Davenport Moves to Gill Ragon Owen (Movers & Shakers)

Kenya Gordon Davenport has joined Gill Ragon Owen PA in Little Rock as counsel. Davenport recently had her own legal firm, Gordon Davenport PLLC, where she primarily practiced divorce, custody and visitation law. She previously worked as a law clerk for Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell L. Griffen. She also worked for the Little Rock law firm of Carney Bates & Pulliam, where she litigated consumer protection class-action cases.

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Aaron Schwabach, Rebecca Feldmann, Desireé Slaybaugh and Carolyn Ryburn have been hired to the faculty of the Bowen School of Law in Little Rock. Schwabach has been hired as associate professor of law. Feldmann has been hired as assistant professor of clinical education and director of Bowen’s new veterans legal services clinic. Slaybaugh and Ryburn join Bowen as visiting professors of law.

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Samuel McLelland has been hired as a new attorney at PPGMR in its Little Rock office. McLelland recently served as a law clerk for Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. of the Eastern District of Arkansas. McLelland previously worked on a U.S. Senate re-election campaign and a presidential campaign. He is licensed to practice law in Arkansas and Washington, D.C. McLelland attended Emory University School of Law and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he graduated magna cum laude.

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Charlene Davidson Henry has been named a special assistant United States attorney for the U.S. attorney’s office in Jonesboro. Henry currently serves as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Craighead County. She has practiced law in Arkansas since 1999.

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