Background
Goodwin, Ray A. was born on February 12, 1938 in Paragould, Arkansas, United States.
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Ray A. Goodwin
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University of the South. Hendrix College (Bachelor of Arts, 1962). Southern Methodist University (Juris Doctor, 1965).
Career
Worked at Goodwin, Moore, Colbert & Broadaway (Paragould, Arkansas) specializing in General Civil and Criminal Trial Practice, Real Estate, Family Law, Corporation, Financial Institutions, Insurance and Probate Law. Admitted to the bar, 1965, Arkansas. Delta Theta Phi; Blue Key.
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 1964-1965.
Member: Greene-Clay County, Northeast Arkansas, Arkansas (Recipient: Golden Gavel Award, 1986) and American Bar Associations. Goodwin, Moore, Colbert & Broadaway was founded in 1889 by Jefferson Davis Block.
The firm is the second oldest continuing business in Greene County and one of the oldest law firms in the state. Mr. Block participated extensively in litigation between the United States of America and landowners determining title to much of the eastern part of Greene County in its early years.
Other prominent past partners of the firm were William F. Kirsch, Maurice Cathey (both of whom practiced more than 50 years) and Gerald Parker Brown.
Mr. Cathey served as President of the Arkansas Bar Association and, as a probate specialist, helped write the Probate Code of 1949. Mr. Brown, a Marine veteran of World World War II and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Arkansas, left the firm in 1975 for the bench and was honored in 1979 as Trial Judge of the Year by the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Moore is the immediate past president of the Arkansas Bar Association.
The firm supports and participates in various community and civic affairs and its members are active in local and state bar associations.
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Member: Greene-Clay County, Northeast Arkansas, Arkansas (.
