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ted to the Arkansas bar after having made the highest score on the bar examination given in July of that year. In 1961 he was admitted to the har of the District of Columhia. After a year's clerkship with Mr. Justice Brennan of the Supreme Court of the United States, he practiced for a time with the Washington firm of Covington and Burling before returning to Texarkana to join the family firm in 1964. He was elected a delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1969-70 and for a number of years worked for Governor and later Senator Dale Bumpers. In 1978 he was appointed a United States district judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas and in 1980 he was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit where he presently sits. Judge Arnold's wile, Kay Kelley Arnold, a graduate of the University of Arkansas and the UALR Law School. was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1981. Morris Sheppard Arnold, his brother, was born in 1941. He was graduated from Phillips Exe-

ter Academy in 1959, attended Yale College, and was graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1965 and the University of Arkansas Law School in 1968 where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Arkansas Law Review and first in his graduating class. He was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1968. In 1969 he received an LL.M. and in 1971 an S.J.D.. both from Harvard Law School where he was a Teaching Fellow in Law in 1969. He has taught law at a number of American universities and in 1978 was a member of the Law Faculty of Cambridge University. He is presently a professor of Law and History at the University of Pennsylvania where he served as vice president of the University from 1979 to 1981. In 1982 he was elected state chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party and the same year was appointed special chief justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Though this list is long, it has not exhausted the list of Arkansas Arnold lawyers. John H. Arnold, William Hendrick Arnold's first

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cousin, was born in 1864, read law in the Prescott firm of Smoote & McRae, and was admitted to the bar of Arkansas in 1884. He later moved to Washington, Arkansas, where he became mayor and a member of the firm of Williams and Williams. He died in 1925. Finally, W.H. (Dub) Arnold prosecuting attorney in Arkadelphia, is a distant cousin. The Arnolds have been practicing law in southwest Arkansas for one hundred and two years. With eleven of them having been admitted to the Arkansas bar, the Arnolds have one of the longest and fullest family legal traditions in the state. 0 NOTES 1.

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(1935). Id. at 171. Id. at IB4. Id. at 173. Id. at 173-74. Id. at ISS.

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