LITTLE ROCK — An Arkadelphia lawyer has been nominated by President Barack Obama to become the U.S. attorney for the federal court system’s Western District of Arkansas.
A news release Wednesday from the White House named 31-year-old Conner Eldridge as the nominee. The nomination must be approved by the Senate before Eldridge would take office.
Eldridge would replace Deborah Groom, who has been acting U.S. attorney for the Western District since Robert Balfe’s resignation in January 2009.
The release said Eldridge has served as a deputy prosecutor for Clark County since 2009. He also worked for Summit Bank and Summit Bancorp Inc., from 2004 to 2010, serving in various senior management positions until he was named chief executive officer in 2008.
A graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina, Eldridge obtained his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 2003.