Judge Susan Webber Wright
September 2012: Average Prison Sentence

District Court - Arkansas East
Referring Agency: Drug Enforcement Administration
Lead Charge: Withheld by govt from TRAC (FOIA challenge pending)
Program Area: Withheld by Govt from TRAC

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To District		 Compared
To U.S.
Latest Fiscal Year - - -
Previous Fiscal Year 13.0 - -
Past 5 Years 56.8 -37.6% -36.0%
Percent not reported where cases too few to provide
meaningful comparison.
Table 1: Current and 5 Year
Average Prison Sentence Comparison

Judge Susan Webber Wright's service terminated on December 1, 1990, due to statutory reassignment of judg. Judge Susan Webber Wright didn't dispose of any cases in the Eastern District of Arkansas in the current fiscal year (2012) and disposed of 4 cases in the previous year.

Over the last five years, the average prison sentence imposed on defendants that were credited to Judge Wright was 56.8 months. This was 37.6% lower than the 90.9 months typical in Arkansas East and 36.0% lower than the 88.7 months average prison sentence for the nation. Judge Susan Webber Wright sentenced 20 defendants during the past five years.

(CAUTION: The kinds of cases handled by individual judges influences statistical information about their sentences. It therefore is important to consider the breakdown of cases that each has handled, available below, when making judge-by-judge comparisons.)

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Figure 1: Five Year Comparison of Average Prison Sentence
in Months

Figure 1 compares Judge Wright's numbers to those for judges in this district and in the United States as a whole for cases of this type over the last five years.

During the last five years there were 5 other judges in the Eastern District of Arkansas with information on convictions during that period. Average prison sentence numbers passed down for those judges ranged from 39.6 months to 184.7 months, putting Judge Wright's average prison sentence of 56.8 months at the lower end of the range. The average prison sentence for the whole Eastern District of Arkansas during that time was 90.9 months.

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Figure 2: Detailed Comparison among Judges for the Eastern District of Arkansas

Professional Biography

Born 1948 in Texarkana, AR

Federal Judicial Service
Judge, U. S. District Court, Western District of Arkansas

Nominated by George H.W. Bush on September 21, 1989, to a seat vacated by Elsijane Trimble Roy; Confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 1990, and received commission on January 24, 1990. Service terminated on December 1, 1990, due to statutory reassignment of judges.

Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas

Nominated by George H.W. Bush on September 21, 1989, to a seat vacated by Elsijane Trimble Roy; Confirmed by the Senate on January 23, 1990, and received commission on January 24, 1990. Served as chief judge, 1998-2005.

Education:
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, B.A., 1970
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, M.P.A., 1973
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, J.D., 1975

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. J. Smith Henley, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1975-1976
Faculty, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, 1976-1990
Assistant professor and assistant dean, 1976-1978
Associate professor, 1980-1983
Professor, 1983-1990
Research assistant, Arkansas Constitutional Convention, 1979
Visiting assistant professor, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of Law, 1980
Visiting associate professor, Ohio State University College of Law, 1981
Visiting associate professor, Louisiana State University Law Center, 1982-1983

Number of Defendants in Judge Susan Webber Wright's Cases

Judge Susan Webber Wright didn't handle any convictions of this type in the current fiscal year 2012.