First Woman Sworn In As Chief Justice
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Betty Dickey will be in office only about a
year but she`ll always be the first woman to have served as
Arkansas chief justice.
Dickey was sworn in yesterday. She says that she wants to be a
role model and that she should inspire young mothers to have faith
in the value of education and hard work.
The 63-year-old Dickey replaces former Chief Justice W-H "Dub"
Arnold, who retired on January first 1 with five years left in his
term. Dickey, a former prosecutor, will serve on the state Supreme
Court through the November election, when someone else will be
elected to complete the last four years of Arnold`s term. She is
ineligible to run for the remainder of his court term.
Justice Tom Glaze swore in Dickey in a packed state Supreme
Court chamber. Her two sons looked on and her daughter, Rachel
Dickey, held the Bible during the oath.
