Crittenden County (Arkansas) Veterans Service Office

What it is. An Arkansas county veterans service officer is employed by the county judge and paid from the Quorum Court's budget, trained and accredited through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and partly reimbursed by the State under section 20-81-106: one dollar for every two the county spends, up to $3,600 a year, or $4,800 in a county with more than 2,500 veterans, plus $500 a quarter each for VA accreditation and for access to VA's benefits system; see the Arkansas entry on the Department and county service officers. Help with a claim is free. Crittenden County's site has no page of its own for the office; the County Judge's page says "The office of Veteran's Affairs falls within the office of the County Judge". Who and where. The Department of Veterans Affairs' county finder (last updated August 19, 2026) lists Mickey Littlejohn at 100 Court St., Marion, AR 72364, (870) 739-4148, Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with no email. The County Judge, Woody Wheeless, is at 100 Court Square, Marion, (870) 739-3200. Crittenden is in the Department's District 3, whose District Veterans Service Officer is Ric Bolton in Salem, (870) 253-9767. The Quorum Court. The Court meets on the third Tuesday of each month at 9:00 a.m. Its February 17, 2026 agenda carried an appropriation ordinance for several offices that included "Veteran's Services"; the site posts the agenda but not the ordinance, the minutes or the budget, so the office's 2026 appropriation is not published.