Professor of Law Librarianship; Reference/Special Collections Librarian
B.A., 1971, University of Arkansas
M.S.L.S., 1976, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
J.D., 1983, University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law
Before coming to UALR in 1987, Professor Fitzhugh established the U.S. Courts Branch Library in Little Rock where she served as the first librarian for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In addition, she worked as a cataloger at Philander Smith College, a technology librarian at the University of Arkansas Graduate Institute of Technology, extern law clerk to the late Hon. George Howard, Jr. at the Arkansas Court of Appeals, law clerk to the late Hon. George Howard, Jr., U.S. District Judge, and as a lawyer in private practice with her spouse.
Professor Fitzhugh’s law school service includes serving on law school committees, campus-wide committees, and the UALR Faculty Senate. In 2003 Professor Fitzhugh received the law school’s Faculty Excellence Award for Public Service.
Professor Fitzhugh presently serves as the Reference/Special Collections Librarian. Professor Fitzhugh’s chief responsibilities are reference service, faculty liaison reference duties, rare books management, preservation, exhibits, collection development, and archives management. Professor Fitzhugh taught LexisNexis and Westlaw for twenty-five years.
An active member of several bar, archivist, and library associations, Professor Fitzhugh has served as president, vice-president, program chair, and local arrangements chair for the Southwestern Association of Law Libraries. She has served as parliamentarian of the W. Harold Flowers Law Society. Professor Fitzhugh has been a speaker at the annual meetings of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, and Southwestern Association of Law Libraries. She has given CLE presentations for the National Business Institute, W. Harold Flowers Law Society, and Arkansas Bar Association. She has served as a workshop speaker for the Arkansas History Commission and the Black History Commission of Arkansas.
Professor Fitzhugh’s publications include:
Moses Aaron Clark, (1834?-1924), in Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net. (Little Rock, Ark.: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System, 2009).
Government Internet Resources: Federal, State and Local in Find It Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web. (Eau Claire, Wis.: National Business Institute, 2008).
Chapter 14: Trust Bibliography in Revocable Trust Handbook for Arkansas Practitioners (Little Rock, Ark.: Arkansas Bar Association, 2007).
Federal Income Taxation in Specialized Legal Research 3-1--3-101 (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2003).
Arkansas Practice Materials II: a Selective Annotated Bibliography, 21 UALR L. Rev. 363 (1999).
Arkansas Practice Materials: a Selective Annotated Bibliography, 11 UALR L.J. 791 (1989). (First published in 81 Law Library J. 277 (1989).
E-mail: kcfitzhugh@ualr.edu
Phone: 501.324.9974
Revised: 8/18/2009