Billy Roy Wilson | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas | |
Assumed office October 1, 2008 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas | |
In office October 1,1993 –October 1,2008 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Garnett Thomas Eisele |
Succeeded by | D. Price Marshall Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | William Roy Wilson Jr. December 18,1939 Little Rock,Arkansas,U.S. |
Education | Hendrix College (BA) Vanderbilt University (JD) |
Billy Roy Wilson (born William Roy Wilson Jr. on December 18,1939) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Born in Little Rock,Arkansas,Wilson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hendrix College in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1965. He was in private practice in Texarkana,Arkansas from 1965 to 1966. He was a deputy prosecuting attorney of Miller County,Arkansas from 1965 to 1966. He was in the United States Navy as a lieutenant (junior grade) from 1966 to 1969. He was in private practice in Little Rock,Arkansas from 1969 to 1993. [1] He briefly served as acting Arkansas Attorney General in the mid-1970s.
Wilson is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Wilson was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 6,1993,to a seat vacated by G. Thomas Eisele. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 30,1993,and received his commission on October 1,1993. He assumed senior status on October 1,2008. [2]
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