Lindsley Smith
Lindsley Smith (B.A., M.A., J.D.) is a Research Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She previously taught at Clemson University in South Carolina, Ferris State University in Michigan, and the University of West Florida, as well as the Summer Statesman Programs at Stanford and Yale. Smith has been a Visiting Scholar at Emmanuel College and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge; and a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund Hall and Visiting Scholar and member of the Board of Governors of Manchester College at the University of Oxford. Professor Smith is currently a Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
Smith has taught courses in Legal Communication, Political Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Persuasion, Business and Professional Communication, Forensics, Introduction to Communication, and Public Speaking. She also teaches the Summer Seminar in Legal Communication and Cultures at Oxford and Cambridge
Smith's legal experience includes private practice as a law firm associate. She has served as law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit; the Arkansas Court of Appeals; the Washington County Circuit Court; and the Office of the Arkansas Attorney General. She also worked at the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, the White House, and the Office of the Washington County Prosecuting Attorney. She was selected as a United States Supreme Court Judicial Fellows Finalist in 2000.
Smith's articles have been published in Free Speech Yearbook, American Communication Journal, Communication Law Review, Journal of Communication Studies, and The Speech Teacher; with entries in the Encyclopedia of American Law and Early Encounters in North America: People, Cultures, and the Environment. Her research has been awarded top paper designation six times by Divisions of the National Communication Association and Southern States Communication Association.
Past and present professional service includes Board of Directors of the American Communication Association; Chair of the Southern States Communication Association's Freedom of Speech Division; Editor of Communication Law Review; Associate Editor of American Communication Journal; Basic Course Director in the Department of Communication Studies at Clemson University; American Society of Trial Consultants; William Putman Inn of Court; William Overton Inn of Court; American Trial Lawyers Association; Washington County Bar Association; the Arkansas Bar Association and its Appellate Practice Committee.