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After spending nearly 40 years as an attorney, professor and dean, Paula Casey said it was time to retire.
The 65-year-old Charleston (Franklin County) native retired on June 30 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she was the interim vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school. She had held that position since 2013.
"Paula Casey Is an Arkansas gem who enjoyed a career to which we should all aspire," Michael Hunter Schwartz, dean of the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, said in a news release that announced Casey's retirement. "She was an outstanding public servant, a tenacious U.S. attorney, a beloved colleague, and a wildly successful academic administrator."
Her highest-profile and most stressful time, though, came when she was U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas between 1993 and 2000.
As soon as she took the job, the fireworks began.
"It was very eye-opening to me how...