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The Marie Award Board of Directors is pleased to
announce that the 2012 Marie Award will be presented
to Justice Robert L. Brown.
Justice Robert L. Brown sits on the board of directors
for The Marie. He has been honoring community service
in this way since 2008. Justice Brown has many connections
with the Spitzberg family. He attended high school
with Irving Spitzberg and their time at Columbia
in New York overlapped.
Justice Brown spoke at The Marie event when Trinity
Episcopal and Bethel AME Church were honored. He
was then asked to join the board. Justice Brown
currently serves on the Arkansas Supreme Court.
He graduated from the University of the South, Magna
Cum Laude, in 1963. Justice Brown went on to graduate
school at Columbia University and graduated in 1965
with a masters in English and Comparative Literature.
In 1968, he graduated from the University of Virginia
law school.
Reading through Justice Brown’s resume is impressive.
He started his career in the general practice of
law with Chowning , Mitchell, Hamilton and Burrow.
He then went on to become the Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney with the Prosecuting Attorney’s office
for the Sixth Judicial District.
Justice Brown then became the Legal Aide to Governer
Dale Bumpers followed by the Legislative Assistant
to Senator Dale Bumpers in Washington, DC. He stayed
in Washington, DC and worked as the Administrative
Assistant to Congressman Jim Guy Tucker. Before
becoming Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court he
worked in the General Practice of Law under the
name Harrison and Brown, P.A. and then Robert L.
Brown, PA.
Justice Brown has a published book, articles
and many published legal writings. He works with
various legal associations and has made many important
opinions. Justice Brown has received many awards
and has participated in multiple bar activities.
He has experience in teaching a Bar Review Course
for Lawyers and a National Government Course. Justice
Brown has trial court experience as a special Judge
for Pulaski County Circuit Court. Through the years
he has served in many community service positions.
Justice Brown resides in Arkansas with his wife
Charlotte. They have one son, Stuart Brown, and
two grandchildren, Annabel and Banks Brown that
live in Dallas, Texas. Justice Brown’s father, an
episcopal bishop, was part of the 1957 crisis.
Charlotte Brown knew Marie Spitzberg well. Mrs.
Brown helped to raise money for the institute of
Aging where Mrs. Spitzberg received her medical
care for many years.
Justice Brown is working on the next Marie Award
theme – the crippling effect of prescription drugs.
Little Rock, Arkansas ranks high in prescription
drug abuse.
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