Robert Allen Leflar

View of Leflar receiving award from C.H. Gray. Awards---1970. Citation for Distinguished Alumni Award---1970. (On verso: [engr. instr.] Leflar receiving check from C.H. Gray)"Robert Allen Leflar (1901-1977) "was one of Arkansas’s most renowned legal scholars, a champion of racial equality, longtime dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville (Washington County), and president of two state constitutional conventions." Leflar worked his way through the University of Arkansas (UA), beginning in 1919 and earning his BA degree in 1922. He taught school at Stuttgart (Arkansas County), worked at UA’s news bureau in 1922 and 1923, and taught at John E. Brown College (now John Brown University) in Siloam Springs from 1923 to 1924." He was hired to teach at Arkansas’s new law school later that year [1932]." He was granted the rank of full professor in September 1933." Leflar served on the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1949 to 1951 and relinquished the deanship in 1954. He continued to teach until retiring in 1971, but he returned to teaching at the university in 1974."(Encyclopedia of Arkansas