Robert A. Leflar
Robert Allen Leflar (March 22, 1901 – July 8, 1997)[1] was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1949 to 1950.
Leflar was born in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He would graduate from University of Arkansas with a BA in 1922. In 1923, he was a faculty member at John Brown University. He then went to Harvard Law School, graduating with a LLB in 1927 and a SJD in 1932. After graduating from law school, he was an instructor at the University of Arkansas School of Law and eventually became the school's dean in 1946. Leflar was the dean of the law school when Silas Herbert Hunt applied and was accepted into the law school, the first black applicant to a law school in the South.[2]
From 1942 to 1944, Leflar was the attorney for the War Relocation Authority, the federal agency tasked with placing Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.[1]
Leflar died in 1997 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Robert Allen Leflar (1901–1997)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved February 18, 2023.
- ^ "Campus Community Invited to 75 Years of Progress: The Lasting Legacy of Silas Hunt". University of Arkansas.
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