Women's History Month: First Woman on Arkansas Supreme Court
Elsijane Trimble in 1937.
Elsijane Trimble Roy was Arkansas' first woman circuit judge and the first woman on the Arkansas Supreme Court. Trimble was born in 1916 in Lonoke County, Arkansas, and was the daughter of Judge Thomas Clark Trimble III and Elsie Walls.
Trimble attended the U of A for her undergraduate studies and law school. She graduated from the University School of Law in 1939. After serving in her own legal practice and as federal district court judge, she was appointed to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1975 by Gov. David Pryor.
Learn more about Elsijane Trimble Roy at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas or via the U of A Portraits of Progress.
This note was produced by the Chancellor's Commission on Women as part of Women's History Month.
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