Arkansas Access to Justice Commission
Board Members
Commission Leadership
The Commission brings together judicial, legal, and community leaders through a careful balance of appointments designed to represent Arkansas’s diverse perspectives on access to justice.
This appointment structure ensures the Commission includes voices from urban and rural communities, corporate and public interest law, the judiciary and legislature, and both legal professionals and community advocates who witness the impact of legal barriers firsthand. Ex-officio members from Arkansas’s legal aid providers and law school clinics provide additional support and coordination.
Members are appointed by:
Skye Martin
Chair
Attorney
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
B.A., Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
J.D., High Honors, University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law
Skye Martin works as an attorney for the U. S. Army Corp of Engineers. She graduated fifth in her class from the Bowen School of Law in May of 2012. Skye currently serves on the Board of Directors for Arkansas Association of Women Lawyers, Make-A-Wish Mid-South, the Pulaski County Bar Association, and Southern Capital Project. She’s serving her second elected term as a Trustee of the Arkansas Bar Association. She also volunteers with many local causes, including the American Cancer Society-Arkansas, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Auxiliary, Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Easterseals, Junior League of Little Rock, and Women & Children First.
Skye lives in North Little Rock with her husband, Jonathan Martin, and their golden retriever, Indy.
Hon. Carlton Jones
Vice Chair
Circuit Judge
8th South Judicial Circuit
B.A., University of Arkansas
J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law
Judge Jones brings more than three decades of legal experience to the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission, having served Arkansas communities as both a prosecutor and a circuit court judge.
A lifelong Texarkana resident, Judge Jones earned his undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Arkansas. He began his legal career as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney before his election in 2010 as Prosecuting Attorney for the 8th Judicial Circuit-South. After four years in that role, he transitioned to the First Division bench, where he has continued to serve.
Judge Jones is active on several Arkansas Supreme Court committees, including the Model Jury Instructions Committee and the Criminal Practice Committee, which he currently chairs. His service on the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission reflects his commitment to ensuring that all Arkansans have meaningful access to the courts. He also serves on the Arkansas Sentencing Commission.
Judge Jones and his wife, Beverly, have two children and are active in their church and community in Texarkana.
Rachael Borné
Secretary
Director of Career Services
Our House
Rachael Borné is the Director of Career Services at Our House, where she has worked in direct service and program administration since 2015. In her current role, Rachael oversees all Career Center operations and supervises a large team of staff and AmeriCorps National Service Members. The Career Center empowers over 2,000 homeless and near-homeless clients each year to increase their education level, access employment, improve financial literacy, navigate the legal system, and grow in their careers.
Rachael serves on the board of Recycle Bikes for Kids, a program that provides free bikes and bike education to youth in Central Arkansas. She also serves on the board of Trust Tree, a music and arts summer program for young girls. Rachael received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Hispanic Studies from Vassar College, and completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Argentina.
Rachael is a proud graduate from Little Rock Central High School, and enjoys riding her bicycle, gardening, and hosting amazing dinner parties at her home in the Capitol View-Stifft Station neighborhood.
Hon. Amy Dunn Moore
Ex-officio Member
President of the Foundation Board
Circuit Judge for the 15th Division, 6th Judicial Circuit
Amy Dunn Moore is a family court judge serving the 6th Judicial District of Arkansas. She was
elected to serve in this role in 2020 and assumed the bench January 1, 2021. Her docket includes
cases involving divorce, custody, visitation, child support, domestic violence, guardianships, trusts
and estates, and involuntary commitments.
Amy previously served for more than eleven years as Executive Director of the Arkansas Access to
Justice Commission, where she coordinated statewide efforts to ensure civil justice for all
Arkansans. She also served as the Executive Director of the Arkansas Access to Justice Foundation
and Arkansas IOLTA Program, which engage in resource development and grantmaking initiatives to
support the objective of increasing access to justice. Prior to her time with Arkansas Access to
Justice, Amy spent six years in private practice in the health care regulatory field.
