Hardy "Casey" Croxton

Benton County Daily Record

ROGERS - On Thursday, Hardy W. "Casey"Croxton Jr. announced his candidacy for the judgeship of the Benton County District Court, Rogers Division.

Fairness and efficiency are two goals he will pursue if elected, Croxton said in the release.

"I look forward to serving the people of Benton County as a district court judge and the challenges that will be faced in the county's busiest district court. Efficient handling of cases is important as the number of cases grows, but this efficiency cannot sacrifice fairness for those who have cases in this court. While the district court does not handle the most serious criminal and civil matters, this is the court level more people come into contact with, and all participants should be treated with fairness and respect. To them, their matter before the court is important, and I intend to make it important to me. … I pledge to hear and decide each case I hear with the utmost fairness, and I pledge to treat each and every person who appears before me with care and respect," Croxton said in the release.

He is concerned over the $ 6 million in outstanding fines due to the city of Rogers, Croxton said.

He believes his experience in administering large organizations, acquired during his tenure as vice president and general counsel for St. Mary's Hospital in Rogers, will go far toward helping him devise a plan to collect as much of the money as possible, he said in the release.

"The more of this money we collect, the less likely it is that Rogers will experience a budget shortfall, the candidate said. "This should help prevent any millage increase by the city."

His involvement with antidrug programs and his volunteer participation in other programs to benefit the community, as well as his experience as a sitting judge, have given him a unique perspective into the problems he will face in the Rogers District Court during the upcoming years, Croxton said in the release. He's confident this experience will translate into an ability to handle these problems while ensuring that fundamental rights and fairness are extended to everyone who appears before him as district court judge, he said.

A lifelong Rogers resident, Croxton attended the Rogers public schools and Westminster College and graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law, the candidate said.

A licensed attorney in Benton County for more than 25 years and the Pea Ridge City Court judge since 2002, Croxton has served as a special district court judge in the Rogers, Bentonville and Siloam Springs divisions.

He is now serving his second term as a law section chairman of the Arkansas Bar Association, where he is a tenured member of the House of Delegates.

Croxton is a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives, a past president of the Rogers Optimist Club and a member of the Rogers Noon Rotary Club.

Croxton is a member of the Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce and a board member of Drug Free Rogers-Lowell, which is sponsored by the Rogers-Lowell Area Chamber of Commerce.

He has worked as an attorney from the district court level through the state and federal appellate court level, and volunteered his time as a board member for the Beaver Water District, the Rogers United Way and other social agencies, Croxton said in the press release.

This and other nonpartisan judicial elections will be held in the first half of 2008, well before partisan elections next fall, Croxton said in a phone interview Thursday. "(The judicial elections ) are in May, at the same time as the primary," he said.

Throughout the state, nonpartisan judicial elections will be on May 20, 2008, the same day as partisan primary elections. If the nonpartisan elections require any runoffs, those will be held on Nov. 4, the same day as the general election, a spokesman for the Arkansas secretary of state said Thursday.

Croxton for District Judge
Rogers Division

	Fairness
	Respect
	Responsibility

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