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- ↑ Dumas, Ernest (March 19, 2019). "Annabelle Davis Clinton Imber Tuck". Encyclopedia of Arkansas . Little Rock: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies at the Central Arkansas Library System . Retrieved November 13, 2022.
- ↑ http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/trial-procedure-judges/12921058-1.html [ dead link ]
- ↑ "Arkansas Supreme Court bids farewell to Commissioner Justice Annabelle Clinton Imber | Arkansas Access to Justice Commission". Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
