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The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 
Volume 18 Issue 1 Article 2 
2017 
For Coleen Miller Barger: A Note of Thanks and Best Wishes 
J. Thomas Sullivan 
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, jtsullivan@ualr.edu 
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THE JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE AND PROCESS Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2017) 
THE JOURNAL OF 
APPELLATE PRACTICE 
AND PROCESS 
DEDICATION
FOR COLEEN MILLER BARGER:
A NOTE OF THANKS AND BEST WISHES 
J. Thomas Sullivan* 
The Editorial Board of The Journal, with some sadness, 
notes the recent retirement of one of its founders and its 
longtime Developments Editor, Coleen Barger, from the 
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law. In 
recognition of her many contributions to The Journal, the Board 
dedicates this issue to her. She was present at the creation and 
contributed hours of hard work, exceeded only by her 
intellectual energy and good cheer, to helping this publication 
find a niche in the legal academic marketplace. We can only 
hope that we can continue to grow in service—and, we trust, 
influence—in the coming years without her. But no matter how 
well we manage from here on, it will not be possible to replace 
her.
Professor Barger retired as the Ben J. Altheimer 
Distinguished Professor of Law after twenty-five years of 
teaching at Bowen. The backbone of the Law School’s highly 
regarded legal-writing program, Professor Barger was 
recognized as a national leader in that field, being awarded the 
*Professor, University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law; 
Founding Editor, The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process.
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Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding 
Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing, jointly given by the 
Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing 
Institute, in 2016. Four times she was recipient of Bowen’s 
Faculty Excellence Award, three times for teaching and once for 
service, and her contributions to the practicing bar were 
recognized by the Arkansas Bar Foundation, which twice 
awarded her its prize for excellence in writing published by the 
Arkansas Lawyer magazine. 
Professor Barger’s interests in teaching, legal writing, and 
the practice of law were intertwined over the course of her 
career. She served as Associate Research Editor of the UALR 
Law Journal (now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law 
Review) as a student and practiced in the probate and appellate 
sections of the Mitchell Williams firm in Little Rock prior to 
returning to Bowen to begin her legal teaching career in 1992. 
But having taught French and English before embarking on her 
legal education, she has always been a teacher at heart—always 
concerned with improving the quality of her law students’ 
thinking and helping them focus on the application of legal 
concepts to real-world concerns. 
In her work for The Journal, Professor Barger organized 
symposia, edited manuscripts, cite-checked articles, and 
generally offered her expertise on any point of policy facing the 
Board. She also published with us, even though she could have 
placed her articles in more established reviews, which was an 
important element in our growth as a fledgling publication. She 
allowed us to publish a particularly influential article addressing 
the citation of electronic sources back when citation to Internet 
sources was still an emerging issue in the evolving relationship 
between law and law practice and the Web.1 The article is 
rightly regarded as one of the groundbreaking works in that field 
and is still cited with regularity. 
But even before she made those important contributions to 
our work, it was Professor Barger who pitched the idea of 
creating The Journal to our former dean, Rodney K. Smith, 
when he interviewed for the deanship here at Bowen. Dean 
1. Coleen M. Barger, On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Judge: Federal 
Appellate Courts’ Use of Internet Materials in Judicial Opinions, 4 J. APP. PRAC. &
PROCESS 417 (2002). 
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Smith embraced the concept and threw his enthusiastic support 
behind it when he asked the Bowen faculty to approve the 
project. The faculty voted to endorse the proposal, but not 
without some concern, and it was Professor Barger’s firm 
commitment to making this publication a successful contributor 
to the body of scholarship focused on the appellate courts, on the 
appellate practice, and on the many facets of appellate 
decisionmaking that gave the rest of the faculty sufficient 
confidence to approve its launch. Almost two decades on, we 
can see that both her early commitment to The Journal’s success 
and her continuing support of its mission have helped Bowen 
build it into an established scholarly publication trusted by law 
professors, judges, and lawyers alike.2
Professor Barger has been a leader in the growing national 
movement recognizing the important, and often underestimated, 
at least in the past, role of legal writing and legal-writing 
instruction, reflected in her work with the Association of Legal 
Writing Directors, which selected her to be the primary author 
of the both the fifth and sixth editions of The ALWD Guide to 
Legal Citation, and the Blackwell Award bestowed on her last 
year. Beyond writing, she has also contributed significantly to 
the legal-research tool box, including through her authorship of 
the seminal guide for practitioners in this state, Arkansas Legal 
Research.
