APDC News

Commissoners

Mr. Kirby Riffel
Attorney at Law
202 West Broadway Street
Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455

Judge Jones is presently serving his eighth term as County Judge of Jefferson County Arkansas. He is a graduate of Pine Bluff High School and The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff where he received his degree in Criminal Justice and Political Science. He is a member of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Sherrill, Arkansas and is a graduate of Leadership Pine Bluff.

Judge Jones serves on numerous boards and commissions other then the Public Defender Commission including; The Jefferson County Health Department Board, The Southeast Arkansas Behavioral Health System Board. Judge Jones is the Vice-Chairman of the Southeast Arkansas Economic Development District Board and is Ex-Officio of the Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Port Authority Board. He serves on the Southeast Arkansas Regional Planning Commission and the Pine Bluff Downtown Development, Inc. Board. He is a board member on the MECA (Metropolitan Emergency Communications Association) and is Secretary of the Southeast Arkansas Solid Waste Board. He is a member of the Arkansas Good Road Transportation Council Board. He is Chairman of Arkansas Solid Waste Licensing Committee and is Ex-Officio of Literacy Council of Jefferson County Board and serves on the General Advisory Council for Southeast Arkansas College as well as being a Boeuf-Tensas Regional Irrigation Water Distribution District Board member.

Appointed to the Public Defender Commission in January of 2003, L.Wren Autrey has engaged in the practice of law in Texarkana since 1986 and is a member of the Texarkana and Arkansas Bar Associations. His practice has included state and federal court trials and appeals involving labor and employment law, criminal law, and the representation of indigent criminal defendants in state and federal courts. He served as Public Defender for Miller County. In addition, he has served as City Attorney in matters before the Civil Service Commission and in litigation involving the City in U.S. District Court and Arkansas state courts. He is graduate of Texarkana, Arkansas High School (1979); Washington & Lee University at Lexington, Virginia (B.A., 1983), and University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville (J.D., 1986). A lifetime resident of Texarkana, Arkansas, Wren is a former member of the United Way Board, the Weed & Seed Commission; and the Volunteer Services Board; a graduate of Leadership Texarkana; and a member of First United Methodist Church, Texarkana, Arkansas, where he previously served as lay leader and stewardship chairman and is currently serving as a Board member and treasurer.