Robert Hamilton Dudley (born November 18, 1933)[1][2] was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1981 to 1996.[1]
Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, attended Arkansas State College for a year, and worked in the United States Senate stationery office while attending George Washington University for a time. He received a his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1958. Dudley engaged in the private practice of law until 1964, when he was elected as a prosecuting attorney. He was elected to a chancery court seat in 1970, and then to the state supreme court in 1980.[1][2] Dudley retired from the court in 1996.[2]
Dudley married twice, first to Sally Wentzel of New York, with whom he had four children before their divorce in 1985, and then to Mary Lynn Schwarz, in 1991.[1]