Leslie Darr

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee

Years in office: 1961 - 1967

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Years in office: 1939 - 1961

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United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Years in office: 1939 - 1940

Education

Law

Cumberland University, 1909

Personal

Birthplace

Jasper, TN

Leslie Rogers Darr (1886-1967) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

He was nominated by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on May 24, 1939 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584. He was confirmed by the Senate on May 31st, and received commission onJune 2nd. He served on theMiddle District Court untilNovember 27, 1940. From 1949 to 1961, he was thechief judge of theEastern District Court. OnMarch 15, 1961, he assumedsenior status and continued to serve in this capacity until his death onMay 29, 1967.^[1] Darr was succeeded in this position byFrank Wiley Wilson.

Early life and education

• Cumberland University, LL.B., 1909^[1]

Professional career

• Private practice, Jasper, Tennessee, 1910-1926
• Judge, 18th Circuit Court of Tennessee, 1926-1939^[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of Tennessee

Darr was nominated by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on May 24, 1939 to a seat created by 52 Stat. 584. He was confirmed by the Senate on May 31st, and received commission onJune 2nd. He served on theMiddle District Court untilNovember 27, 1940. From 1949 to 1961, he was thechief judge of theEastern District Court. OnMarch 15, 1961, he assumedsenior status and continued to serve in this capacity until his death onMay 29, 1967.^[1] Darr was succeeded in this position byFrank Wiley Wilson.

External links

• Leslie Darr's Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1940)
1933	Bell •Bratton •Donohoe •FitzHenry •Garrecht •Keefe •Ragon •Stone •Woodrough
1934	Allen •Bowen •Holly •Hulbert •Long •Major •Myers •Rippey •Sullivan
1935	Baldwin •Denman •Faris •Ford •Hamilton •Haney •Holmes •Mahoney •Martin •Mathews •McDuffie •Moore •Roche •A. L. Stephens •H. M. Stephens •Sweeney • Yankwich
1936	Abruzzo •Clancy •Davidson •Davis •Holland •Lederle •Leibell •Ling •Mandelbaum •Maris •Pollard •Thomas •Underwood
1937	Adair •Biggs •Black •Burke •Collet •Druffel •Edgerton •Groner •Healy •Jackson •Jenney •Kloeb •Major •McColloch •Miller •Mize •Murrah •Rice •Stephens •Sullivan •Swinford •Treanor •Trimble •Vinson •Watkins •Williams •Wyche
1938	Clark •Conger •Ford •Hamilton •Laws •Maris •McCord •Murphree •Reed
1939	Allred •Arant •Beaumont •Biddle •Black •Clark •Darr •Davies •Dobie •Douglas •Duffy •Frankfurter •Goldsborough •Huxman •Igoe •Jones •Kalodner •Kerner, Sr. •Lemley •Lumpkin •Magruder •Miller •Morris •Picard •Porterie •Roberts •Rutledge •Walker •Welsh •Whaley •Whitaker •Wilkin
1940	Bard •Barker •Barksdale •Boyd •Broaddus •Caillouet •Campbell •Dobie •Ganey •Goodrich •Harrison •Hartigan •Johnsen •Jones •Leamy •Mahoney •Martin •Murphy •Murrah •O'Connor •Oliver •Pine •Russell •Savage •Schwellenbach •Walker •Waller

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1941-1945)
1941	Bright •Byrnes •Eicher •Frank •Freed •Healey •Jackson •Leahy •Leavy •Lovett •Madden •McAllister •McGuire •Miller •Minton •Moore •Riddick •Rifkind •J. Smith •W. Smith •Stone •Timmerman •Vogel •Waring •Woodbury •Wyzanski
1942	Brennan •Cole •Delehant •Ekwall •Goodman •Hall •Hannay •Keeling •Meaney
1943	Arnold •Chandler •Clark •Duncan •Helvering •Hulen •Lawrence •Lee •McLaughlin •Mullins •Rutledge •Swygert • Waller
1944	Bone •Connor •Graven •Hutcheson •Kennedy •LaBuy •O'Connell •Schweinhaut •Shaw
1945	Brown •Davis •Foley •Laws •Ridge

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Active judges	Chief Judge: William L. Campbell Jr.  •  Aleta Trauger  •  Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.  •  Eli Richardson
Senior judges
Magistrate judges	Barbara Holmes  •  Alistair Newbern  •  Chip Frensley  •
Former Article III judges	Todd Campbell  •  Thomas Wiseman  •  John Nixon  •  Robert Echols  •  Morgan Welles Brown  •  West Hughes Humphreys  •  Connally Findlay Trigg  •  William E. Miller  •  David McKendree Key  •  Charles Dickens Clark  •  Edward Terry Sanford  •  John Gore  •  Xenophon Hicks  •  Leslie Darr  •  Elmer Davies  •  Leland Clure Morton  •  Thomas Higgins (Tennessee)  •  Frank Gray  •  Kevin Hunter Sharp  •
Former Chief judges	Thomas Wiseman  •  John Nixon  •  Robert Echols  •  William E. Miller  •  Elmer Davies  •  Leland Clure Morton  •  Frank Gray  •  Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.  •

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