Little Rock School Board

The Little Rock School Board was formed by an act of the state legislature on February 4, 1869.

Past and Present Board Members of the LRSD

• Frederick Kramer (1866-1894)
• E. V. Clark (1866-1869)
• Emanuel Armstead (1867-1870)
• J. R. Montgomery (1867-1870)
• M. L. Andrews (1868-1871)
• Benjamin Thomas (1868-1871)
• Jesse Kirby (1869-1872)
• R. B. White (1870-1873)
• W. W. Wilshire (1870-1873)
• J. W. Smith (1871-1874)
• E. T. Dale (1871-1872)
• D. P. Upham (1872-1875)
• Hartwell Ferguson (1872-1880)
• A.J. Thompson (1873-1876)
• Charles E. Cunningham (1873-1877)
• John B. Bond (1874-1876)
• Albert Cohn (1874-1877)
• William Thompson (1875-1878)
• George A. Hughes (1875-1888)
• Cullen G. Cribbs (1876-1876)
• Rollin A. Edgerton (1876-1895)
• Jacob F. Trumpler (1877-1880)
• James E. Rector (1880-1893)
• Henry L. Fletcher (1881-1883, 1888-1892)
• Daniel G. Fones (1883-1893)
• James W. Mitchell (1892-1895)
• Wallace W. Dickinson (1892-1895)
• Louis Cohen (1893-1900)
• W. T. Wilson (1893-1896)
• George H. Sanders (1893-1894)
• Jacob Niemeyer (1894-1897)
• J. A. Woodson (1894-1899)
• George L. McLean (1895-1901)
• George W. Thornburg (1895-1898)
• George L. McLean (1895-1901)
• Rufus J. Polk (1897-1900)
• Lewis W. Cherry (1897-1905, 1911-1914)
• Walter Pemberton (1898-1901)
• J. W. Beidelman (1899-1902)
• J. E. Williams (1900-1903)
• Morris M. Cohn (1900-1903)
• George L. Basham (1901-1904)
• Joseph H. Bilheimer (1901-1904, 1912-1921)
• Thomas M. Mehaffy (1902-1907, 1913-1916)
• Max Heiman (1903-1906)
• James H. Lenow (1903-1906, 1912-1915)
• John M. Dungan (1904-1905)
• Nal Williams (1904-1905)
• Lewis Rhoton (1905-1908)
• Williams M. Kavanaugh (1905-1914)
• L. B. Leigh (1905-1919)
• Lewis Wolsey (1906-1908)
• Samuel W. Reyburn (1906-1909, 1914-1915)
• John H. Hollis (1907-1913)
• Albert D. Cohn (1908-1909)
• Warren E. Lenon (1908-1911)
• Ashley Cockrill (1909-1912)
• E. L. Rogers (1909-1912)
• B. P. Kidd (1914-1920)
• Celsus P. Perry (1915-1920)
• Joseph B. Bateman (1915-1924)
• Mahlon D. Ogden (1916-1918, 1920-1923, 1929-1932)
• G. DeMatt Henderson (1918-1930)
• Caughey E. Hayes (1919-1922)
• J. F. Loughborough (1920-1923)
• L. C. Holman (1921-1929)
• Lillian McDermott (1922-1946)
• J. P. Runyan (1923-1929)
• W. N. Brandon (1923-1932)
• H. T. "Will" Terry (1924-1939)
• W. A. McDonnell (1929-1939)
• David D. Terry (1930-1934)
• Homer Scott (1932-1938)
• Hardin Bale (1932-1941)
• Winnie Bess Rawlings (1934-1946)
• Robert Caldwell (1939-1945)
• Robert M. Williams (1939-1945)
• Murray O. Reed (1939-1945)
• E. F. Jennings (1941-1945)
• R. M. Blakely (1941-1947)
• William F. Steinkamp (1944-1951)
• W. E. "Gene" Bale (1945-1948)
• Werner C. Knoop (1945-1951)
• Edwin N. Barron, Jr. (1946-1955)
