Brian G. Brooks is a solo practitioner who focuses on appellate practice and complex legal research, writing and advocacy for the plaintiff’s bar.  He is also counsel for the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association, amicus curiae counsel for the Tennessee Association for Justice.  His office is located near Pickles Gap, just between Conway and Greenbrier Arkansas.

Justice Robert P. Chamberlin of Hernando joined the Mississippi Supreme Court on Jan. 3, 2017.

Justice Chamberlin was born April 6, 1965. He graduated from Hernando High School in 1983. He attended Northwest Mississippi Junior College and graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. Bobby later received the Eastland Scholarship to attend Ole Miss law school and earned his law degree from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1990. Shortly after graduation from law school, he went to work for what was to become the Austin Law Firm in Hernando and later formed Chamberlin Nowak, P.C. in 2001. Bobby was in private law practice for 14 years, and served as attorney for the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors. He is a member of the American Inns of Court as well as a member of the Mississippi Bar Foundation.

Justice Chamberlin served as Municipal Court Judge for the City of Hernando from 1991 to 1999. He served as Municipal Prosecutor for the City of Horn Lake in 1992. He also served as a Special Master in Chancery Court.

Justice Chamberlin was elected to the Mississippi Senate in 1999, and served Senate District 1 of DeSoto County for five years. He was vice-chairman of the Universities and Colleges Committee from 2000 to 2003 as well as chairman of the Elections Committee in 2004. Bobby was also a member of the Judiciary B committee. He was selected as Legislator of the Year by the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Association in 2003. While serving in the Senate, he attended by invitation the National Security Seminar held at the United States Army War College.

Justice Chamberlin served for 12 years as a Circuit Judge of the 17th Circuit District. Then Gov. Haley Barbour appointed him to the 17th Circuit bench on Nov. 24, 2004. The district included DeSoto, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate and Yalobusha counties. In 2006 he co-founded the 17th Circuit Drug Court with then-Circuit Judge and future Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Ann Lamar. During this time, Bobby served as a presiding judge on the complaint tribunal for attorney discipline.  He has also previously served as chairman and vice chairman of the Conference of Circuit Judges.

Justice Chamberlin is a lifelong resident of north Mississippi and is married to the former Kim White. They have one son, William.

Michael Gans is a 1977 graduate of Washington University School of Law and worked more than forty years in Missouri and federal appellate courts, as a law clerk and administrative assistant to the chief judges of the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri and as chief deputy clerk and Clerk of Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. At the time of his retirement as Eighth Circuit Clerk in April 2024, Gans had served nearly thirty-three years in that position and was the longest-serving federal appellate clerk. In his time at the Eighth Circuit he served on numerous national judiciary committees, including serving as the chair of the appellate clerk’s committee and as a member of the Federal Appellate Rules Committee. Gans also served as an editor of the 8th Circuit Appellate Practice Manual through its first ten editions. Following his retirement from the Eighth Circuit, Gans joined the St. Louis law firm of Dowd Bennett, where he serves of counsel.

Judge Jonathan Kobes received his Bachelor of Arts from Dordt University and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.  He served as a judicial law clerk to Judge Roger L. Wollman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Kobes worked as a litigation attorney at the Central Intelligence Agency, an Assistant United States Attorney in Rapid City, South Dakota, and an associate at the Sioux Falls, South Dakota office of Murphy, Goldammer & Prendergast. Kobes has also worked as inhouse counsel at POET, LLC, Dupont Pioneer, and Raven Industries. 

Kobes served as Deputy Chief of Staff and General Counsel to U.S. Senator Mike Rounds. On June 11, 2018 President Trump nominated Kobes to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 11, 2018.

Judge Doris L. Pryor was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on December 9, 2022.

Honorable Doris L. Pryor was appointed to the position of United States Magistrate Judge on February 28, 2018, for the Southern District of Indiana. At the time of her appointment to the bench, Judge Pryor served as the National Security Chief for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana from September 2014 until mid-February 2018. In August 2006, she joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana. From August 2005 through August 2006, Judge Pryor served as a Deputy Public Defender in the State of Arkansas Public Defender’s Commission. She also has served as a federal law clerk, for Judge J. Leon Holmes in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (August 2004-August 2005), and for Chief Judge Lavenski Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (August 2003-August 2004).

Judge Pryor graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1999 from the University of Central Arkansas, where she majored in political science. She obtained her law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2003 and was admitted to the bar the same year. Judge Pryor has since been admitted to practice in numerous state and federal courts, including Indiana.

