Dean’s Advisory Council

The UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law has attained a high level of excellence, with successful graduates and a broad base of support throughout the legal and business community.  The Dean’s Advisory Council was created for the purpose of enhancing these relationships. Council members assist the Law School in five areas: Recruitment, Placement, Legislative Initiatives, Curriculum and Fundraising.

If you’re interested in possibly serving on this Advisory Council or would like to nominate someone to serve, contact the Assistant Dean for External Relations Wanda Hoover.

Members

Robyn Allmendinger, 2002
Rose Law Firm, Managing Member

Robyn has practiced with Rose Law Firm since she graduated from law school in 2002. She was named the first female Managing Member of the firm in 2018. In addition to serving in such role, Robyn maintains an active practice in the areas of real estate, corporate and securities, commercial financing and mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive experience in representing individuals and businesses in the purchase and sale of real estate, advising businesses in the acquisition and sale of businesses, representing clients in complex asset and real-estate based financing transactions, and serving as local counsel to out-of-state lenders with transactions in Arkansas. She is recognized as a leading lawyer annually in various publications.

Richard Bell, 1981
Bell & Company, P.A.

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After working five years for other accounting firms and serving as controller for a property management company, Richard developed a passion for helping others achieve their financial goals and decided to establish Bell & Company in 1982, with his wife, Lee. By doing so, Richard knew he could provide professional accounting and financial services that were delivered with competency, proficiency, timeliness, and reasonable fees.  Richard’s areas of concentration are small business consulting and tax. He has extensive experience in the transportation industry, having written numerous articles for industry trade publications. He also has taught courses and given presentations to professionals in other major industries. In 2017, Bowen honored him as the Outstanding Alumnus in Public Service.

Timothy W. Grooms, 1984
Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull, P.L.L.C., Managing Member

Mr. Grooms is a founding member of Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull, PLLC. He represents banks, health care managers, real estate developers, real estate brokers, and other clients in a variety of transactional matters. Mr. Grooms has substantial experience in real estate and general commercial lending transactions and has been frequently involved in matters of eminent domain. He has negotiated hundreds of retail, office and commercial space leases on behalf of major national retailers and numerous developers, landlords and tenants throughout Arkansas and the Mid-South. As counsel to lenders and developers, Mr. Grooms has experience with Low Income Tax Credit, New Markets Tax Credit, and Historic Tax Credit Transactions.

Judge Rita W. Gruber, 1979
Judge, Arkansas Court of Appeals

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Judge Rita W. Gruber was elected to the Arkansas Court of Appeals on May 20, 2008. Judge Gruber received both her undergraduate degree and her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. She completed eighteen years as a Circuit Judge for Arkansas’ Sixth Judicial District. While serving on the trial bench, she helped establish a Volunteer Probation Officer program to work with first time juvenile offenders. She also established a specialized teen parenting program, a truancy alternative school and helped plan the CSTP juvenile boot camp at Camp Robinson. Before her election as Circuit Judge she served as interim Pulaski County Judge and had a ten-year law practice in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Judge Gruber has worked closely with the Bowen School of Law developing mediation programming, particularly for juvenile cases.

Mark Hayes, 1986
Arkansas Municipal League, Executive Director

Mark Hayes has been with the Arkansas Municipal League since 1989 previously served as the League’s General Counsel. He also served the City of Little Rock as an Assistant City Attorney and Municipal Judge.  Mr. Hayes received his bachelor’s degree from Arkansas State University before attending the Bowen School of Law. He is a member of the American, Arkansas, and Pulaski County Bar Associations.  Mr. Hayes was named Outstanding League Counsel by the International Municipal Lawyer’s Association in 2012 and is the author or contributing author to many league publications. Mark is married to Alison Offutt Hayes who is also a practicing attorney in the electric industry.

Jason Hendren, 1997
Hall Booth Smith, P.C., Partner

Jason Hendren is a Partner with Hall Booth Smith, P.C. He represents a wide variety of medical professionals, hospital companies, and facilities throughout Arkansas. Prior to joining Hall Booth Smith, P.C., he practiced law for many years as a partner at Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, LLP and Friday, Eldredge & Clark LLP. In 2013, he served as President of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel and received an “Exceptional Performance Citation” from the Defense Research Institute (DRI) for his service. He is a recipient of the Arkansas Bar Foundation Excellence in Legal Writing Award and a former adjunct professor at the Bowen School of Law. Hendren received gubernatorial appointments to serve as a Special Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2017 and 2019. In 2019, he received the Outstanding Defense Attorney Award from the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel. He received a gubernatorial appointment to the Arkansas History Commission in 2017, and was elected Chairman in 2018 and 2019. Hendren also currently serves on the DRI Board of Directors and as a member of the Bentonville Public Schools Foundation Board of Directors. Hendren is a Barrister of the W. B. Putman American Inn of Court and (Sustaining) Fellow of the Arkansas Bar Foundation.  He is a past president of the Arkansas Association of Defense Counsel and of the Arkansas Bar Foundation.

