On the evening of March 9th, 2012, Jerry Yarnell, master artist, who's television program "Paint This With Jerry Yarnell" is seen by a countless audience on PBS, was deputized in his Skiatook, Oklahoma studio as honorary Deputy Marshal of Dodge City, Kansas by Dodge City's Marshal Allen D. Bailey. In attendance were several of his staff, friends, students, his Mother Mary, and his Father Joe.