Robert Hamilton Dudley (November 18, 1933 – April 1, 2023) was an American judge who was a justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1981 to 1996.
[1][2] He attended Arkansas State College for a year, and worked in the United States Senate stationery office while attending George Washington University for a time.
He received a his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1958.
Dudley engaged in the private practice of law until 1964, when he was elected as a prosecuting attorney.
[2] Dudley married twice, first to Sally Wentzel of New York, with whom he had four children before their divorce in 1985, and then to Mary Lynn Schwarz, in 1991.