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Robert Allan Edgar

Nonpartisan

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Tenure

2005 - Present

Years in position

20

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Years in office: 1985 - 2005

Education

Bachelor's

Davidson College, 1962

Law

Duke University School of Law, 1965

Personal

Birthplace

Munising, MI

Robert Allan Edgar is anArticle III federal judge for theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. He joined the Tennessee court in 1985 after being nominated by PresidentRonald Reagan (R).^[1] He assumedsenior status on October 7, 2005.^[2]

Early life and education

Edgar graduated from Davidson College inNorth Carolina with his bachelor's degree in 1962 and later graduated from Duke University School of Law with hisJ.D. degree in 1965. After law school, Edgar served on active duty in the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1967.^[2]

Professional career

Edgar served in private practice inChattanooga from 1967 to 1985. Edgar also served in the Tennessee State House of Representatives from 1970 to 1972.^[2]

Judicial career

Eastern District of Tennessee

On the recommendation of Congressman John Duncan, Sr., Edgar was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 26, 1985, to a seat vacated byHerbert Milburn as Milburn went onsenior status. Edgar was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 15, 1985, on a Senate vote and received commission onApril 16, 1985. Edgar served as the chief judge of the court from 1998 to 2005 before assuming senior status onOctober 7, 2005.^[2]

Western District of Michigan

Edgar transferred to the Western District of Michigan in 2011. According to the court historical society newsletter, "His [Edgar's] joint service comes about through the judiciary’s designation process–in his case, designation by the Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit. Both districts are within the Sixth Circuit. Judge Edgar’s designations have no time limit, unlike the special designations with set periods of time that are issued for a judge to try a particular case in another district."^[1]

See also

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
• United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan

External links

Suggest a link

• Robert Allan Edgar's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
Active judges	Chief Judge: Travis Randall McDonough  •  Thomas Varlan  •  Clifton L. Corker  •  Charles Atchley  •  Katherine Crytzer
Senior judges	Curtis Collier  •  Robert Leon Jordan  •  J. Ronnie Greer (Federal Judge)  •  Thomas W. Phillips  •  Robert Allan Edgar (Tennessee)  •
Magistrate judges	Susan K. Lee (Tennessee)  •  Christopher H. Steger  •  Cynthia Wyrick  •  Debra Poplin  •  Jill McCook  •
Former Article III judges	Harry Mattice  •  John McNairy  •  Morgan Welles Brown  •  Herbert Milburn  •  West Hughes Humphreys  •  Connally Findlay Trigg  •  David McKendree Key  •  Charles Dickens Clark  •  Edward Terry Sanford  •  Xenophon Hicks  •  George Caldwell Taylor  •  Leslie Darr  •  Frank Wiley Wilson  •  Thomas Hull  •  James Jarvis (Tennessee)  •  Charles Neese  •  Robert Taylor (Federal judge)  •  Pamela L. Reeves  •
Former Chief judges

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Active judges	Chief Judge: Hala Jarbou  •  Jane Beckering  •  Paul Maloney  •  Robert Jonker
Senior judges	Gordon Quist  •  Janet Neff  •  Robert Holmes Bell  •
Magistrate judges	Ray Kent  •  Phillip J. Green  •  Maarten Vermaat  •  Sally Berens  •
Former Article III judges	Wendell Miles  •  Richard Enslen  •  David McKeague  •  Benjamin Gibson  •  Douglas Hillman  •  Albert Engel  •  Solomon Lewis Withey  •  W. Wallace Kent  •  Henry Franklin Severens  •  George Wanty  •  Loyal Edwin Knappen  •  Arthur Carter Denison  •  Clarence Sessions  •  Fred Morton Raymond  •  Noel Fox  •  Raymond Starr  •
Former Chief judges	Wendell Miles  •  Richard Enslen  •  Robert Jonker  •  Robert Holmes Bell  •  Benjamin Gibson  •  Douglas Hillman  •  W. Wallace Kent  •  Noel Fox  •  Raymond Starr  •

