Commissioner Danyelle Walker named Supreme Court Special Justice
Gov. Mike Beebe named Danyelle Walker of Little Rock as a special justice of the state Supreme Court to hear a case involving construction of a controversial coal-fired power plant in Southwest Arkansas.
Walker replaced Justice Jim Gunter, who disqualified himself from the case in which Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) has asked the state’s highest court to review a state Court of Appeals decision to deny a permit for SWEPCO’s proposed $1.6 billion power plant in Hempstead County.
Walker is a 1995 graduate of the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law. She practices with the Law Office of Danyelle Walker.
