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SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
Opinion Delivered January 15, 2015
IN RE ARKANSAS ACCESS
TO JUSTICE COMMISSION
PER CURIAM
In 2003, in response to a petition filed by the Arkansas Bar Association, the supreme
court established the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission. In re Ark. Bar Ass’n–Petition for
Creation of the Ark. Access to Justice Comm’n, 355 Ark. 709 (2003) (per curiam). Arkansas
IOLTA Foundation, Inc., and Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation, Inc., recently merged,
and the surviving corporation is Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation, Inc. See In re Petition
to Merge Ark. Access to Justice Found., Inc., 2013 Ark. 207 (per curiam). As a result of the
merger, the Chair of the Board of Directors of Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation, Inc.,
will replace the Director of Arkansas IOLTA Foundation as an ex-officio member of the
Arkansas Access to Justice Commission. Accordingly, we amend, effective immediately, the
Commission’s structure as set out below. Except for this amendment and clarification of the
district court membership, all other provisions remain unchanged.
STRUCTURE
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C. Membership.
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c. one state district court judge or local district court judge, and
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E. In addition to the voting members set out herein, the Director of the Center for
Arkansas Legal Services, the Director of Legal Aid of Arkansas, the Chair of the Board of
Directors of Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation, Inc., and representatives of legal clinics
at the state’s two law schools appointed by their respective deans shall serve as ex-officio
members of the Commission.
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