succeeded birth_place office preceded birth_date term_start residence article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
billy roy wilson hot springs garland county arkansas , usa judge eastern district of arkansas of the united states district court for the gordon e. young 3 november 1923 august 6 , 1970 little rock , pulaski county , arkansas garnett thomas eisele
 august 1 , 1991 garnett thomas eisele attorney washington university in st. louis
garnett thomas eisele

garnett thomas eisele -lrb- born november 3 , 1923 -rrb- is a united states district judge for the eastern district of arkansas .
born in hot springs , arkansas , eisele had attended several republican national conventions with his grandfather , martin eisele .
eisele was a private in the united states army during world war ii from 1942 to 1946 .
in 1947 he procured a a.b. from washington university in st. louis , missouri .
he then obtained both ll.b .
and ll.m .
degrees in 1950 and 1951 , respectively , from harvard law school in cambridge , massachusetts .
from 1952 to 1961 eisele was in the u.s. naval reserve .
he was in private practice in hot springs from 1951 to 1953 .
he was an assistant united states attorney in little rock from 1953 to 1955 .
after he was not nominated for u.s. attorney , eisele returned to private practice in little rock from 1956 to 1970 .
in the early 1960s eisele supported winthrop rockefeller 's attempt to revive the arkansas republican party .
at the time rockefeller was engaged in an intraparty rivalry with state chairman william l. spicer of fort smith , the owner of a chain of drive-in theaters .
from 1966 to 1969 eisele was the legal advisor to rockefeller , who was elected governor in 1966 and 1968 .
eisele was rockefeller 's choice for the united states district court for the eastern district of arkansas , a position vacated in 1969 by gordon e. young .
two other arkansas republicans had expressed interest in the judgeship , odell pollard of searcy in white county , then the state republican chairman and the choice of former u.s. senate nominee and later arkansas state party chairman charles t. bernard , and state circuit judge henry m. britt of hot springs , the 1960 republican gubernatorial nominee against orval e. faubus .
on january 23 , 1970 eisele was nominated by president richard m. nixon .
he was confirmed by the united states senate on august 5 , 1970 .
he received his commission the following day .
he served as chief judge from 1975 to 1991 , having assumed senior status on august 1 , 1991 .