v • e Federal judges nominated byRonald Reagan
1981	Bartlett •Beam •Becker •Bork •Cacheris •Cardamone •Chapman •Coughenour •Cox •Crow •Cyr •Doumar •Eschbach •Forrester •Garwood •Gibson •Glasser •Hall •Hamilton •Head •Jones •Kiser •Krenzler •Lee •Magnuson •McLaughlin •Miner •Moore •Nowlin •O'Connor •Pierce •Posner •Potter •Russell •Ryan •Shabaz •Sprizzo •Stevens •Waters •Wilhoit •Wilkins •Winter
1982	Acker •Acosta •Altimari •Bell •Bissell •Black •Bullock •Caldwell •Coffey •Contie •Coyle •Dowd •Fagg •Fong •Fox •Gadbois •Gibson •Ginsburg •Hart •Higginbotham •Hogan •Irving •Jackson •Jolly •Kanne •Kovachevich •Krupansky •Lynch •Mansmann •McNamara •Mencer •Mentz •Mihm •Moody •Nordberg •Paul •Pieras •Plunkett •Porfilio •Potter •Pratt •Rafeedie •Restani •Roberts •Scalia •Selya •Telesca •Wellford
1983	Baldock •Barbour •Barry •Bowman •Carman •Carter •Curran •Davis •Dorsey •Feldman •Fish •Flaum •Gibbons •Hallanan •Harris •Hinojosa •Hull •Hupp •Katz •Keenan •Kelly •Kram •Laffitte •Limbaugh, Sr. •Limbaugh, Sr. •Milburn •Nesbitt •Nevas •O'Neill •Rymer •Sharp •Starr •Vinson •Vukasin •Wexler • Woods
1984	Barker •Beezer •Biggers •Billings •Bissell •Boyle •Brewster •Browning •DiCarlo •Duhe •Garcia •George •Hall •Hargrove •Higgins •Hill •Holland •Ideman •Jarvis •Keller •Leavy •Lee •Legge •Leisure •Little •Livaudais •Longobardi •McKibben •Milburn •Newman •Norgle •Prado •Rea •Rosenblatt •Rovner •Scirica •Smith, Jr. •Sneeden •Stotler •Suhrheinrich •Torruella •Wiggins •Wilkinson
1985	Alley •Altimari •Anderson •Aquilino •Archer •Arnold •Baldock •Batchelder •Battey •Broomfield •Brown •Brown •Brunetti •Buckley •Cobb •Conmy •Cowen •Davidson •Dimmick •Duff •Easterbrook •Edgar •Farnan •Fernandez •Fitzpatrick •Fuste •Greene •Gunn •Guy •Hall •Hilton •Holderman •Hughes •Johnson •Jones •Korman •Kozinski •La Plata •Leinenweber •Letts •Lovell •Ludwig •Maloney •Mansmann •Marcus •McDonald •Meredith •Miller •Mills •Miner •Motz •Nelson •Noonan •Porfilio •Revercomb •Rhoades •Ripple •Rodriguez •Rosenbaum •Roth •Ryan •Sam •Scott •Sentelle •Silberman •Sporkin •Stanton •Stapleton •Strand •Strom •Tacha •Tevrizian •Thompson •Todd •Tsoucalas •Walker •Walter •Weber •Williams •Wilson •Wingate •Wolf •Wollman •Young •Zloch
1986	Anderson •Boggs •Bryan •Cedarbaum •Cholakis •Conway •Davies •Dearie •Dubina •Duggan •Edmondson •Fawsett •Fitzwater •Gex •Graham •Hackett •Hansen •Henderson •Hittner •Howard •Jensen •Kay •Kleinfeld •Kosik •Lagueux •Lechner •Magill •Mahoney •Manion •McAvoy •McQuade •Norris •O'Scannlain •Rehnquist •Ryskamp •Scalia •Selya •Simpson •Smalkin •Spencer •Stiehl •Wilkins •Williams •Woodlock •Zatkoff
1987	Alesia •Beam •Bell •Conboy •Cowen •Cummings •Daronco •Doty •Dwyer •Ebel •Ellis •Gadola •Gawthrop •Greenberg •Harrington •Howard •Hoyt •Hutchinson •Kanne •Kelly •Larimer •Leavy •Lew •Marsh •Mayer •McKinney •Michel •Mukasey •Musgrave •Niemeyer •Parker •Phillips •Politan •Pro •Raggi •Reasoner •Reed •Scirica •Sentelle • Smith •Smith •Stadtmueller •Standish •Tinder •Torres •Trott •Turner •Van Antwerpen •Voorhees •Webb •Whipple •Wolin •Wolle •Wood •Zagel
1988	Arcara •Babcock •Brorby •Butler •Cambridge •Camp •Conlon •Cox •Dubois •Duhe •Ezra •Forester •Friedman •Garza •Hutton •Jordan •Kennedy •Lake •Lamberth •Lifland •Lozano •Marovich •Nygaard •Patterson •Schell •Smith •Smith •Tilley •Waldman •Zilly