Benton County district judge
District Judge A.J. Anglin
Division 3 of the Benton County district court.
- Elected office
- Division 3 · elected March 3, 2020
- Cities served
- Decatur
- Gentry
- Gravette
- Highfill
- Siloam Springs
- Sulphur Springs
Criminal and traffic cases originating in these cities. Civil and small claims are assigned separately — see below.- Also sits at
- Benton County West District Court · Rogers District Court
- Departments listed
- Siloam Springs
As the Arkansas Judiciary directory files them under this judge. Not a statement of which cases they hear.- Phone
- 479-524-4947Clerk: Cayley Taylor
- 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 Siloam Springs, Decatur, Gentry, Gravette, Highfill and Sulphur Springs.
- Criminal and traffic cases brought by the Benton County Sheriff's Office and the Arkansas State Police arising in Division 3 or Division 4, and by the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Police Department.
- All civil and small claims cases arising in Division 3 and Division 4, and all small claims cases arising in Division 1.
Dockets presided over
Presides over every docket at the Benton County West court in Gentry.
Benton County West District Court
Criminal and traffic arraignments on the first, second, third and fourth Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.; civil and small claims on the first Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.; plea and discovery hearings and trials for city prosecutors on the second Wednesday at 1:00 p.m., and for the Benton County Prosecutor's Office on the third Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.
Presides over every docket at Siloam Springs.
Criminal and traffic every Monday at 8:30 a.m.; arraignments every Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.; plea and discovery every Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.; small claims and civil on the second Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.; trials on the last Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.
Presides over the small claims docket at Rogers, which sits in Division 1.
Fourth Thursday at 9:00 a.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 Siloam Springs District Court under Division 3. 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. A.J. Anglin (opens in a new tab)Arkansas Judiciary — Benton County administrative plan (opens in a new tab)
Last verified: August 25, 2026