Judge Pryor has served as an adjunct professor at Robert H. McKinney School of Law and has lectured at Maurer School of Law for the past several years. She is a masters member of the McKinney-Shepard Indianapolis Inn of Court, the Indianapolis Bar Association, former Board President of Goodwill Education Initiatives and was a founding member of the Southern District of Indiana REACH Re-entry Court.

Presiding Judge Michele M. Christiansen Forster was appointed to the Utah Court of Appeals in June 2010 by Gov. Gary Herbert. Prior to her appointment, Judge Christiansen Forster had been serving as a Third District Court Judge since May 2007. Judge Christiansen Forster received her law degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1995. She then served as a judicial law clerk for one year for the Honorable Tena Campbell, United States District Court Judge for the District of Utah, following which she joined the Salt Lake law firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer. In March 1998, Judge Christiansen Forster joined the United States Attorney's Office, District of Utah, as an Assistant United States Attorney. In January 2005, she was appointed executive director of the Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice and in July of 2006, Judge Christiansen Forster became general counsel to Gov. Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. During her tenure in the Governor's Office, Judge Christiansen Forster co-chaired the Utah Methamphetamine Joint Task Force and chaired the Utah Sexual Violence Council. She served as a member of the Guardian Ad Litem Oversight Panel, the Utah Sentencing Commission Executive Committee, the Utah Substance Abuse and Anti-Violence Coordinating Council, the Governor's Violence Against Women and Families Cabinet Council, the Initiative on Utah Children in Foster Care, and the Access to Justice Council. Judge Christiansen Forster is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law, and currently serves as co-chair of the Utah State Bar's Pro Bono Commission, the Utah Supreme Court's Appellate Rules Committee, and on the Salt Lake County Bar Association Executive Committee. The judge is the past-president of the David K. Watkiss-Sutherland II Inn of Court, and previously served on the Executive Board of Women Lawyers of Utah, the Utah Judicial Council's Ethics Advisory Opinion Committee, and as the chair of the Utah Judicial Council's Commissioner Conduct Committee.

Judge Robert Gladwin is the nonpartisan District 3 Position 1 judge of the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Gladwin earned his B.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1978. and his J.D. from the University of Arkansas in 1981. 

From 1981 to 1984, Gladwin served as the deputy prosecuting attorney for Washington County, Arkansas. From 1984 to 1985, he worked as an attorney for the law firm of Rose & Gladwin in Fayetteville, and from 1985 to 1991 he was with the firm of Everett & Gladwin in Prairie Grove. Gladwin was a solo practitioner from 1991 to 2002. He became the circuit court magistrate for Washington County in 2002. He also served as district judge for Prairie Grove from 1986 to 2002 and city court judge in Lincoln, Arkansas from 1986 to 2000. He has served as a judge on the Arkansas Court of Appeals from 2002 to present. 

Eric Olson is a co-founder of Olson Grimsley, a national public-interest plaintiffs firm focused on high-stakes trials and appeals. Before co-founding Olson Grimsley, Eric served as the Solicitor General of Colorado for five years. Eric has tried cases in Woodruff County and Desha County, Arkansas and argued at the United States Supreme Court. Eric clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, D.C. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, and chair of the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, District Court Judge John Heyburn in Kentucky. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Member of the American Law Institute, and a board member of the Heyburn Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary.

Judge Jeffery S. Sutton is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.  He has served as Chair of the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, and Chair of the Supreme Court Fellows Commission.  He currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.  Since 1993, Chief Judge Sutton has been an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University College of Law, where he teaches seminars on State Constitutional Law, the United States Supreme Court, and Appellate Advocacy.  He also teaches a class on State Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.  Among other publications, he is the author of Who Decides? States as Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation and 51 Imperfect Solutions:  States and the Making of American Constitutional Law.  He is the co-author of a casebook, State Constitutional Law:  The Modern Experience, as well as The Law of Judicial Precedent.  He is also the co-editor of The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law.  In 2006, Chief Judge Sutton was elected to the American Law Institute, and in 2017 he was elected to its Council. 

Retired Chief Justice Howard Brill has been at the University of Arkansas School of Law since 1975. He is the first Vincent Foster Professor of Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility and teaches professional responsibility, remedies, civil procedure, and domestic relations. He teaches special topics courses on Baseball and the Law, as well as Arkansas Constitutional Law.