• Hardy L. Winburn (1946-1952)
• G. O. Dean (1947-1950)
• Graham R. Hall (1948-1950)
• Paul Y. Griffin (1950-1953)
• William G. Cooper (1950-1958)
• Louise McLean (1951-1957)
• Lucy Dixon (1951-1957)
• Foster Vineyard (1952-1955)
• R. A. Lile (1953-1958)
• Harold J. Engstrom, Jr. (1955-1958)
• Dale Alford (1955-1958)
• Wayne Upton (1957-1958)
• Henry V. Rath (1957-1958)
• W. Frank Lambright (1958-1958)
• Ed I. McKinley, Jr. (1958-1959)
• R. W. "Bob" Laster (1958-1959)
• Ben D. Rowland, Sr. (1958-1959)
• Everett Tucker, Jr. (1958-1965)
• Russell H. Matson, Jr. (1958-1966)
• Ted Lamb (1958-1964)
• J. H. Cottrell, Jr. (1959-1964)
• B. Frank Mackey (1959-1962)
• W. C. McDonald (1959-1966)
• John A. Harrel, Jr. (1962-1968)
• James M. Coates, Jr. (1964-1967)
• Warren K. Bass (1964-1967)
• Jean Gordon (1965-1968)
• Edwin N. Barron, Jr. (1966-1970)
• Winslow Drummond (1966-1970)
• T. E. Patterson (1966-1982)
• Daniel H. Woods (1967-1971)
• William R. Meeks, Jr. (1967-1971)
• Charles A. Brown (1968-1972)
• Jim L. Jenkins (1968-1972)
• Bert O. Miller (1970-1973)
• George P. Beene (1970-1973)
• E. Kearney Dietz (1971-1974)
• Jim P. Spradley (1971-1974)
• Douglas A. Stevens (1972-1975)
• Robert M. McHenry, Jr. (1972-1978)
• Lucy Abraham (1973-1979)
• James M. Adams, Jr. (1973-1976)
• Arthur W. Gillum (1974-1983)
• Neill Hart, Jr. (1974-1977)
• B. Travis Tunnel, Jr. (1975-1978)
• Jim R. Newell (1976-1979)
• Vance Jones (1977-1980)
• Herbert C. Rule III (1978-1984)
• Robert L. Henry III (1978-1981)
• C. O. Magee, Jr. (1979-1982)
• Dr. Peter T. Sherrill (1979-1982)
• Betty Herron (1980-1983)
• Fay Southern (1981-1987)
• David Cockcroft (1982-1987)
• Herbert Yarbrough (1982-1988)
• B. G. Williams (1982-1985)
• B. Frank Mackey, Jr. (1983-1986)
• Willie D. "Bill" Hamilton (1983-1992)
• Ruth Shepherd (1984-1987)
• Thomas Broughton (1985-1988)
• Robin Armstrong (1986-1992)
• H.M. "Mac" Faulkner (1987-1990)
• Joyce Kelly-Lewis (1987-1988)
• Oma "O.G." Jacovelli (1987-1995)
• J. L. "Skip" Rutherford (1987-1991)
• Charles D. Young (1987-1988)
• Lawrence Hampton (1988-1988)
• Patricia Gee (1988-1998)
• Katherine P. Mitchell (1988-present)
• John Moore (1990-1993)
• Dorsey Jackson (1991-1994)
• George D. Cannon (1992-1992)
• John A. Riggs (1992-1998)
• Judy Magness (1994-2003)
• Linda Pondexter (1994-1996)
• Stephanie Johnson (1995-1995)
• Robert M. Daugherty (1995-present)
• Sue Strickland (1995-2006)
• Larry Berkley (1996-present)
• Mike Kumpuris (1998-2003)
• H. Baker Kurrus (1998-present)
• Tony Rose (2000-2006)
• Bryan Day (2003-2006)
• Tom Brock (2006-2006)
• Melanie Fox (2006-present)
• Charles Armstrong (2006-present)
• Dianne Curry (2006-present)

External links

• Little Rock School District - History of the Board of Directors