SELF PORTRAIT

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Dec. 26,

1944, Long Beach, Calif.

FAMILY: wife, Pat, and Jayme Parr, Craig Hannah (circuit judge … I got to swear him in, and he got to swear me in as chief), Todd Hannah, Mark Pate (district judge) and Kelli McNeil FAVORITE ITEM OF CLOTHING: jeans BEST MEMENTO: Stan Musial signed

baseball A TALENT I COVET: I wish I could paint. A SMELL THAT MAKES ME NOSTALGIC: Any time I smell cheese I think of the cheese factory in Ozark, Mo.

MY RECURRING DREAM: I’m enrolled in a class that I’ve forgotten, and now it’s finals.

I WISH I KNEW MORE ABOUT medicine, diseases we haven’t found a cure for, mental [illnesses] as well.

MY FAVORITE VACATION is with family on the Gulf at Old Florida Beach.

SOME OF MY SUMMER READING INCLUDED Coolidge by Amity Shlaes, The Kennedys by Thomas Maier, Calico Joe by John Grisham, and Gay Panic in the Ozarks by Ed Bethune.

MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOVIE: Patton

IF I HAD A TIME MACHINE, I’d like to be able to go back and visit Jesus, Martin Luther, John Calvin … just visit with those people.

MY FIRST JOB was sweeping out my dad’s floor at the dry cleaners.

MY WORST JOB: I worked in a grocery store, and I got promoted from bagging. They put me behind a meat counter, and they gave me a chicken. When I finished [carving it] no one could recognize what … I didn’t need to be a butcher.

IF I GAVE A COMMENCEMENT SPEECH … I’ve given a few, [the last] was probably at Lamar a few years ago. My theme is recognize your opportunities and walk through those windows of opportunity. And the need to live each day with purpose.

BEST QUOTE ABOUT THE LAW: Justice delayed is justice denied. And, no person is above the law.

ONE WORD TO SUM ME UP: Focused