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Jack Wilson Holt Jr. (born May 18, 1929) was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1969 to 1983, and chief justice from 1985 to 1995.[1]
Born in Harrison, Arkansas.[2]
Holt graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1952. He spent three years serving in the U.S. Air Force. In 1955, Holt became a Deputy Prosecutor for the Sixth Judicial Circuit until becoming Chief Assistant Attorney General in 1960. Holt was appointed to be Attorney General in 1962. In 1963, he went into private practice in Little Rock, Arkansas. Holt was elected to be Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1984 where he served until he retired in 1995. After leaving the Court, he successfully campaigned for Amendment 80 to the Arkansas Constitution, passed in 2000, which reformed and reorganized Arkansas's judicial system into its modern form.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "TITLE". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
- ^ a b Arkansas Courts, A Self-Guided Tour of Justice Building Portraits (2016), p. 15.
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