Clay County Quorum Court
The county judge and the justices of the peace of the Clay County Quorum Court, named by district where a source says who sits for it.
Every Arkansas county is governed by a county judge, who runs the county and presides over the quorum court without a vote, and a quorum court of justices of the peace, one elected from each of its districts. No list from Clay County says which justice sits for which district, so this page names each district's justice from the Association of Arkansas Counties' 2024 general election results, and only while the association's current list for the county, read on October 13, 2026, still includes the winner. Every seat on the court, and the county judge's office, is elected at the general election of November 3, 2026 for a term that starts on January 1, 2027.
Find your Clay County district on the map →Opens the map with the county and quorum court district layers on. The district lines are the state's own map of every county's justice of the peace districts.
County Judge
- Mike PattersonCounty Judge, presiding without a vote870-598-2667The Arkansas Judiciary's directory of county judges and clerks, read October 13, 2026.
District 1
- Neal “Poppy” SmithJustice of the Peace
District 2
- Joseph C. HendersonJustice of the Peace
District 3
- Patrick PattersonJustice of the Peace
District 4
- David CagleJustice of the Peace
District 5
- Brad GreenJustice of the Peace
District 6
- Dennis HainesJustice of the Peace
District 7
- Randy KingstonJustice of the Peace
District 8
- George E. LoweJustice of the Peace
District 9
- David HatcherJustice of the Peace
Sources: the Arkansas Judiciary's directory of county judges and clerks for the county judge, the Association of Arkansas Counties' page for Clay County for the list of justices and the association's 2024 election results for who sits for which district, each read on October 13, 2026.
districtry is an independent, unofficial civic reference. It never guesses at who holds a seat: every name above is published by the county, the Arkansas Judiciary or the Association of Arkansas Counties, and where none of them says who sits for a district this page says so rather than filling the gap.
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