Arkansas Appeals Court Boundaries

The Arkansas Court of Appeals was created in 1978 by Amendment 58 to the Arkansas Constitution. In 1979, the Arkansas General Assembly passed Act 208 to establish the Arkansas Court of Appeals as authorized by the amendment and to provide for the selection of the first judges. Pursuant to Act 1812 of 2003, the State of Arkansas is divided into seven (7) districts for the election of judges to the Arkansas Court of Appeals, and the dates of electing the judges within each of these districts is established. The State of Arkansas is divided into the following seven (7) districts for the election of judges to the Arkansas Court of Appeals: (1) District 1 shall be composed of Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lonoke, Mississippi, Monroe, Poinsett, Prairie, White and Woodruff counties; (2) District 2 shall be composed of Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Marion, Newton, Pope, Randolph, Searcy, Sharp, Stone, and Van Buren counties; (3) District 3 shall be composed of Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson, Madison, and Washington counties; (4) District 4 shall be composed of Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Little River, Logan, Miller, Montgomery, Pike, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier, and Yell counties; (5) District 5 shall be composed of Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Drew, Grant, Lafayette, Lincoln, Nevada, Ouachita, and Union counties; (6) District 6 shall be composed of Pulaski, Perry and Saline counties; and (7) District 7 shall be composed of Arkansas, Chicot, Desha, Jefferson, Lee, Phillips, and St. Francis counties.

Data available online through GeoStor at http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov. The subject file represents the Appeals Court District boundaries for the State of Arkansas. Other geographic information contained in the files includes the attribute of the Appeals Court District number.

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