Howard Walter Brill (born October 18, 1943) is a law professor and jurist who was the chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, having been appointed to that position in September 2015 and serving until December 2016.
[1] Brill went to the Duke University in North Carolina, but was expelled for plagiarism at the end of his first term, but was readmitted.
[1] He joined the Peace Corps teaching English in a Sokoto Boys School in Nigeria before leaving December 1967 due to the Nigerian Civil War.
[1] Back in America he started at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 1968, but dropped out to teach high school geography.
[2] When Chief Justice Jim Hannah retired before the end of his term due to cancer, Brill was appointed by Asa Hutchinson to fill the position.