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# Christopher Morledge

First Judicial Circuit · Circuit Judge

## Profile

- Court: First Judicial Circuit
- State: Arkansas
- Role: Circuit Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-26

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### remote hearing platform

Scope: statewide

Arkansas Judiciary publishes electronic-hearing Zoom resources and court-user guides for remote proceedings.

Evidence excerpt: Zoom Guides for Court Users

[Arkansas Judiciary: Electronic Hearings With Zoom](https://arcourts.gov/arkansas-supreme-court-statement-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-and-courts/electronic-hearings-zoom)
Source checked: 2026-07-26

### audio recording

Scope: statewide

Arkansas Judiciary publishes state-district-court digital audio recording guidance as an official court resource.

Evidence excerpt: AOC Provisional Guidelines for Digital Audio Recording in State District Courts

[Arkansas Judiciary: District Courts](https://arcourts.gov/courts/district-courts)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://arcourts.gov/directories/circuit-judges)
- [Official roster](https://arcourts.gov/directories/circuit-judges)
- [Arkansas Judiciary official judicial roster](https://arcourts.gov/directories/circuit-judges)
- [Arkansas Judiciary: Electronic Hearings With Zoom](https://arcourts.gov/arkansas-supreme-court-statement-novel-coronavirus-outbreak-and-courts/electronic-hearings-zoom)
- [Arkansas Judiciary: District Courts](https://arcourts.gov/courts/district-courts)

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## Biography

### Professional career

- Christopher W. Morledge is a judge of the First Judicial Circuit Court of Arkansas, serving since 2014 and re‐elected in 2020, with a career that includes over 15 years as a prosecuting attorney and prior work as a public defender

### Education


### Additional information

- 5 years in private practice as an attorney
- Former public defender
- Managed the circuit’s only adult specialty court
- Established the St. Francis County Drug Court
- Morledge presides over the First Judicial Circuit Court of Arkansas, Division 3, which covers Cross, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, St. Francis, and Woodruff counties.
- Based in Forrest City, AR, and has been recognized for implementing the St. Francis County Drug Court and the Fine Collection Program, as well as presiding over the circuit’s only adult specialty court.
- He has also held the role of President of the St. Francis County Bar Association.