In addition to her work in the legal sector, Amy is an advocate for initiatives that promote health and
equity. She is a founding board member of Harmony Health Clinic, a free health clinic that serves
low-income uninsured residents of Pulaski County. In 2012, she was one of ten national recipients of
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award. Amy also serves as a
board member with the Arkansas Bar Foundation and a member of the ABA Commission on IOLTA.
Prof. Kelly Browe Olson
Ex-officio Member
Associate Professor
Director of Clinical Programs – UALR Bowen School of Law
B.A., 1989, Marquette University
J.D., 1992, University of Michigan
LL.M., 1997, Loyola University Chicago
Professor Olson joined the law school faculty at the University of Arkansas Little Rock – Bowen School of Law in 2001. She was the Mediation Clinic Director from 2001 – 2003, and she currently directs the clinical programs. She mediates and supervises abuse, neglect, delinquency, special education, custody and visitation and small claims mediations. She also teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution, Domestic Violence and Family Law courses. She helped create the U.A.L.R. Graduate Certificate Program in Conflict Mediation. Before coming to Arkansas, she taught mediation and ADR and lectured in juvenile law, elder law and domestic violence courses at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Before seeking her LL.M. in Child Law at Loyola, she worked as General Counsel at a small telecommunications company. She is a frequent speaker and trainer on mediation and children’s legal issues.
Ex-officio Member.
Bill Waddell
Attorney
Friday, Eldredge & Clark
Bill Waddell is of counsel to Friday, Eldredge & Clark where he has practiced law since 1984. Bill’s practice focuses on commercial and regulatory litigation. He also has a longstanding commitment to pro bono service and access to justice. In addition to his law practice, Bill serves as the Vice-President of the United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council.
Kendall Lewellen
Attorney
Legal Aid of Arkansas
J.D., 2016, William H. Bowen School of Law
B.A. with Distinction, 2012, Hendrix College
Kendall Lewellen is an attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas. She has served the legal aid community in many capacities since her first year of law school, from pro bono coordination, grant writing, legal representation in housing, family law, and public benefits cases to supervision.
Kendall Lewellen previously served as a Staff Attorney at the Fort Smith Crisis Intervention Center, where she provided civil legal aid to domestic abuse and sexual assault survivors. She has received the Spirit of the Five-Year Plan Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Outstanding Public Service Award from the William H. Bowen School of Law for her work to begin the Veterans Legal Assistance Program in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Hon. Thomas Potter
District Court
37th Judicial District
B.A., Tulane University
J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law
Judge Thomas Potter brings decades of legal experience and public service to the bench, having served the Texarkana area as a public defender, city director, assistant mayor, city prosecutor, and district judge.
A native of Texarkana, Potter graduated from Arkansas High School in 1979 and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts in 1980. He earned his undergraduate degree from Tulane University in 1985 and his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville in 1989.
Potter began his public service as a public defender for Miller and Lafayette counties, serving from 1992 to 1995. He later represented Ward 4 as a Texarkana City Director from 1999 to 2005 and served as assistant mayor from 2003 to 2005. He continued his service to the city as City Prosecutor from 2005 to 2020. In 2021, he began serving as District Judge for the 37th Judicial District, where he continues to serve today.
A lifelong resident of the Texarkana area, Potter has deep ties to the region. Outside the courtroom, he enjoys beekeeping, gardening, and working on his family’s cabin and property along the Cossatot River.
Judge Potter and his wife, Rebecca, have been married since 1994. They have two children, Taylor and his wife, Carrie Grace, and Lauren and her husband, Cody. In 2025, the family welcomed their first grandchild, Henderson.
Benetick Maddison
Executive Director, Marshallese Educational Initiative, Arkansas State University
Benetick Kabua Maddison is the Executive Director of the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI), a Springdale-based nonprofit. Born in Majuro in the Marshall Islands, Maddison migrated with his family to Northwest Arkansas at the age of six. His work at MEI includes leading efforts to raise awareness of the US nuclear testing legacy, including its ongoing biological, ecological, and cultural consequences, and of the effects of climate change. Maddison has spoken at conferences and events in the US and internationally, including addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York and a UN meeting in Vienna, Austria in 2022. He worked previously at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as a Community Health Advocate and remains active in addressing health disparities; he is also committed to raising Marshallese educational attainment levels. Currently, Maddison is pursuing a degree in political science at Arkansas State University.