After graduating from Duke University, he taught English language and African literature as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sokoto, Northern Nigeria. Professor Brill earned his J.D. from the University of Florida Law School, where he was the editor-in-chief of the law review, and later earned an LL.M. from the University of Illinois.

In addition to practicing with a small firm in Rock Island, Ill., he has taught at the Universities of Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. In connection with the School of Law's summer programs, he has taught in Cambridge, England, and St. Petersburg, Russia. He has taught comparative Constitutional Law at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

From September 2015 to December 2016 Professor Brill served as the Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. He played a role in the adoption of changes to the Code of Judicial Conduct and the Rules of Professional Conduct. His opinions included language from Johnny Cash, William Butler Yeats, and Bob Dylan.

Kirsten Davis is a Professor of Law and the Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Generative Artificial Intelligence and Higher Education.  She is a graduate of The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and she earned a Ph.D. in Human Communication from the Arizona State University Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.  Prior to joining the faculty at Stetson, she was a federal judicial clerk, an attorney, and a faculty member at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

Dr. Davis’s work focuses on the intersection of legal communication and legal ethics.  Most recently, she has been studying the impact of generative artificial intelligence on legal communication. This past year, she has given talks on generative AI to law faculty, law students, administrators, lawyers, and judges.  She is leading a group of over 360 law professors who are exploring the impacts of Generative AI on legal writing education and practice.  Last year, she taught a course, Legal Writing with Generative AI, at Stetson.

 Dr. Davis has served on the board of directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute.   She is a past chair for the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and its Annual Meeting Program Committee. She is also a past Chair of the Florida Bar's Standing Commission on Professionalism and served on its Special Committee to Review Professionalism.  She currently serves as the Program Co-Chair for the AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education and on the Florida Bar Standing Committee on Technology.

This year, the AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education selected her for its Inaugural Technology Mentorship Award. The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center named her to its distinguished Women of Legal Tech list for 2024.

Judge Mark D. Pfeiffer was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, in May 2009, and served as the Chief Judge from 2016-18.  Judge Pfeiffer was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, and raised in Columbia, Missouri.  He graduated from Columbia Hickman High School in 1985, received his undergraduate degree from Westminster College in 1989, and his juris doctorate degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in 1991.  Judge Pfeiffer and his wife, Tracey, reside in Columbia, Missouri, where they raised two sons, Wilson and Brady.

 Judge Pfeiffer began his legal career in January of 1992 with the law firm of Farrington & Curtis in Springfield, Missouri.  In 1995, Judge Pfeiffer moved back to his home town of Columbia, Missouri, where he and his law partner of fourteen years, Wally Bley, formed the law firm of Bley & Pfeiffer, P.C.  At both law firms, Pfeiffer specialized as a trial and appellate attorney in civil litigation.

 Judge Pfeiffer is active in the Missouri Bar Association, Boone County Bar Association, and Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association.  He also serves as adjunct faculty at Westminster College, is a judicial fellow of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, President (2023-24) of the Council of Chief Judges of State Courts of Appeal, the Chair of the Missouri Appellate Court Education Committee, and is a member of The Crossing Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Justice Annabelle Imber Tuck’s contributions to the bench and bar began in 1977 when she graduated from UALR William H. Bowen School of Law. She practiced law in Little Rock, eventually becoming a partner in the Wright, Lindsey & Jennings law firm. In 1988, Justice Tuck was elected chancery judge for the Sixth Judicial District, where she served until 1996. It was during this time that Justice Tuck presided over the Lake View case and declared that the public-school financing system then in effect violated the equal protection and education provisions of the Arkansas Constitution. In 1997, Justice Tuck became the first woman elected to the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Tuck has served on several legal committees and boards, including the Continuing Legal Education Board of the Supreme Court, the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, and the Supreme Court Committee on Civil Practice.  She is also an active community advocate, having served on the Board of Directors of many non-profit organizations.  In 1998, she was recognized by Arkansas Business magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in Arkansas. 

Justice Tuck retired from the Arkansas Supreme Court at the end of 2009.  She serves currently as a Public Service Fellow/Jurist-in-Residence at the Bowen School of law and continues to work for equal access to justice through the work of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission. Justice Tuck is a member of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement’s Advisory Board and serves as an officer on the boards of Congregation B’nai Israel, The Interfaith Center, and The Mussar Institute, Inc. Justice Tuck was inducted into the Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in August 2018.