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This year the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law will celebrate 45 years since the Arkansas General Assembly enacted legislation making it the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. This also marks the law school’s 55th year as the night program of the University of Arkansas Law School.
Event co-chairs are Michelle Ator (’95), a partner at Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP, and The Honorable Dustin McDaniel (’98), a founding partner at McDaniel, Wolff & Benca, PLLC.
“It has been two years since the alumni have hosted an event to raise money for Bowen due to COVID-19. Since then, our faculty and administration had to reinvent legal education using virtual technology for everything from staff meetings to classes to clinics. We should all be extremely proud of the creative and unwavering dedication they demonstrated during this unprecedented time,” McDaniel said. “Our current graduates will never know what it was like to practice b
Clockwise from top left: Sherra Bennett, Nancy Leonhardt, Marci Robertson, Sherry Chambers
How does the rate of literacy impact Arkansas and how has the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the need for greater literacy both in children and adults.
In the latest
Issues That Matter forum, we ask our panelists about the state of literacy in the Natural State and what can be done to improve it.
Panelists include:
Nancy Leonhardt - Executive Director of the Adult Learning Alliance in Arkansas
Marci Robertson - Executive Director of Literacy Action of Central Arkansas
Sherry Chambers - K-12 Literacy Director of the Little Rock School District
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Nursing has launched the Professional Development Center (PDC) to provide continuing education opportunities for nursing students, healthcare professionals, and emergency response professionals.
The Blue & You Foundation for a Healthier Arkansas, which is funded by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, awarded the UA Little Rock School of Nursing a $68,357 grant in January 2020 that provided the seed money for the Professional Development Center.
“In 2019, Dr. Sloan Davidson took over the chair position for the school. She had a vision to offer continuing education to the nursing population after they graduated UA Little Rock,” said Dr. Anita Joyce Simmons, assistant professor of nursing and coordinator of the Professional Development Center.
Former GOP chairman running for lieutenant governor
Former GOP chairman running for Arkansas Lt. Governor By Region 8 Newsdesk | May 4, 2021 at 10:54 AM CDT - Updated May 4 at 6:48 PM
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - Former Republican Party of Arkansas Chairman Doyle Webb announced Tuesday his candidacy for the office of lieutenant governor.
After earning his Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, Webb became the first Republican justice of the peace and state senator elected in Saline County.
He served as chief of staff to former Lieutenant Governor Win Rockefeller in 2002.
Six years later, he was elected as chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas. He won re-election to that post five times, running unopposed.