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Brent Standridge for District Judge
32nd District, Division 2
OVER A QUARTER CENTURY OF LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
*FORMER DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
*SPECIAL ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS
*SPECIAL SALINE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE
*SPECIAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGE
*SALINE COUNTY CHIEF DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
*SPECIAL PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
*BRYANT ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY
*ARKANSAS ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL
*SALINE COUNTY DEPUTY PUBLIC DEFENDER
*COMMISSIONER OF ARKANSAS SENTENCING COMMISSION
*PRIVATE PRACTITIONER
*LEGAL EDUCATOR
With over a quarter century of legal experience, a strong and diverse criminal justice background, and a distinguished record of public service, attorney Brent Standridge stands out as the experienced choice for the position of District Court Judge of the Thirty-Second District, Division Two, which includes all of Saline County and that portion of Alexander located in Pulaski County.
Brent previously served as a full-time District Court Judge for North Little Rock for a period of 2 years where he decided more than 40,000 cases, including criminal, traffic, and code enforcement cases (2003-2004). Additionally, Brent served 3 times on the Supreme Court of Arkansas, our state's highest court, as a Special Associate Justice (2004-2006). He was appointed to the positions of District Court Judge and Special Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas by Governor Mike Huckabee.
Brent's judicial experience also includes serving as a Special Saline County Circuit Judge, having served in that capacity in Divisions 2, 3, and 4 of the Saline County Circuit Court (2008-2009). He also served as a Special Saline County District Court Judge, Bryant Division (2006-2007), as well as a Special District Court Judge for North Little Rock and Sherwood (2007).
Brent's experience as a prosecutor on the trial court level includes serving as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Bryant where he prosecuted criminal, traffic, and code enforcement cases in the Bryant District Court (2005), as well as Saline County Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for a period of 6 years (1997-2002) where he prosecuted serious violent felony cases while working with area law enforcement officers and victims of violent crime. He also served as a Special Prosecuting Attorney on numerous and complex cases across the State of Arkansas.
Brent served 10 years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Justice/Appeals Division of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office (1986-1997) and in 1997 he was awarded a Distinguished Public Service Recognition from that office. He represented the State of Arkansas in hundreds of appellate cases before courts including the Supreme Court of Arkansas and Arkansas Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Brent was the office's point person regarding drafting of criminal law and procedure related legislation, and he coordinated the passage of many acts to improve our criminal justice system. Additionally, he spent considerable time working with law enforcement officers including teaching training seminars for the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy, the State Forestry Commission's Training School in Ferndale, and various law enforcement agencies across the state. Brent drafted several teaching outlines utilized in his law enforcement officer training including What Every Officer Should Know, Searches, Seizures and Arrests, and Confessions. He was certified as a law enforcement instructor by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training in 1992.
Brent is President and Owner of the Law Offices of J. Brent Standridge, P.A., with its main office in Downtown Benton, where he has a general law practice which includes criminal defense and civil litigation. He is a Deputy Public Defender for Saline County and represents indigent defendants charged with crimes in all Saline County Courts.
A legal educator over the course of his career, Brent has spent hundreds of hours teaching the law to law enforcement officers, paralegals, high school and college students, court clerks, attorneys, judges, and others. He taught the law to paralegals at South Central Career College in North Little Rock and criminal justice students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He taught the legal portion of the National Rifle Association's Personal Protection Course where citizens undergo training to obtain concealed carry weapons permits. Brent also taught seminars hosted by numerous criminal justice organizations and currently teaches continuing legal education seminars for the Arkansas Sentencing Commission regarding legal ethics and criminal expungements. He has also frequently taught continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the Saline County Bar Association.
Brent is a Commissioner on the Arkansas Sentencing Commission, having served in that capacity since 2005. The purpose of the Arkansas Sentencing Commission is to establish sentencing standards and to monitor and assess the impact of practices, policies, and existing laws on the correctional resources of this state. Brent was appointed twice to the Commission by Governor Huckabee and was recently reappointed to a 5 year term by Governor Mike Beebe.
He also served on the National Institute of Justice's Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Advisory Council (LECTAC) for a period of 5 years (2002-2006), and was awarded a Distinguished Public Service Certificate in 2007. He served on the Council's Training and Simulation Subcommittee.
Brent's involvement in the community includes volunteering his time to preside over the Saline County Teen Court program where high school students in Saline County participate in the criminal justice process regarding cases which are diverted to Teen Court from the Juvenile Division of the Saline County Circuit Court. In this program, high school students are able to further their education and gain insight into the process of our criminal justice system by actually deciding punishment of juveniles who have been found to have committed criminal offenses as well as to participate in the process by serving as jurors, prosecutors, and defense counsel.
Brent serves on the Board of Directors of Within R.E.A.C.H., Inc., an organization dedicated to supporting homeless youth of Saline County, and participates in the Watch D.O.G.S. Program at Caldwell Elementary School in Benton where his son attends third grade. Additionally, Brent is a supporter and sponsor of youth baseball in Saline County including the annual Wally Hall Tournament of Champions. He has served on the Arkansas Bar Association's Mock Trial Program where he was an Attorney Coordinator, Coach, and Volunteer for high school students participating in mock trial competitions.
Brent is married to Lori Standridge and they have 2 children: Paige Anderson, who works for Brent at his law office in Benton, and Trevor, who is a third-grader at Caldwell Elementary School in Benton. The Standridges are members of the First United Methodist Church in Benton and reside in Benton.
The District Court of the Thirty-Second District, Division Two, exercises jurisdiction over criminal, traffic, code enforcement, and civil small claims cases throughout Saline County and that part of Alexander located in Pulaski County. It has departments in Alexander, Bauxite, Bryant, Haskell, and Shannon Hills, with Small Claims Division in Benton.
