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Elsijane Trimble Roy (April 2, 1916 – January 23, 2007) was an associate justice of the
Arkansas Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Arkansas is the highest court in the state judiciary of Arkansas. It has ultimate and largely discretionary appellate jurisdiction over all state court cases that involve a point of state law, and original jurisdiction ...
and a
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of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (in case citations, E.D. Ark.) is a federal court in the Eighth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appeal ...
and the
United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (in case citations, W.D. Ark.) is a federal court in the Eighth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appeale ...
.


Education and career

Born in
Lonoke, Arkansas Lonoke () is the second most populous city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States, and serves as its county seat. According to 2010 United States Census, the population of the city is 4,245. It is part of the Little Rock– North Little ...
, Roy received a
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from the
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in 1939. She was in private practice in Lonoke in 1939, and in
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in 1940. She was an attorney for the Arkansas State Department of Revenue in Little Rock from 1941 to 1942. She was in private practice in Blytheville, Arkansas from 1945 to 1963. She was a
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for Justice
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of the
Supreme Court of Arkansas The Supreme Court of Arkansas is the highest court in the state judiciary of Arkansas. It has ultimate and largely discretionary appellate jurisdiction over all state court cases that involve a point of state law, and original jurisdiction o ...
from 1963 to 1965. She was a Circuit Judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas in 1966. She was an assistant state attorney general of the State of Arkansas in 1967, and was then a law clerk for Judge Gordon E. Young of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Arkansas from 1967 to 1969, and a senior law clerk for Judge
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of the United States District Court of the Western District of Arkansas from 1970 to 1975. She was an associate justice of the
Arkansas Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Arkansas is the highest court in the state judiciary of Arkansas. It has ultimate and largely discretionary appellate jurisdiction over all state court cases that involve a point of state law, and original jurisdiction ...
from 1975 to 1977.


Federal judicial service

On October 21, 1977, Roy was nominated by President
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to a joint seat on the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (in case citations, E.D. Ark.) is a federal court in the Eighth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appeal ...
and the
United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas (in case citations, W.D. Ark.) is a federal court in the Eighth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appeale ...
vacated by Judge
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. She was confirmed by the
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on November 1, 1977, and received her commission on November 2, 1977. She assumed
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on January 1, 1989. On December 1, 1990, Roy was reassigned to sit on only the Eastern District of Arkansas, and served in that capacity until her death, in Little Rock on January 23, 2007.


Family

She was the daughter of
Thomas Clark Trimble III Thomas Clark Trimble III (August 27, 1878 – July 6, 1965) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Education and career Born in Lonoke, Arkansas, Trimble received a Bachelo ...
and Elsie Jane Walls. She married lawyer James Morrison Roy on November 23, 1944, they divorced in 1967, they had one son. She and her husband had a law firm of Roy and Roy, dissolved in 1963.


See also

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Elsijane Trimble 1916 births 2007 deaths Justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter 20th-century American judges University of Arkansas School of Law alumni 20th-century American women judges