Ken Bridges

Jan 8, 2025 | news-journal.com | Ken Bridges |Ken Bridges

George Rose Smith was praised as “an example of what a judge ought to be” by one legal scholar. In his 37 years on the Arkansas Supreme Court, he never failed to make an impact or earn the respect of his peers. As a judge, writer, and prankster, Smith certainly had one of the most interesting lives of any state supreme court justice. Smith was born into a distinguished Arkansas family in Little Rock in 1911. His father was a noted Presbyterian minister.