The nonpartisan judicial general election in to be held May 22, 2012, with early voting beginning May 7, 2012. If you are registered to vote in the Thirty-Second District, you are eligible to vote in the election.
Brent previously served as a full-time District Court Judge for North Little Rock for a period of 2 years where he decided more than 40,000 cases, including criminal, traffic, and code enforcement cases (2003-2004). Additionally, Brent served 3 times on the Supreme Court of Arkansas, our state's highest court, as a Special Associate Justice (2004-2006). He was appointed to the positions of District Court Judge and Special Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas by Governor Mike Huckabee.
Brent's judicial experience also includes serving as a Special Saline County Circuit Judge, having served in that capacity in Divisions 2, 3, and 4 of the Saline County Circuit Court (2008-2009). He also served as a Special Saline County District Court Judge, Bryant Division (2006-2007), as well as a Special District Court Judge for North Little Rock and Sherwood (2007).
Brent's experience as a prosecutor on the trial court level includes serving as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Bryant where he prosecuted criminal, traffic, and code enforcement cases in the Bryant District Court (2005), as well as Saline County Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for a period of 6 years (1997-2002) where he prosecuted serious violent felony cases while working with area law enforcement officers and victims of violent crime. He also served as a Special Prosecuting Attorney on numerous and complex cases across the State of Arkansas.
Brent served 10 years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Justice/Appeals Division of the Arkansas Attorney General's Office (1986-1997) and in 1997 he was awarded a Distinguished Public Service Recognition from that office. He represented the State of Arkansas in hundreds of appellate cases before courts including the Supreme Court of Arkansas and Arkansas Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Brent was the office's point person regarding drafting of criminal law and procedure related legislation, and he coordinated the passage of many acts to improve our criminal justice system. Additionally, he spent considerable time working with law enforcement officers including teaching training seminars for the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy, the State Forestry Commission's Training School in Ferndale, and various law enforcement agencies across the state. Brent drafted several teaching outlines utilized in his law enforcement officer training including What Every Officer Should Know, Searches, Seizures and Arrests, and Confessions. He was certified as a law enforcement instructor by the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training in 1992.
Brent is President and Owner of the Law Offices of J. Brent Standridge, P.A., with its main office in Downtown Benton, where he has a general law practice which includes criminal defense and civil litigation. He is a Deputy Public Defender for Saline County and represents indigent defendants charged with crimes in all Saline County Courts.
A legal educator over the course of his career, Brent has spent hundreds of hours teaching the law to law enforcement officers, paralegals, high school and college students, court clerks, attorneys, judges, and others. He taught the law to paralegals at South Central Career College in North Little Rock and criminal justice students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He taught the legal portion of the National Rifle Association's Personal Protection Course where citizens undergo training to obtain concealed carry weapons permits. Brent also taught seminars hosted by numerous criminal justice organizations and currently teaches continuing legal education seminars for the Arkansas Sentencing Commission regarding legal ethics and criminal expungements. He has also frequently taught continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the Saline County Bar Association.
Brent is a Commissioner on the Arkansas Sentencing Commission, having served in that capacity since 2005. The purpose of the Arkansas Sentencing Commission is to establish sentencing standards and to monitor and assess the impact of practices, policies, and existing laws on the correctional resources of this state. Brent was appointed twice to the Commission by Governor Huckabee and was recently reappointed to a 5 year term by Governor Mike Beebe.
He also served on the National Institute of Justice's Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Advisory Council (LECTAC) for a period of 5 years (2002-2006), and was awarded a Distinguished Public Service Certificate in 2007. He served on the Council's Training and Simulation Subcommittee.
Brent's involvement in the community includes volunteering his time to preside over the Saline County Teen Court program where high school students in Saline County participate in the criminal justice process regarding cases which are diverted to Teen Court from the Juvenile Division of the Saline County Circuit Court. In this program, high school students are able to further their education and gain insight into the process of our criminal justice system by actually deciding punishment of juveniles who have been found to have committed criminal offenses as well as to participate in the process by serving as jurors, prosecutors, and defense counsel.
Brent serves on the Board of Directors of Within R.E.A.C.H., Inc., an organization dedicated to supporting homeless youth of Saline County, and participates in the Watch D.O.G.S. Program at Caldwell Elementary School in Benton where his son attends third grade. Additionally, Brent is a supporter and sponsor of youth baseball in Saline County including the annual Wally Hall Tournament of Champions. He has served on the Arkansas Bar Association's Mock Trial Program where he was an Attorney Coordinator, Coach, and Volunteer for high school students participating in mock trial competitions.
Brent is married to Lori Standridge and they have 2 children: Paige Anderson, who works for Brent at his law office in Benton, and Trevor, who is a third-grader at Caldwell Elementary School in Benton. The Standridges are members of the First United Methodist Church in Benton and reside in Benton.
The District Court of the Thirty-Second District, Division Two, exercises jurisdiction over criminal, traffic, code enforcement, and civil small claims cases throughout Saline County and that part of Alexander located in Pulaski County. It has departments in Alexander, Bauxite, Bryant, Haskell, and Shannon Hills, with Small Claims Division in Benton.
The nonpartisan judicial general election in to be held May 22, 2012, with early voting beginning May 7, 2012. If you are registered to vote in the Thirty-Second District, you are eligible to vote in the election.
Brent Standridge for District Judge Campaign Committee
111 West South Street, P.O Box 494
Benton, AR 72018
(501) 303-4477
standridge4judge@gmail.com
Paige Anderson, Campaign Treasurer
