Zina Frazier, Commissioner

Managing Attorney for the HelpLine - Center for Arkansas Legal Services

B.A., 1986, Hendrix College
J.D., 1989, Whittier College School of Law

Ms. Frazier was appointed to the Access to Justice Commission in 2004 by Governor Mike Huckabee.

Ms. Frazier has been with the Center for Arkansas Legal Services for over ten years. As the Managing Attorney for the HelpLine, she oversees the telephone hotline that provides counsel, legal advice and brief service to low-income Arkansans. She collaborates in the continuing development of the Center’s on-line self-help materials for pro se litigants.  Ms. Frazier has developed evaluation standards for the American Association of Retired Persons which are used nationally by its legal hotlines. She served as a grant examiner for the Administration on Aging, assessing grant applications for a technology/hotline grant. She is a contributor to the Arkansas Bar Association’s “Caregiver’s Guide.” Prior to joining the Center, she was in private practice in Little Rock.
 
Ms. Frazier has been a member of the Arkansas Bar Association since 1996.  She is involved in the Volunteers in Public Schools program, the Boy Scouts of America, and was a Children’s Ministry Volunteer with Agape Church in Little Rock.