District Judge Dies
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
US District Judge Stephen Reasoner of
Little Rock, who served 16 years as a federal judge in the Eastern
District of Arkansas, has died.
Reasoner had a heart transplant May 17th and never fully
recovered. He died Saturday evening at Baptist Medical Center. His
wife Susan and son Brian were at his side. He was 60.
Reasoner was appointed by former President Reagan, and began
serving as a federal judge in April 1988. He succeeded William R.
Overton. For several years, Reasoner suffered from congestive heart
failure. And in September 2002, he announced he was certified
medically disabled and taking senior status.
Visitation will be tomorrow evening at Ruebel Funeral Home in
Little Rock. Funeral services will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday at
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Burial will be at the family gravesite
at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Dickinson, Texas.
