John Gill is a senior attorney/shareholder and director with Gill Ragon Owen, P.A. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Vanderbilt University and joined the Arkansas Bar in 1962. He was a delegate to the 1969 Arkansas Constitutional Convention, and served as special counsel to the Governor for the proposed Arkansas Constitution of 1996. He was on the faculty of the Arkansas College of Trial Advocacy, and an original member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure. His areas of practice include utilities, charities, municipal finance, corporate and business law and litigation. A member of the Arkansas Water Code Study Commission in 1981-82, he has considerable expertise in water-related legal matters and is an author of tax-free municipal bond legislation. He is a past President of the Arkansas Bar Association and was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
Mr. Gill was recently honored with the "Parker Westbrook Award for Lifetime Achievement" at the 2019 Arkansas Preservation Awards.
Phi Delta Phi. Co-Author: "On the Courthouse Square in Arkansas," MJG Publications, 1980. Instructor, International Law, 1972, Professional Responsibility, 1977 and State and Local Government, 1985, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. Member of Faculty, Arkansas College of Trial Advocacy, 1979. Trial Counsel, General Court Martial, Quantico, Virginia, 1962-1963. Assistant Attorney General of Arkansas, 1963-1965. Delegate from Pulaski and Perry Counties and Chairman, Committee on Municipal Government, Arkansas Constitutional Convention, 1969. Special Counsel to Governor of Arkansas, 1994-1996. Member, Arkansas Water Code Study Commission, 1981-1982. Chairman, Governor's Task Force for a New Constitution, 1995.
