Opinion No.

The Honorable Sharon Priest Secretary of State State Capitol Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1094

Dear Ms. Priest:

This is in response to your request for an opinion on the following two questions:

1. When will the judgeships created by the 80th General Assembly be subject to re-election?

2. When will the judgeships of the judicial subdistricts created by the consent decree in Hunt, et al. v. Clinton, et al., PB-C-89-406, be subject to re-election?

With respect to your first question, the Eightieth General Assembly, by Acts 39, 41, and 170 of 1995,1 created one new circuit-chancery judgeship in each…