Circuit Clerks tour state Justice Building

Circuit Clerks tour state Supreme Court building

The Arkansas Circuit Clerks Association held its fall continuing education meeting Oct. 14-16, 2015, in Little Rock. In addition to sessions on topics such as juvenile expungements and record retention, the circuit clerks toured the Arkansas Justice Building. New association officers received red-carpet treatment from state Supreme Court Associate Justice Courtney Hudson Goodson, who administered the oath of office in the courtroom.

Above: Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Courtney Hudson Goodson (middle) swore in the new officers: District 1 Director Rhonda Sullivan, Cross County; Secretary Mayme Brown, Hot Spring County; District 3 Director Sharon Barnett, Yell County; District 3 Director Brenda DeShields, Benton County; District 2 Director Vickie Stell, Ashley County; 2nd Vice President Sharon Blount Baker, Crawford County; President Alice Smith, Monroe County; 1st Vice President Martha Jo Smith, Clark County; Treasurer Mary Ann Wilkinson, Lee County; AAC Board Member Debbie Wise, Randolph County; AAC Board Member Andrea Billingsley, Little River County; Historian Alicia Nowotny, Johnson County; District 2 Director Josephine Griffin, Chicot County; District 4 Director Jeanne Pike, Garland County; District 1 Director Canda Reese, Baxter County. Not pictured is District 4 Director Mary Pankey, Miller County.

Opposite Page, Bottom: Lafayette County Circuit Clerk Valarie Clark looks at a display about the Magna Carta.

Top Left: Victor Richardson, public education coordinator for the Administrative Office of the Courts, leads a tour of the Justice Building.

Top Right: Faulkner County Circuit Clerk Rhonda Wharton, the outgoing president of the Circuit Clerks Association, and Crawford County Circuit Clerk Sharon Blount Baker take a selfie in the courtroom.

Middle: Jessie Burchfield, a William H. Bowen School of Law professor and director of the law library, discusses Arkansans’ access to justice.

Right: New association president, Monroe County Circuit Clerk Alice Smith, accepts a tiara gifted to her by the outgoing association president.

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