Background
Eisele, Garnett Thomas was born on November 3, 1923 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States. Son of Garnett Martin and Mary (Martin) Eisele.
Eisele, Garnett Thomas was born on November 3, 1923 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States. Son of Garnett Martin and Mary (Martin) Eisele.
Student, University Florida, 1942. Student, Indiana University, 1943. AB, Washington University, St. Louis, 1947.
Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1950. Master of Laws, Harvard University, 1951.
Eisele was a private in the United States Army during World World War II from 1942 to 1946. In 1947 he procured a Bachelor of Arts from Louis, Missouri. He then obtained both Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws degrees in 1950 and 1951, respectively, from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From 1952 to 1961 Eisele was in the United States. Naval Reserve.
He was in private practice in Hot Springs from 1951 to 1953. He was an assistant United States Attorney in Little Rock from 1953 to 1955.
After he was not nominated for United States. Attorney, Eisele returned to private practice in Little Rock from 1956 to 1970. In the early 1960s Eisele supported Winthrop Rockefeller"s attempt to revive the Arkansas Republican Party.
At the time Rockefeller was engaged in an intraparty rivalry with state chairman William L. Spicer of Fort Smith, the owner of a chain of drive-in theaters.
From 1966 to 1969 Eisele was the legal advisor to Rockefeller, who was elected governor in 1966 and 1968. Eisele was Rockefeller"s choice for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, a position vacated in 1969 by Gordon East. Young. Two other Arkansas Republicans had expressed interest in the judgeship, Odell Pollard of Searcy in White County, then the state Republican chairman and the choice of former United States. Senate nominee and later Arkansas state party chairman Charles T. Bernard, and state Circuit Judge Henry M. Britt of Hot Springs, the 1960 Republican gubernatorial nominee against Orval East. Faubus.
On January 23, 1970 Eisele was nominated by President Richard M. Nixon.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 5, 1970. He received his commission the following day.
He served as chief judge from 1975 to 1991, having assumed senior status on August 1, 1991.
Delaware Arkansas 7th Constitutional Convention, 1969-1970. Trustee University Arkansas, 1969-1970. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Member American Bar Association, Arkansas Bar Association, Pulaski County Bar Association, American Judicature Society, American Law Institute.
Married Kathryn Freygang, June 24, 1950. Children: Wendell A., Garnett Martin II, Kathryn M., Jean E.