Claire Cockrell was the first Legal Justice Fellow at the Arkansas Appleseed Legal Justice Center. She spent the summer of 2022 working on Arkansas Appleseed’s Heirs Property Research & Policy Analysis Project. Cockrell is a concurrent Juris Doctor and Master of Public Service Candidate at the William H. Bowen School of Law and the Clinton School of Public Service.

In her first year at the Clinton School, Cockrell researched the collateral effects of court debt in Pulaski County as part of a practicum team, and previously graduated with her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with minors in Legal Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Criminal Justice.