Betty Clark Dickey[1] (born February 23, 1940) is the first woman to serve as the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
She initially worked as an educator before learning about the law in the office of her former husband Jay Dickey, Jr., Esq.
[8] On January 5, 2004, then Governor Mike Huckabee appointed Dickey as the interim Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas.
Although Dickey was appointed on an interim basis, she was the first woman in the court's history to serve as chief justice.
Governor Huckabee thereafter appointed Dickey to serve the remainder of Hannah's term as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, and she remained on the bench until December 2006.