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Alumna Attorney Appointed Clerk of Courts by State Supreme Court

CONWAY, Ark. (July 2, 2014) – Hendrix alumna Stacey Pectol of Little Rock, Ark., was recently selected Clerk of Courts by the Supreme Court of Arkansas.

A Searcy native, Pectol is a 1987 Hendrix graduate and a 1990 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. She served as a law clerk for then Chief Judge Donald Corbin at the Court of Appeals. Pectol continued to clerk for Corbin after he was elected to the Supreme Court. In 1997, she worked as in-house counsel for a human resources company, where she concentrated on labor and employment law and supervised and managed the legal department. Pectol returned to the Justice Building as Justice Corbin’s law clerk in 2008.

 “I look forward to serving the public and my profession with enthusiasm and integrity as the clerk,” Pectol said. “It is a great honor and privilege to apply all I have learned during the 13 yars I’ve been in the Justice Building.

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by U.S. News and World Report.  Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges, as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu