Lawyer in the Library: Judge Lawrence Dawson

  Retired Circuit Judge Lawrence E. Dawson will offer reflections on his remarkable 50 year career at noon on Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Jim Blair Commons of the Young Law Library. The presentation, part of the Lawyer in the Library Series, is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Judge Dawson is a 1948 graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law. For 10 years, he practiced law in Pine Bluff, Ark., as a solo practitioner. He then served 40 years as a Chancery and Probate Judge, with 34 of these years as Chancery Judge of the Eleventh Chancery Circuit of Arkansas, Second Division. His final six years of service were as Chancery Judge at Large for the entire state of Arkansas. He chronicled his time on the bench in his memoir, Fifty Years as a Judge.

Prior to becoming Chancellor, Judge Dawson served as U.S. Commissioner on appointment by U.S. District Judge Thomas C. Trimble. In addition, Judge Dawson served one term in the Arkansas House of Representatives.

Judge Dawson is a Trustee Emeritus of Stillman College, past president of the State Judicial Council, and a lifetime member of the Arkansas Bar Association and State Judicial Council. He has been honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Certificate of Award for Excellence in Community Service and with the Distinguished Golden Rider Alumni award from Southern Arkansas University.

Contact:

Andy Albertson, director of communications
School of Law
(479) 575-6111, aalbert@uark.edu