Within The Journal, the Bowen faculty, and the larger 
legal-writing community, Professor Barger has always been a 
person who could be counted on to do the hard work, take 
responsibility for decisionmaking, and stick to the project 
through the finish. She is the colleague everyone wants, the kind 
of stalwart teammate for whom there is no substitute. 
Although we are saddened by her decision to retire, our 
sorrow is easily overcome by reflecting on what Professor 
Barger continues to mean to this publication. And we know that 
she now will have more time to spend on the water with her 
husband, cruising the rivers of the Eastern and Southeastern 
2. Last year, The Journal was cited almost 100 times in the lead law reviews and 
specialty law journals published by forty-five different law schools. The Journal was also 
cited eighteen times in the opinions of eleven state and federal courts. And Journal articles 
appeared in seminar materials distributed to lawyers attending at least three appellate 
seminars around the country. 
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United States, and enjoying her family. That life will take her 
away from us in person, but The Journal will always reflect her 
spirit. We must be satisfied with knowing that she will never 
stray too far from our shore. 
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PUBLICATIONS BY COLEEN MILLER BARGER
BEN J. ALTHEIMER DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF LAW
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT  LITTLE ROCK
WILLIAM H. BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW
x   ALWD GUIDE TO LEGAL CITATION (6th ed. 2017)
x   ARKANSAS LEGAL RESEARCH (2d ed. 2016) (with Cheryl 
L. Reinhart & Cathy L. Underwood) 
x   ALWD GUIDE TO LEGAL CITATION (5th ed. 2014)
x   THE ALWD COMPANION ONLINE (2014) (with Brooke 
Bowman)
x Challenging Judicial Notice of Facts on the Internet 
Under Federal Rule of Evidence 201, 48 U.S.F. L. REV.
479 (2013)
x   THE ALWD COMPANION: A CITATION PRACTICE BOOK 
AND TEACHER’S MANUAL (2010) (with Brooke Bowman)
x Two Perspectives: Starting a Scholarly Journal, 10 J.
APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 1 (2009) (with Lindsey P. 
Gustafson)
x   ARKANSAS LEGAL RESEARCH (2007)
x Things You Need to Know, in HANDLING APPEALS IN 
ARKANSAS (2d ed. 2007) (with Julie DeWoody 
Greathouse)
x How to Make the Losing Oral Argument, 41 ARK. LAW.
16 (Summer 2006)
x EditingEssentials (TWEN 2005) (with Judith 
Rosenbaum)
x Amicus Humoriae: An Anthology of Legal Humor, L.
TEACHER 14 (Spring 2004) (book review)
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x On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Judge: Federal 
Appellate Courts’ Use of Internet Materials in Judicial 
Opinions, 4 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 417 (2002)
x Preface—Expedited Appeals in Selected State Appellate 
Courts, 4 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 191 (2002)
x Preface—Anastasoff, Unpublished Opinions, and “No 
Citation” Rules, 3 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 169 (2001)
x Foreword, 2 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS v (2000) (issue 
devoted to technological developments in appellate 
courts and practice)
x The Uncertain Status of Citation Reform: An Update for 
the Undecided, 1 J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS 59 (1999)
x Arkansas’s Putative Father Registry and Related Adoption 
Code Provisions: Inadequate Protection for Thwarted 
Putative Fathers, 1997 ARK. L. NOTES 49 (with Kathryn A. 
Sampson & Kim Flanery Coates) 
x How to Write a Losing Brief, 30 ARK. LAW. 10 (Spring 1996) 
x Probate Law, 23 ARK. LAW. 16 (Jan. 1989) (with Jean D. 
Stockberger)


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