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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a United States federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the following United States district courts:
Circuit courts are court systems in several common law jurisdictions. It may refer to:
Raymond W. Gruender is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Lavenski R. Smith is an American lawyer who has served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2017. He was appointed to the court in 2002 by President George W. Bush. He previously served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1999 to 2000.
Arkansas's 2006 state elections were held November 7,2006. Primaries were held May 23 and runoffs,if necessary,were held June 13. Arkansas elected seven constitutional officers,17 of 35 state senate seats,all 100 house seats and 28 district prosecuting attorneys,and voted on one constitutional amendment and one referred question. Non-partisan judicial elections were held the same day as the party primaries for four Supreme Court justices,four appeals circuit court judges,and eight district court judges.
The University of Arkansas School of Law is the law school of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville,Arkansas,a state university. It has around 445 students enrolled in its Juris Doctor (J.D.) and Master of Law (LL.M) programs and is home to the nation's first LL.M in agricultural and food law program. The School of Law is one of two law schools in the state of Arkansas;the other is the William H. Bowen School of Law.
Elsijane Trimble Roy was an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Annabelle Davis Clinton Imber Tuck is an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court for thirteen years. The first woman elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court,Imber is best known for a case she handled while she was a chancery judge in the 6th Judicial District.
The University of Mississippi School of Law,also known as Ole Miss Law,is an ABA-accredited law school located on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford,Mississippi. The School of Law offers the only dedicated aerospace law curriculum in the United States from an ABA-accredited school. The University of Mississippi School of Law is also the only school in the United States,and one of only a handful in the world,to offer a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Air and Space Law.
James Robert Hannah was an American jurist. After attending college and law school at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville,Hannah opened a private law practice in Searcy. He practiced law for a decade,entering public service in part-time city attorney and city judge roles in small towns across the Arkansas Grand Prairie. He won election as Chancery Judge of the 17th District in 1979,and held the position until 1999,when he was nominated to the Arkansas Supreme Court. He served as an associate justice for four years,becoming chief justice in 2005. Hannah held the top position for ten years,until resigning in 2015.
Courtney Rae Hudson is an American lawyer who has served an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. She was elected to the position in 2010.
Karen Renee Baker is an American lawyer who has served an associate justice for Position 6 of the Arkansas Supreme Court. Baker was first elected to the state Supreme Court in 2010. Prior to serving as justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court,Baker served as associate judge for the Arkansas Court of Appeals from 2001 to 2010,as 20th Judicial District Circuit/Chancery Judge from 1997 to 2000,and as 20th Judicial District Circuit/Chancery/Juvenile Judge from 1995 to 1996. She was also the public defender for Van Buren and Searcy counties from 1989 to 1995. Baker earned her undergraduate degree from Arkansas Tech University in 1983,and her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School in 1987.
Paul C. Wilson is an American lawyer who has served as a judge of the Missouri Supreme Court. He was appointed in 2012,and was formerly a circuit judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit.
John Dan Kemp Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court since 2017.
Rhonda K. Wood is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court since 2015. She previously served as a judge on the Arkansas Court of Appeals from 2013 to 2014,and as a trial court judge for the Arkansas 20th Judicial Circuit from 2007 to 2012.
Blueford v. Arkansas,566 U.S. 599 (2012),was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that clarified the limits of the Double Jeopardy Clause. The Supreme Court held that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not bar retrial of counts that a jury had previously unanimously voted to acquit on,when a mistrial is declared after the jury deadlocked on a lesser included offense.
Richard Sheppard Arnold was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and then a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Morris Sheppard Arnold is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Barbara Womack Webb is an American judge from Arkansas who is an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