Prof. Amelia McGowan
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law
Professor McGowan is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Immigration Clinic.
Professor McGowan’s scholarship and advocacy focus on asylum law–particularly in an inter-American context. Her first law review article, forthcoming in the Marquette Law Review, makes an important contribution to asylum law scholarship by identifying, analyzing, and criticizing the development of reporting requirements in some immigration courts throughout the U.S. Where they apply, these requirements bar protection where applicants did not first report the harm they suffered to the authorities in their countries of origin before fleeing–even where reporting would have been futile, dangerous, or impossible. Her second article, forthcoming in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, applies Latin American feminist theory and interdisciplinary Spanish-language sources to explore the particular harms that these reporting requirements have on applicants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador with gender-based claims. She is currently working on an article comparing the asylum systems of the U.S. and Argentina, highlighting Argentina’s innovative approaches to promoting access to justice for asylum seekers.
Since 2021, Professor McGowan has served as a Commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. Through this work, she represents the Commission in an inter-American asylum working group studying the strengths and weaknesses of the asylum systems in the U.S., Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia. In 2023, she joined a working group colleague to discuss the project with officials at the Supreme Court of Argentina. She has also co-drafted a proposed ABA resolution advocating for increased protections for asylum seekers fleeing gender-based violence.
Prior to joining the University of Arkansas faculty in 2022, Professor McGowan served as the Immigration Campaign Director at the Mississippi Center for Justice, where she focused her practice on appellate representation of asylum seekers and led a team of pro bono attorneys charged with representing over 100 Mississippians impacted by the 2019 immigration raids in chicken plants around the state. Professor McGowan also served as an adjunct professor at Mississippi College School of Law, where she taught Immigration Law and directed the school’s Immigration Clinic since its founding in 2015 until May 2022.
Professor McGowan received her J.D. from Tulane Law School, M.A. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, and B.A. in History (International Studies) and Spanish from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she studied abroad in Vietnam and participated in a cultural exchange program in Panama. She is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese.
Dequeshia Prude-Wheeler
Attorney
Prude Legacy Law Group, PLLC
J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law
Dequeshia was appointed to the Commission in 2020 by the Arkansas Bar Association President. She is the founder of Prude Legacy Law Group, PLLC, where she handles bankruptcy, probate, estate planning, and business matters.
Prior to founding Prude Legacy Law Group, PLLC, Dequeshia worked in Ethics and Compliance for a Fortune 500 corporation, served as legal counsel for a major hospital system in Northwest Arkansas, and represented chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcy debtors in federal court.
Lee Richardson
Ex-officio Member
Executive Director
Legal Aid of Arkansas
B.A. Political Science, 1983, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro
J.D., 1987, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
An Arkansas native, Lee began his legal career in 1987 as a solo practitioner in a small rural community, then had a brief stint as an Inmate Attorney for the Arkansas Department of Corrections before joining Legal Services of Northeast Arkansas in 1991. During his Legal Aid career, he has served in several capacities including staff attorney, managing attorney, litigation director, and deputy director. He has served in the Executive Director role for 22 years. Lee has served as an ex-officio member of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission for the past two decades. In 2023, the National Legal Aid & Defender Association selected him to receive the Charles Dorsey Award recognizing his dedicated and extraordinary service to the equal justice community.
Ex-officio Member.
Dr. Chadwick Rodgers
Pediatrician, Little Rock Pediatric Clinic
Chief Medical Officer, AFMC
B.A., 1994, Baylor University
M.D., 1998, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Dr. Rodgers has been in Pediatric Practice for almost 20 years at Little Rock Pediatric Clinic and has served as Chief Medical Officer for AFMC for the last five years. His interests have included Child Advocacy, Pediatric Development, Health Literacy, Social Determinants of Health, and Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience. He is an active member of the State Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and served on the National level of the American Academy of Pediatrics addressing health care disparities for children and their families. He also serves on the Board of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. During his years of practice, he has become acutely aware of the importance of the legal system in addressing the needs of his patients and families to address what he cannot in the exam room through strong Medical Legal Partnerships.
