Don R. Elliott Jr.

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EDUCATION & COURT ADMISSIONS

Mr. Elliott was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1978. He is also admitted to practice before U.S. District Courts of Arkansas, 8^th Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. Supreme Court. He received his education from Ouachita Baptist University (B.A., cum laude, 1975) where he was a four-year letterman on the Tiger football team; and University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville (J.D., 1978). He was the research editor of the Arkansas Law Review for 1978. He also became a certified public accountant (currently inactive), Arkansas, 1980. Don Elliott also served in the Arkansas National Guard from 1975-1981 and attained the rank of captain.

LEADERSHIP, MEMBERSHIP & HONORS

He served as a special justice, Arkansas Supreme Court, 1994. He was also on the Arkansas Model Jury Instructions Committee-Civil in 2000-2006. He served as president of the Washington County Bar Association in 1991-1992 and served in the Arkansas Bar Association House of Delegates 1987-1990; Executive Council, 1990-1991, and Board of Governors 2014-2016.

Don Elliott was president of the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Associates in 2013-2014. He also served on the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association Board of Governors in 1993-1996; 2000-2001 and 2008-2013. He was voted Outstanding Trial Lawyer by the Arkansas Trial Lawyer Association for 2010. He was also served on the APITLA – Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America from 2011-2021.

He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA); American Inns of Court (Emeritus; President, 2004-2005). Fellow: Arkansas Bar Foundation (Board of Directors, 2005-2011). Mr. Elliott was named a Mid-South Super Lawyer for 2008-2024. He also teaches as an adjunct law instructor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Law School 2013-2018 on the subject of depositions.

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