Shanice Johnson
Shanice Johnson is a first-generation college student who has called Arkansas home for over nine years. She grew up surrounded by a large extended family. While her childhood was nurturing and filled with reassuring moments there were events in her childhood that allowed her to see, at a very tender age, the importance of having fierce advocates for children. Those experiences drive how Shanice would rule on the bench ensuring that children get the services they need.
As a student at the University of Arkansas Little Rock William H. Bowen Law School, Shanice was drawn to programs designed to address public harms. Specifically, she took externships at the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission and Social Security Administration. She also enrolled in the Mediation Clinic and Tax Clinic. Through those experiences, she found that physical environments, childhood experiences, housing, education, poverty, and access to justice are reasons we find our children tied up in the juvenile system.
Shanice prides herself on being a public servant in both her personal and professional life. She has volunteered with organizations that serve underprivileged youth such as Big Brother Big Sisters and Boys and Girls Club of America. She has also volunteered at the Center for Arkansas Legal Services, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Pro-Bono Wills Clinic for Patients, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Pro-Bono Wills for First Responders, and Shorter College Expungement Clinic. As an attorney at the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Shanice began her career focusing on dependency neglect cases in juvenile court. This has given her first-hand knowledge on how the system works and which of her ideas, once implemented could make the juvenile court system run more effectively.
This is why Shanice believes that the time is now for innovative leadership on the 6th Circuit, 10th Division Juvenile Court and that she is that leader. Shanice understands what it will take to create a juvenile court where the composition and outcomes are based solely on the merits of each individual case. Shanice's mission, once elected is to foster collaboration with other community stakeholders to partner with the court and its efforts to reduce children's interactions with the entire system.
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As a student at the University of Arkansas Little Rock William H. Bowen Law School, Shanice was drawn to programs designed to address public harms. Specifically, she took externships at the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission and Social Security Administration. She also enrolled in the Mediation Clinic and Tax Clinic. Through those experiences, she found that physical environments, childhood experiences, housing, education, poverty, and access to justice are reasons we find our children tied up in the juvenile system.
Shanice prides herself on being a public servant in both her personal and professional life. She has volunteered with organizations that serve underprivileged youth such as Big Brother Big Sisters and Boys and Girls Club of America. She has also volunteered at the Center for Arkansas Legal Services, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Pro-Bono Wills Clinic for Patients, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Pro-Bono Wills for First Responders, and Shorter College Expungement Clinic. As an attorney at the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Shanice began her career focusing on dependency neglect cases in juvenile court. This has given her first-hand knowledge on how the system works and which of her ideas, once implemented could make the juvenile court system run more effectively.
This is why Shanice believes that the time is now for innovative leadership on the 6th Circuit, 10th Division Juvenile Court and that she is that leader. Shanice understands what it will take to create a juvenile court where the composition and outcomes are based solely on the merits of each individual case. Shanice's mission, once elected is to foster collaboration with other community stakeholders to partner with the court and its efforts to reduce children's interactions with the entire system.
Get involved to see this change and help welcome in new leadership!