Prof. Will Foster
Ex-officio Member
Associate Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law
Professor Foster’s teaching and scholarship focus primarily on tax, business, and transactional matters. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the Business Law Concentration program.
From 2016 to 2020, Prof. Foster was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law. He was previously an associate professor at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas. From 2006-2010, he practiced in the mergers and acquisitions department of Friday, Eldredge & Clark. He holds a J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Arkansas and an LL.M. in taxation from New York University.
Professor Foster is an active member of the Arkansas Bar Association and currently serves as the reporter for the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions – Civil. He previously served as a member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Task Force on Lawyer Wellbeing, and has served as the president of the W. B. Putman American Inn of Court.
Professor Foster was voted Professor of the Year by the graduating law students at Washburn University in 2013 and at the University of Arkansas in 2016.
Hon. Adam Weeks
Circuit Court Judge
3rd Judicial District
B.A. University of Central Arkansas
J.D., University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law
Will Prettyman
Attorney
Mostyn Prettyman PLLC
J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law
Will Prettyman is a committed advocate for access to justice and a co-founder of Arkansas law firm Mostyn Prettyman PLLC. His legal practice primarily focuses on Family Law, Guardianship, and Ad Litem representation.
He has served on the Equal Access to Justice Panel with Legal Aid of Arkansas, providing critical legal support to low-income individuals and families across the state. Will’s commitment to justice also extends to his early legal training: during his law school career, he worked with the Innocence Project Clinic, helping review the cases of inmates convicted of capital offenses.
Will earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville, where he was honored with the TC & Rosemary Carlson Memorial Award for excellence in Constitutional Law. He was a member of the Dean’s List and actively engaged in the law school community, including the Black Law Students Association and Community Life Committee.
He is admitted to practice in all Arkansas state courts and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. He is a past president of the Benton County Bar Association and a former delegate on the Arkansas Bar Young Lawyers Executive Council. He has been named a Rising Star by Mid-South Super Lawyers for five consecutive years.
Outside the courtroom, Will remains dedicated to service, coaching youth soccer and basketball in Fayetteville and West Fork as a way to give back to his local community.
Sen. Clarke Tucker
Arkansas State Senator
District 14
J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law
Clarke Tucker was born and raised in Little Rock, where he graduated from Little Rock Central High. After graduating from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2006, Clarke returned to Little Rock, where he has practiced law ever since. Clarke served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 and has served in the Arkansas Senate since 2021. He lives in central Little Rock with his wife and two children.
Rep. Carol Dalby
Arkansas State Representative
District 100
Ouachita Baptist University
East Texas State University
J.D., University of Arkansas School of Law
Rep. Carol Dalby is serving her 5th term in the Arkansas House. She represents District 100 which includes Texarkana and a portion of Miller County.
For the 95th General Assembly, Rep. Dalby serves as the Chairperson of the House Judiciary Committee. She also serves on the House Insurance and Commerce Committee and the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.
Rep. Dalby is an attorney practicing in Texarkana. She graduated from Ouachita Baptist University and then went on to earn her master’s from East Texas State University (now Texas A&M). She later earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville.
Rep. Dalby has previously served as President of the Texarkana School Board. She was appointed to serve as District Judge in Miller County and as a Special Justice to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
She has previously served as president for Opportunities Inc. and for the Junior League of Texarkana. She was honored for her work with the Junior League receiving the Outstanding Sustainer Award, an award honoring members with outstanding volunteer service.
She also served as president for the Texarkana Regional Arts Council/Women for the Arts; President of the Library Commission, and Chair of the local Red Cross.
Rep. Dalby is a member of the First United Methodist Church. She has two grown children and lives in Texarkana with her husband, John.
