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# Terry Sullivan

Fifteenth Judicial Circuit · Circuit Judge

## Profile

- Court: Fifteenth 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

- The Division III Judge in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, a position he has held since his 2003 appointment by Governor Mike Huckabee
- Judge Terry M. Sullivan is the Division 3 Circuit Judge for Arkansas’s Fifteenth Judicial Circuit

### Education


### Additional information

- He was admitted to the bar in 1976.
- handling most juvenile and domestic cases in Yell, Logan, Scott, and Conway counties.
- Before joining the judiciary, Sullivan practiced law for 26 years in Danville and held the role of Fifteenth Circuit chief deputy prosecutor and city attorney for Danville, Ola, Belleville, and Havana.
- His court covers Yell, Logan, Scott, and Conway counties in northwest Arkansas.
- The Division III Judge is primarily responsible for hearing most juvenile and domestic cases in the district.
- Sullivan has received the Juvenile Judge of the Year award from the Arkansas Coalition for Juvenile Justice and has served on multiple boards, including the Arkansas Bar Association Board of Directors, Chambers Memorial Hospital, and the Yell County Emergency Medical Services.