Adams, Derry Beach

Dale Adams has spent his entire adult life studying or working in the Arkansas criminal justice system. His Masters of Public Administration area of study was in judicial administration. Following graduate school, he worked for the Arkansas Judicial Department (now the Arkansas Office of the Courts) and the Commission on Crime and Law Enforcement.

After graduating from law school and becoming licensed to practice law, he became a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in 1978, becoming a trial division chief. From 1985-1989, he also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.

In 1989, he entered private practice concentrating on criminal defense. He has defended criminal cases throughout Arkansas at the trial level, appellate level, and in post-conviction. He has served as lead counsel in over two dozen capital murder cases. He has also successfully represented several death row inmates in post-conviction proceedings which resulted in the inmates receiving sentences other than death.