Susan Webber Wright at a glance
- Current role
- Judge
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas · Federal
- Judicial service
- January 24, 1990–present
Susan Webber Wright
Judge · U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
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Biography
Professional career
- professor, 1983-1990
- Visiting associate professor, Louisiana State University Law Center, 1982-1983
- Visiting associate professor, Ohio State University College of Law, 1981-present
- Visiting assistant professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, 1980-present
- associate professor, 1980-1983
- Research assistant, Arkansas constitutional convention, 1979-present
- assistant professor and assistant dean, 1976-1978
- Faculty, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, 1976-1990
- Law clerk, Hon. J. Smith Henley, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1975-1976
Judicial service
- Judge, District Court, W.D. Arkansas, 1990-1990
- Judge, District Court, E.D. Arkansas, 1990-2013
Education
- University of Arkansas · M.P.A., 1973
Personal record
Born 1948 · Texarkana, AR
Courtroom rules and guidance
Civil Remote Testimony
In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards.
For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location.Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court ↗
Criminal Recording And Broadcasting
Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception.
Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom.Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited ↗
Sources
Federal Judicial Center biography
Identity source · HTML · checked July 25, 2026
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1390171CourtListener judicial biographical directory
Identity source · HTML · checked August 2, 2026
https://www.courtlistener.com/person/3568/susan-webber-wright/Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court
Judge research source · HTML · checked July 26, 2026
https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedureFederal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited
Judge research source · HTML · checked July 26, 2026
https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts