Published 03/06/2023 3:41:30 p.m.

Arkansas legal legend Jack Holt Jr. dies at age 93

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Jack Holt Jr. died Sunday at his home off Highway 10 west of Little Rock. Holt was elected chief justice in 1984, defeating former Justice James D. Johnson. Holt helped devise and campaigned for a constitutional amendment in 2000 that reformed and reorganized trial and appellate courts, prohibiting partisanship.

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Arkansas legal legend Jack Holt Jr. dies at age 93

Jack Holt Jr., the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court for ten years who along with three other lawyers brought the landmark lawsuits against the Arkansas penitentiary that caused the entire state prison system to be declared unconstitutional, died Sunday at his home off Highway 10 west of Little Rock. He was 93. Holt, who came from a family of lawyers and judges, including two other Supreme Court justices, was elected chief justice in 1…

03/06/2023 3:41:30 p.m.

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