Benton County district judge
District Judge Chris Griffin
Division 1 of the Benton County district court.
- Elected office
- Division 1
- Cities served
- Rogers
Criminal and traffic cases originating in these cities. Civil and small claims are assigned separately — see below.- Departments listed
- Rogers
As the Arkansas Judiciary directory files them under this judge. Not a statement of which cases they hear.- Phone
- 479-621-1132Clerk: Dana Burk
- Official listing
- Arkansas Judiciary directory (opens in a new tab)
Cases assigned
From section II of the county's administrative plan, effective 1 January 2026 through 31 December 2027.
- Criminal and traffic cases originating in the City of Rogers.
- Criminal and traffic cases arising in Division 1 brought by the County of Benton, the Arkansas State Police, or Arkansas Game and Fish.
- Small claims cases arising in Division 1 are assigned to Division 3, not to this division.
Dockets presided over
Presides over the Division 1 civil docket and over bond show cause hearings at Rogers.
Civil docket on the third Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.; bond show cause hearings on the second Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.
Elected office and current assignment are different things
A judge is elected to a numbered division, and A.C.A. § 16-17-1110(1) — Organization and designation, on Justia (opens in a new tab) attaches a court name to each division — which is why the Arkansas Judiciary directory lists Rogers District Court under Division 1. The same statute, at subsection (1)(D), then leaves the assignment of judges to departments to the mutual agreement of the state district court judges, and subsections (F) and (G) make the judges elected districtwide and the court's jurisdiction districtwide.
That is the administrative plan's authority to route cases and dockets across division lines, and why the division a city belongs to does not by itself tell you which judge hears its cases.
Sources: Arkansas Judiciary — Hon. Chris Griffin (opens in a new tab)Arkansas Judiciary — Benton County administrative plan (opens in a new tab)
Last verified: August 25, 2026