Members of the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday (Jan. 23) grilled each other in a three-and-a-half marathon meeting over the role of the Chief Justice and her administrative duties ...

Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker came under fire after standing by her decision to fire employees who were cooperating with an investigation against her.

The director of the Administrative Office of the Courts has asked the chief justice to stay away from his office and staff.

Baker appearance with panel reset. Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker was unable to make a planned appearance at Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee meeting on Tuesd ...

What happens when the Arkansas Supreme Court’s chief justice and most of the other justices disagree with each other about ...

Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker said she was in the Justice Building on Tuesday afternoon despite a request ...

Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker has been asked by the state court system’s chief administrator to stay out ...

The Arkansas Judicial Council, which represents the state’s court system, issued a resolution Friday morning recognizing the ...

Judge Klappenbach was first elected to the Arkansas Court of Appeals in 2016 and was reelected in 2020. Prior to serving on ...

Until then, now-retired Dan Kemp was the chief. One of the tasks of the Supreme Court chief justice is to appoint the chief of the intermediate court--the Court of Appeals.

At left, Arkansas Chief Justice Karen Baker in an undated courtesy photo. At right, the Arkansas state Supreme Court building in Little Rock is shown in an undated file photo.