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Judicial Misconduct: What Is It?

Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge Chris Williams resigned after an investigation. He's not alone.

Judge Chris Williams (Photo courtesy of Arkansas Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission)

Circuit judges are elected officials. 

They are attorneys who run in non-partisan elections. If they are elected, they serve six-year terms, and many times they are re-elected again and again.

That was the case with Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge Chris Williams, 69, who has presided over cases in Hot Spring and Grant counties for 20 years.

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