- (a) The Arkansas Psychology Board is composed of nine (9) members appointed by the Governor of the State of Arkansas to staggered terms of five (5) years.
(b) Appointments for all positions except the consumer representative and the senior citizen representative will be made from a list of nominees submitted to the Governor by:
- (1) The Arkansas Psychological Association;
- (2) The Arkansas Association of Psychological Examiners; or
- (3) Other interested Arkansas-licensed psychologists or psychological examiners as documented by a list that has attached thereto the signatures of at least twenty (20) licensed psychologists or psychological examiners.
(c)
(1)
- (A) Membership of the board will be composed of:
(i) One (1) academic psychologist engaged in full-time teaching of psychology at the graduate level at an approved institute of higher learning or holding an active faculty appointment in an American Psychological Association-approved predoctoral or post-doctoral internship program;
(ii) Four (4) practicing psychologists engaged in the full-time practice of psychology with at least one (1) psychologist engaged in the full-time, private practice of psychology; and
- (iii) Two (2) psychological examiners engaged in the full-time practice of psychology.
- (B) Each psychologist and psychological examiner must have been licensed to practice psychology in Arkansas for at least five (5) years immediately preceding appointment to the board.
- (2) The consumer representative and the senior citizen representative, appointed from the general public, subject to confirmation by the Senate (Arkansas Code § 17-97-201; Acts 1977, No. 113; Acts 1979, No. 939; and Acts 1995, No. 955) who are not actively engaged in or retired from the practice of psychology shall be voting members at-large.