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# SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS

IN RE RETIREMENT OF

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE PA UL E.

DANIELSON Opinion Delivered: 

# December 1 5 , 2016

PER CURIAM

Upon his retirement from the Supreme Court of Arkansas after ten years of dedicated

service as associate justice, the court recognizes and expresses its appreciation to Justice Paul

E. Danielson.

Justice Danielson graduated with honors from Florida State University and served his

country for four years in the United States Air Force. He earned his law degree from the

University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, where he was a member of the

Arkansas Law Review and graduated with honors. He served as a law clerk to Arkansas

Supreme Court Justice Frank Holt, as a deputy prosecuting attorney in the Sixth and

Fifteenth Judicial District s, and as city attorney for the City of Booneville. He practiced

law for eighteen years and also taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School

of Law. Justice Danielson served twelve years as a circuit judge in the Fifteenth Judicial

Distric t and was named Outstanding Trial Judge for 2002

– 03 by the Arkansas Trial Lawyers

Association.

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2 Since joining this court in 2007, Justice Danielson has served our community and

the legal profession in a variety of ways, including as liaison to the Arkansas Continuing

Legal Education Board, the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct, the

Supreme Court Committee on Civil Practice, and the Supreme Court Committee on

Model Jury Instructions

– Civil. He has also served as chair of the Committee on the Pi lot

Program for Appellate Mediation as well as chair of the Arkansas Supreme Court Electronic

Filing Pilot Program, which implemented e

- filing at the state appellate level. He is a

member of the Arkansas Bar Foundation.

On behalf of the State of Arkansas , we thank Justice Danielson for his many

contributions to the justice system and the community.

______________________________ ______________________________ Chief Justice Howard W. Brill Justice Karen R. Baker

______________________________ ________ ______________________ Justice Courtney Hudson Goodson Justice Josephine Linker Hart

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