Robert H. Dudley
Robert Hamilton Dudley (November 18, 1933 – April 1, 2023) was an American judge who was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1981 to 1996.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Dudley was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on November 18, 1933.[1][2] He attended Arkansas State College for a year, and worked in the United States Senate stationery office while attending George Washington University for a time. He received a his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1958. Dudley engaged in the private practice of law until 1964, when he was elected as a prosecuting attorney. He was elected to a chancery court seat in 1970, and then to the state supreme court in 1980.[1][2] Dudley retired from the court in 1996.[2]
Dudley married twice, first to Sally Wentzel of New York, with whom he had four children before their divorce in 1985, and then to Mary Lynn Schwarz, in 1991.[1] He died on April 1, 2023, at the age of 89.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Robert Hamilton (Bob) Dudley (1933–)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
- ^ a b c Arkansas Courts, A Self-Guided Tour of Justice Building Portraits (2016), p. 5.
- ^ "Robert Hamilton (Bob) Dudley (1933–2023)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
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