Justice Annabelle Imber Tuck
Retired

Justice Annabelle Imber TuckJustice Annabelle Imber Tuck graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law (now UALR William H. Bowen School of Law) in 1977. She practiced law in Little Rock, eventually becoming a partner in the Wright, Lindsey & Jennings law firm. In 1997, Justice Tuck became the first woman elected to the Supreme Court of Arkansas. Justice Tuck retired from the Arkansas Supreme Court at the end of 2009. She serves currently as a Public Service Fellow/Jurist-in-Residence at the William H. Bowen School of law and continues to work for equal access to justice through the work of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission.

Larry Jegley, 1978
Retired

In 2022, Mr. Jegley retired after serving for 25 years as the Prosecuting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas. He is a sum laude graduate of UA Little Rock where he was a member of the Law Journal and Law Review. Prior to serving as the Prosecuting Attorney, Mr. Jegley served as the Chief Staff Attorney for the Arkansas Court of Appeals, legal advisor to the North Little Rock Police Department, staff attorney for the Arkansas Public Service Commission, and instructor of law and legal clinic supervisor for UA Little Rock.

The Honorable Dustin McDaniel, 1998
McDaniel Wolff, PLLC, Partner

Dustin McDaniel is a founding partner in the Little Rock law firm of McDaniel Wolff, PLLC. McDaniel’s practice focuses on administrative law, regulatory affairs, government relations, business litigation, and criminal law. McDaniel represents individuals and businesses ranging from healthcare to technology, as well as regulated industries such as tobacco and medical cannabis. Previously, he opened the firm McDaniel, Richardson & Calhoun, PLLC, which has since merged with other firms to create McDaniel Wolff, PLLC. McDaniel served from 2007-2015 as Arkansas’s 55th Attorney General. From 2005-2007, McDaniel served in the Arkansas House of Representatives, serving on the House Public Health, Welfare, and Labor Committee and as Co-Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Health Insurance and Prescription Drugs. In 2019, Bowen honored him as the inaugural Distinguished Alumnus.

Brian Reddick, 1993
Reddick Moss, Partner

Brian D. Reddick is a partner at Reddick Moss in Little Rock. He is recognized as one of the top lawyers in America. Over the course of his 25 year career, Mr. Reddick has received record-setting jury verdicts in multiple states, including over $100 million in courtroom verdicts and an excess of a half billion dollars in settlements.  After graduating law school, Mr. Reddick worked for the District Attorney’s office in Little Rock, where he prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases, including many in the domestic violence and sexual assault division (DVSA).   During his time as a prosecutor, Mr. Reddick tried dozens of jury trials – and completed his tenure undefeated. Brian Reddick is a founding principal in Reddick Moss a national personal injury law firm.

Samuel Reeves, 1989
Retired

Samuel Reeves recently retired after a successful legal career. Prior to retirement, he served as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Walmart International. Sam had been a member of Walmart’s in-house legal team since 2002, when he joined the company as a Senior Division Counsel in the Tort section of the Legal Department’s Litigation Division. In his previous roles, Sam was Vice-President, General Counsel- Employment Practices, and Vice-President, General Counsel- Corporate Affairs and Government Relations. Prior to joining Walmart, Sam clerked for Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Tom Glaze and then practiced law in Bentonville, Arkansas for eleven years. He earned his J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law.

Andrew M. Taylor, 2005
Taylor & Taylor Law Firm, P.A. , Partner

web_taylorAndy Taylor is a Partner at Taylor & Taylor Law Firm, P.A.  His practice focuses on Personal Injury Litigation, Appellate Advocacy, Real Estate Litigation, Business Litigation, Collections Litigation, and Contract Disputes. Andy graduated summa cum laude from Ouachita Baptist University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and with minors in Mathematics and Mass Communications. In 2005, Andy graduated first in his class from the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law with high honors.  While there, he was a member of the Moot Court Board, the UALR Law Review, and the Honor Council.  After graduation, Andy practiced as Real Estate Counsel for Dillard’s, Inc., and then returned to the law school to serve as the Assistant Dean for Academic Support.  In 2009, Andy entered into private practice and then co-founded Taylor & Taylor Law Firm, P.A. in 2010 with his wife Tasha.

Danyelle Walker, 1995
Law Office of Danyelle Walker, P.L.L.C.

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Danyelle Walker has practiced exclusively in consumer bankruptcy area for approximately 17 years.  Prior to entering private practice, she was a law clerk for former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Andree Layton Roaf.  She is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association where she serves on the Bar Associations’ Board of Governors.  Ms. Walker was appointed to serve as a Special Justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court by Governor Mike Beebe.  She currently serves on the Supreme Court’s Professional Conduct Committee, is a member of the Pulaski County Bar Association and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.  Ms. Walker is on the UALR Board of Visitors, VOCALS Board of Directors, Our House Board, the Access to Justice Foundation Board of Directors, an appointee to the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission. She was the 2008 Arkansas Pro Bono Partnership Attorney of the Year and was awarded the Arkansas Bar Association’s Equal Justice Distinguished Service Award that same year.  More recently, she was voted VOCALS 2012 Attorney of the Year.  In 2014, Bowen honored her as the Outstanding Alumna in Public Service.  She has done numerous continuing legal education seminars for both the Arkansas Bar Association and the Debtor/Creditor Bar.  Ms. Walker received a B.S. degree in Accounting, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff in 1992 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law in 1995.