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Rhonda Wood
Justice, Arkansas Supreme Court · Position 7
Background: Her career experience includes working as a judge and assistant dean of the Bowen School of Law. Wood began her judicial career as a Division 5 judge for the Twentieth Circuit Court.
At a glance
- Court
- Arkansas Supreme Court
- Position / seat
- Position 7
- Chief justice
- No
- How they joined the court
- Elected (first elected 2014)
- Appointed by
- Not applicable (elected)
- Appointment date
- Not applicable (elected)
- Took office
- January 1, 2015
- Current term ends
- December 31, 2030
- Next election or retention vote
- Not listed
- Last election
- November 5, 2024
- Party (as listed by Ballotpedia)
- Nonpartisan
- Ballotpedia partisanship estimate
- Mild Republican (2020 study of justices' pre-court partisan activity)
- Education
- Bachelor's: Hendrix College, 1996
- Law: University of Arkansas, Little Rock
- Law: University of Arkansas, Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law, 1999
- Prior offices
- Not listed
- Profession
- Judge
- How this court's justices are chosen
- Nonpartisan electionsVoters elect the justices; no party label appears on the ballot.
Summary of facts listed on Rhonda Wood’s Ballotpedia page (retrieved Oct 26, 2026) · Photo: Ballotpedia. “Not listed” means Ballotpedia didn’t list it in a form this site could read; check Ballotpedia for the latest.
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