Robert Carl Knox (April 19, 1892 – December 8, 1947)[1][2] was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1943 to 1944.
[2] He entered the practice of law in Monticello, Arkansas, and over a 30-year legal career became known as an expert in oil litigation.
[2][3] Knox later served as chairman of the Democratic State Committee, from which he resigned in January 1941.
[3] On April 20, 1943, Governor Homer Martin Adkins appointed Knox to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the death of Justice Ben Carter.
[1][3] In October of that year, Knox had a heart attack,[4] but remained on the bench until the expiration of his term at the end of 1944.