Susan Webber Wright (née Carter; born August 1, 1948) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Wright is a former judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She received national attention when she first dismissed the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones against President Bill Clinton in 1998, and then, in 1999, found Clinton to be in civil contempt of court.
Susan Webber Wright
Arkansas Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Born 1948 in Texarkana, AR
FJC ID: 2664
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 2/year
Arkansas Western District Court · 1990–1990Arkansas Eastern District Court · 1990–2013
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of LawFaculty · 1976–1990
- ↳assistant professor and assistant dean · 1976–1978
- ↳associate professor · 1980–1983
- ↳professor · 1983–1990
- Louisiana State University Law CenterVisiting associate professor · 1982–1983
- Ohio State University College of LawVisiting associate professor · 1981
- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville School of LawVisiting assistant professor · 1980
- Arkansas constitutional conventionResearch assistant · 1979
Law clerk , Hon. J. Smith Henley · 1975–1976
Appointments
1990–1990 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)Term ended: Reassignment
1990–2013 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1975- University of ArkansasM.P.A. · 1973
- Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now Randolph College)B.A. · 1970