
Hannah, 2005
• Clerk, Bassett Law Firm
Nathan Steel, B.A. Psychology,
University of Arkansas
Nashville, Arkansas
• Cambridge Summer Session,
England
• Extern, U.S. District Judge Bill
Wilson
• ATLA Executive Committee
Tiarra Nate Tannèr, B.S. Political
Science/English, Tougaloo College
Isola, Mississippi
• Black Law Student Association
• Moot Court Competition
• Mentor, Black Law Student
Association
• Women’s Law Student Association
Coleman Taylor, B.B.A.
Accounting, Baylor University
Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Clerk, Brenda Vassaur Taylor
• Student Bar Association
• Equal Justice Works
• Federalist Society
Daryl A. Taylor, B.S. History/
English, Texas A&M University-
Texarkana
White Hall, Arkansas
• National Quarterfinalist,
Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial
Traveling Team
• Judicial Clerkship, U.S. District
Court Judge Jimm Larry Hendren
• Rule XV Certified Student
Attorney,-Criminal Prosecution,
General Practice, Innocence
Project, and Federal Practice
Clinics
• Board of Advocates
• Clerk, Earnest E. Brown and Gene
McKissic
JD Program in Law
Amanda Thomas, B.A. Economics,
University of Central Arkansas
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Scott Tidwell, B.S.B.A. Marketing,
University of Arkansas
Rogers, Arkansas
Tracy Triplett, B.A. Criminal
Justice/Psychology, University of
Arkansas-Fort Smith
Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Dean’s List
• Judicial Extern, U.S. District
Judge Robert T. Dawson
• Clerk, 4 th Judicial Prosecutor’s
Office
• Clerk, Wal-Mart Realty
• Intern, Wal-Mart Real Estate
Kirsten Craig Dupps Tucker, B.A.
Drama/Political Science, Colorado
College
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
• Clerk, Bassett Law Firm
• President, Women’s Law Student
Association
• President, H.L.A. Hart Society
• Student Panel, Prospective
Faculty Members
• Dean’s List
Kyle T. Unser, B.S. Finance/
Accounting, University of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
• Quaterfinalist, Benjamin J.
Altheimer Moot Court
• William H. Sutton Barristers’
Union Trial Competition
• Dean’s List
• Clerk, Jones, Jones & Doss
• Clerk, Benton County
Prosecuting Attorney

Mariel E. Williams, B.A. Sociology,
Mercer University
Columbus, Georgia
• Dean’s List
• Judicial Extern, Judge Richard
Taylor
• President, Delta Theta Phi
• Black Law Student Association
• American Bar Association
Negotiation Competition
Angela L. Wilson, B.A., M.A.
Journalism, University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Legal Intern, The Coca-Cola
Company, 2006
• Board of Advocates
• Vice Dean, Delta Theta Phi
• Clerk, Lisle Law Firm
• Study Abroad, Cape Town, South
Africa
Ralph “Win” Wilson III, B.S.
Chemical Engineering, University of
Arkansas
Osceola, Arkansas
• Journal of Food Law & Policy
• Judicial Extern, Judge Kim M.
Smith
• Clerk, Hope, Fuqua, & Campbell;
Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon &
Galchus, PC; Barrett & Deacon;
Kutak & Rock
• Treasurer, Environmental Law
Society
• Phi Alpha Delta
Douglas Wood, B.S. Accounting,
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
Mary Catherine Wood, B.S. Social
Work, Union University
Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Clerk, Mitchell, Williams, Selig,
Gates & Woodyard, PLLC;
Warner, Smith & Harris, PLC
• Phi Delta Phi
• Student Bar Association, 3L
Representative
• Judicial Extern, Judge Mary Ann
Gunn
• Dean’s List
Tiffinni A. Young, B.A. Political
Science, Florida A&M University
Dallas, Texas
• Intern, First American
Corporation, Westlake, Texas
• J. L. Turner Legal Association
Scholar
• Vice President, Media,
Entertainment and Sports Law
Association
• American Bar Association, Lt.
Governor of Diversity, 10th
Circuit
• Christian Legal Society
Correction
The editor apologizes for the following information that
was omitted from the 2005-06 graduating class:
Steve D. Schrantz. B.S.
Computer Science, University of
Notre Dame,
Jonesboro, Arkansas
• Member, Arkansas Law Review
• Member, Board of Advocates
• Vice President, Student Bar
Assoc.
• Member, Inns of Court
• Dean’s List
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