David Allan Allan Gates

Background

Gates, David Allan was born on November 29, 1946 in Little Rock. Son of James Barkman and Mary Jane (Kingman) Gates.

Education

Yale University (Bachelor of Arts, 1969). Vanderbilt University (Juris Doctor, 1972).

Career

Worked at Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. (Little Rock, Arkansas. Also Wash., DC) specializing in Litigation, Environmental Law. Admitted to the bar, 1972, Arkansas.

1976, District of Columbia. Special Projects Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1971-1972. Author: "Tactical Considerations in Hazardous Waste Trials," Natural Resources & Environment, Volume 1, No.

3, Fall, 1985. Contributing Author for Mathew Bender Survey of State Environmental Law. Editor, Arkansas Environmental Law Handbook. Law Clerk: to Chief Judge Pat Mehaffy, United States.

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1972-1974. To Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun, United States. Supreme Court, 1974-1975.

Adjunct Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School, Environmental Law, 1981—. The Best Lawyers in America, 1995— editions. Member: Pulaski County, Arkansas (Member, Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee.

Environmental Law Committee. Chairman, Environmental Law Committee, 1988) and American Bar Associations. The District of Columbia Bar.

American Law Institute.

Achievements

• Bar: Arkansas 1972, District of Columbia 1976.

Membership

Trustee Arkansas Nature Conservancy, Little Rock. President Old State House Museum Associations, Little Rock, 1980-1983. Member American Bar Association, Arkansas Bar Association (chair environmental law committee 1986-1988), Pulaski County Bar Association, American Law Institute, Environmental Law Institute.

Connections

Married Karen Virginia Kinsley, December 20, 1969. Children: Lorraine Kjensli, Elizabeth Kingman.

Father:

James Barkman Gates

Mother:

Mary Jane (Kingman) Gates

Spouse:

Karen Virginia Kinsley

child:

Lorraine Kjensli Gates

child:

Elizabeth Kingman Gates