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Cindy Thyer
Cindy Thyer is a judge for District 1 Position 2 of the Arkansas Court of Appeals. She assumed office on January 1, 2023. Her current term ends on December 31, 2030.
Thyer won election for the District 1 Position 2 judge of the Arkansas Court of Appeals outright after the general election on May 24, 2022, was canceled.
Biography
Thyer is married to Arkansas Eastern District U.S. attorney and former Democratic Arkansas State Representative Chris Thyer.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Education
Thyer earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1992. In 1995, she received her J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.[3]
Career
Before becoming judge of the Second Circuit of Arkansas, Thyer was deputy prosecuting attorney for Craighead County from 1996 to 1998. She also held a private practice, primarily in domestic relations litigation, at Halsey & Thyer PLC.[4]
Awards and associations
- 2014: Board member, South & East Bar District, Arkansas Bar Foundation
- 2002: Chair of the Young Lawyers Section, Arkansas Bar Association
- Executive Council, Young Lawyers Section, Arkansas Bar Association
- House of Delegates, Arkansas Bar Association
- Chair of the Board of Governors, Arkansas Bar Association
- Board of Governors, Arkansas Bar Association
- Legislation Committee, Arkansas Bar Association
- Drug Court Committee, Arkansas Judicial Council
- Trial Committee, Arkansas Judicial Council
- Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Model Jury Instructions - Civil
- Judge Alternate Member, Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission
- American Law Institute[3][7][2][8]
Elections
2022
See also: Arkansas intermediate appellate court elections, 2022
General election
The general election was canceled. Cindy Thyer (Nonpartisan) won without appearing on the ballot.
2014
See also: Arkansas judicial elections, 2014
Thyer ran for election to the Second Circuit.
General: She won without opposition in the general election on May 20, 2014.[5][6]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Cindy Thyer did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Arkansas Judiciary, "Judges of the Second Circuit"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Office of the Arkansas Governor, "Beebe appoints three Arkansans to newly created circuit judgeships," May 16, 2007
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Arkansas.gov, "Biographies of the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Arkansas Business, "40 under 40 2006," June 2006
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Arkansas Secretary of State, "Candidate information: Cindy Thyer," accessed April 7, 2014
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Arkansas Secretary of State, "2014 Arkansas Preferential Primary Elections and Nonpartisan Election," updated May 29, 2014
- ↑ Arkansas Bar Foundation, "Officers and Board of Directors 2013-2014"
- ↑ ISSUU, Vol. 37 no. 4, Fall 2002
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Federal courts:
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Arkansas, Western District of Arkansas • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Arkansas, Western District of Arkansas
State courts:
Arkansas Supreme Court • Arkansas Court of Appeals • Arkansas Circuit Courts • Arkansas District Courts • Arkansas City Courts
State resources:
Courts in Arkansas • Arkansas judicial elections • Judicial selection in Arkansas
