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Myles A. Hibbler was admitted to practice before the state supreme court on January 26, 1942. He was the son of J.A. Hibbler and practiced with his father in Little Rock (Pulaski County), Arkansas. Myles joined his father, Scipio Jones, J.R. Booker, William A. Booker, and the NAACP (through Thurgood Marshall) in a suit against the Little Rock School District in 1942 on behalf of a Black teacher for equal pay with white teachers. Myles Hibbler died on March 9, 1946.
Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 381 n630, 390-91 (2000); Arkansas Supreme Court Admission Records;