Justice Barbara Womack Webb
Supreme Court Liaison
Justice Barbara W. Webb began practicing law in 1982 where she served as in-house counsel for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. She remained with Southwestern Bell
until 1987 before moving on to private practice, where she worked for the next ten years. In 1997 she was elected to serve as Prosecuting Attorney for the 7th and 22nd Judicial
Districts in Arkansas. She continued to serve as Prosecuting Attorney for three two-year terms.
Her judicial career began in 2005 as an Administrative Law Judge for the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. As an ALJ, she was elected President of the Arkansas Association of Administrative Adjudicator’s and served as an Adjunct Professor of the Bowen School of Law. In 2015, she became the Chief Executive Officer of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission. In 2018 she was appointed by Governor Hutchinson to serve as the first female Circuit Judge in Saline County. In 2019 she became the Chief Administrative Law Judge at the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission where she remained until January 2021 when she began her term on the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Prior to being elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court, Justice Webb served the legal community in many capacities. She was a Special Commissioner on the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission, a Special Justice on the Arkansas Supreme Court, a City Court Judge, a Special Judge in Municipal Court, and an Alderman. She practiced both criminal and civil litigation in both state and federal courts in Arkansas and handled major state regulatory proceedings in Arkansas and Oklahoma. She served on the Arkansas Juvenile Justice Coalition, the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, the State Crime Lab Board, and the Arkansas Ethics Commission. She is currently serving as the Supreme Court liaison to the Access to Justice Commission and the Committee on Model Criminal Jury Instructions and is a member of the Arkansas Bar Association.
Justice Webb earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science in 1979 from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where she was named to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded the Henry M. Alexander Award for academic achievement as the top graduating senior in her degree. She went on to earn her Juris Doctorate from the Bowen School of Law in 1982, where she was the Associate Editor of the UALR Law Journal.
She has been involved in her community and church. She served as Moderator of the Arkansas Presbytery and currently serves on the Committee on Ministry, Arkansas Presbytery. She was very active in the establishment of Safe Haven, Inc., a domestic violence shelter for adult and child victims of abuse in Saline County. She also served as legal counsel for the Ouachita Area Council of the Boy Scouts.
Justice Webb lives in Benton, Arkansas. She has been married to her husband, Doyle, for 37 years and is a proud mom to two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Carlisle and Sophie.
Justice Courtney Rae Hudson
Supreme Court Liaison
Justice Courtney Rae Hudson joined Justice Webb as one of our Supreme Court Liaisons in February 2025. Justice Hudson was elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court in May of 2010. She was raised in Boone County where her extended family still resides on their cattle farm. In 1990, she graduated from Harrison High School. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1994. Three years later, she graduated with high honors from the University of Arkansas School of Law after representing the law school on the national moot court traveling team.
Early in her career, Justice Hudson clerked for the late Judge Terry Crabtree of Bentonville and Judge Frank Aery of Conway. In 2008, the people of Washington, Benton, Johnson, Franklin, Madison, Carroll, and Crawford counties elected her to serve as a judge on the twelve-
member Arkansas Court of Appeals. Two years later, she won her first statewide election, which landed her on the Arkansas Supreme Court at the age of 38. Never before had a candidate been placed on the ballot by petition of registered voters. This made her the youngest Justice ever elected to the high court by the people of Arkansas and the first woman to win a contested race for the Court.
At the Supreme Court, she has served as the justice liaison for the Client Security Fund, the Arkansas Code Revision Committee, the Committee on Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Committee on Professional Conduct, and the Office on Professional Conduct. She also directs the payment of funds to court-appointed appellate attorneys.
In 2014, the Women’s Law Student Association at the University of Arkansas awarded her the Gayle Pettus Pontz Award for best representing the accomplishments of women in the legal community, helping women thrive in law school, and advancing women in the legal profession. After serving her first eight-year term on the Court, Justice Hudson was reelected statewide in 2018 to a second term.
Twenty-twenty-one found Justice Hudson spearheading the Court’s effort to create the Office of Ethics Counsel after learning of the Arkansas bar’s need for independent, confidential advice when faced with ethical dilemmas. In addition to her official duties on the court, Justice Hudson devotes her time to mentoring law students and speaking to civic groups across the state.
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