The “Richard S. Arnold Award for Distinguished Service” was recently awarded by the Eighth Circuit Bar Association to UAPB Alumnus Jerry M. Hunter. Hunter is Senior Counsel at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP with special expertise in labor and employment law. Hunter graduated from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) with a bachelor’s degree in history and government, and later graduated from Washington University Law School in 1977. Ten years later, Hunter completed the Senior Executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
This year’s Richard S. Arnold Award for Distinguished Service was presented during the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri, in August 2025. The award is named in honor of former Chief Judge Richard S. Arnold, who led a distinguished career that included graduating first in his class at Yale University and Harvard Law School. Judge Arnold clerked for Justice William Brennan on the Supreme Court of the United States before entering private practice and serving on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Arnold’s biographer said that he was “perhaps the best judge never to serve on the Supreme Court.” The award is certainly fitting for Mr. Hunter, who likewise has achieved a career of distinguished service.
From 1989 to 1993, Hunter served as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, having been nominated to that position by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the United States...
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