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Barbara Webb
2021 - Present
2028
4
Barbara Webb is a judge for Position 4 of the Arkansas Supreme Court. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. Her current term ends on December 31, 2028.
Webb ran for election as Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court. She lost in the general election on March 5, 2024.
Biography
Webb earned her B.A. from the University of Arkansas in 1979 and J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1982.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Arkansas Supreme Court elections, 2024
General runoff election
General runoff election for Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice
Karen R. Baker defeated Rhonda Wood in the general runoff election for Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Karen R. Baker (Nonpartisan) | 52.7 | 546,713 |
 | Rhonda Wood (Nonpartisan)  | 47.3 | 491,148 | |
| Total votes: 1,037,861 | |||
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General election
General election for Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice
Karen R. Baker and Rhonda Wood advanced to a runoff. They defeated Barbara Webb and Jay Martin in the general election for Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karen R. Baker (Nonpartisan) | 27.2 | 86,850 |
| ✔ | | Rhonda Wood (Nonpartisan) | 26.3 | 84,139 |
 | Barbara Webb (Nonpartisan) | 25.9 | 82,735 | |
 | Jay Martin (Nonpartisan) | 20.6 | 65,875 | |
| Total votes: 319,599 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Webb in this election.
2020
See also: Arkansas Supreme Court elections, 2020
General election
General election for Arkansas Supreme Court Position 4
Barbara Webb defeated Morgan Welch in the general election for Arkansas Supreme Court Position 4 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Barbara Webb (Nonpartisan) | 53.6 | 245,736 |
 | Morgan Welch (Nonpartisan) | 46.4 | 212,443 | |
| Total votes: 458,179 | |||
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Campaign themes
2024
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Campaign finance summary
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State supreme court judicial selection in Arkansas
- See also: Judicial selection in Arkansas
The seven justices on the Arkansas Supreme Court are selected through nonpartisan elections. They compete in nonpartisan general elections—occurring at the same time as the primary elections for other state officials—in which the candidate who receives more than 50 percent of the vote wins the seat. If no candidate garners a majority of the vote, the top two candidates compete in a runoff during the November general election.[2]
The winners are elected to eight-year terms.[2]
Qualifications
To serve on this court, a justice must be:[3]
- licensed to practice law in Arkansas for at least eight years;
- a qualified elector within the geographic area from which chosen.
Chief justice
The court's chief justice is selected by voters at large and serves in that capacity for a full eight-year term.[4]
Vacancies
In the event of a midterm vacancy, an interim judge is selected by the governor to fill the empty seat. If the open seat would have been filled at the next general election if the vacancy did not occur, the appointed justice will serve the remainder of the unexpired term. If the open seat would not have been regularly filled at the next general election, the appointee will serve until the next general election if the vacancy occurred more than four months prior to the election. If the vacancy occurs less than four months prior to the next general election, then the justice will serve until the second succeeding general election. A justice appointed by the governor to serve an unexpired term is ineligible to run for re-election to their seat.[2]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
2016 Republican National Convention
Webb was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Arkansas. Webb was one of 16 delegates from Arkansas bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[5] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Delegate rules
Congressional district delegates from Arkansas to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions in April 2016, while at-large delegates were elected by the Arkansas Republican State Committee at a state convention in May 2016. Arkansas GOP rules in 2016 required delegates to the convention to vote for the candidate whom they designated on their delegate-filing form through the first round of voting. The rules allowed delegates to vote for a different candidate on the first ballot only if their designated candidate released them prior to the first round of voting or if their designated candidate "withdrew" from the race.
Arkansas primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Arkansas, 2016
| Arkansas Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
32.8% | 133,144 | 16 | |
| Ted Cruz | 30.5% | 123,873 | 15 | |
| Marco Rubio | 24.9% | 101,235 | 9 | |
| Ben Carson | 5.7% | 23,173 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 3.7% | 15,098 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 1.2% | 4,703 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 2,406 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 1,127 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 651 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 409 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 286 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 250 | 0 | |
| Bobby Jindal | 0% | 167 | 0 | |
| Totals | 406,522 | 40 | ||
| Source: The New York Times | ||||
Delegate allocation
Arkansas had 40 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 12 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's four congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; the highest vote-getter in a district received two of that district's delegates, and the second highest vote-getter received the remaining delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all three of that district's delegates.[6][7]
Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 15 percent of the statewide vote in order to receive any at-large delegates. Each candidate who met the 15 percent threshold received one delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she was allocated the remaining at-large delegates. If no candidate won a majority of the statewide vote, the unallocated at-large delegates were divided proportionally among those candidates who met the 15 percent threshold. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[6][7]
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice |
Officeholder Arkansas Supreme Court Position 4 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Martindale, "Barbara Womack Webb," accessed January 5, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Arkansas Judiciary, "Arkansas Supreme Court," accessed March 27, 2023 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "ssc" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Services, "Ark. Const. Amendment 80, §16," accessed April 15, 2025
- ↑ Justia, "Arkansas Constitution - Amendment 80 - Qualifications of justices and judges.," accessed March 27, 2023
- ↑ KATV.com, "Arkansas GOP Convention Delegates and Alternates Elected," May 14, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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