In Memoriam

Walter Barry Cox

of Fayetteville died September 12, 2020, at the age of 79. Over the course of his 54-year career, Walter tried and won more than an estimated 300 cases to juries in both state and federal courtrooms across the state. The Arkansas Bar Foundation and the Arkansas Bar Association honored him with the Outstanding Lawyer Award in 2012 in recognition of excellence in the practice of law and outstanding contributions to the profession. Walter obtained a dual B.S. and Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas in 1966. He was a past president of the Washington County Bar Association. Walter began his legal career in 1966 with the Fayetteville firm of Putman, Davis and Bassett where he made partner in 1970. The firm was later known as Davis, Cox & Wright. After 34 years of practice in that firm, Walter established the firm of Cox, Cox & Estes, PLLC.

Daniel "Danny" Richard Elrod of Siloam Springs died on August 4, 2020, at the age of 64. He attended the University of Arkansas, where he earned his Juris Doctorate in Law. Danny practiced law for 40 years in Siloam Springs at Elrod Law Firm.

David K. Harp of Fort Smith died on September 7, 2020, at the age 71. David served as a captain in the U.S. Army and graduated from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia and from the University of Arkansas School of Law. After law school, he became the corporate counsel for a government contractor in North Carolina, which his wife says stretched his ethics so he came home to Arkansas and performed legal aid for many years; his wife said that was his penance for performing corporate work. For the last 30 years, he worked as an attorney in Fort Smith alongside his loving work family at Walker & Harp. P.L.L.C.

G. Michael Millar of Searcy died August 31, 2021, at the age of 69. For him, being an attorney was more than a vocation; it was an animating force. Mike was a graduate of Little Rock Hall High School, Hendrix College and the UA Little Rock School of Law. He practiced law in Searcy for 43 years, served as Searcy city attorney from 1978-2004 and was a special justice to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2011. He was a former president of the Searcy Chamber of Commerce and the White County Bar Association.

Bobby Lee Odom

of Fayetteville died October 10, 2020, at the age of 81.He graduated from Murphy High School in Mobile in 1957. He attended the Marion Military Institute and graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1961. After college, he began working as an insurance adjuster for Crawford and Company. First stationed in Lafayette, La., he was transferred to the Fayetteville office in 1966. He then entered the University of Arkansas School of Law graduating in 1970. After clerking for the Arkansas Supreme Court for a year, he began practicing in Fayetteville with Walter Niblock. In 1982 he opened his own law firm in the historic Guisinger Building on the Fayetteville downtown square.

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