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U.S. District Court in Georgia
U.S. District Judges for Georgia, 1801-39(may beincomplete!)
WilliamStephens 1801-18JeremiahLa Touche Cuyler 1821-39
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of Georgia,1926-2017(may be incomplete!)
WilliamJosiah Tilson 1926-28BascomS. Deaver 1928-36AbrahamBenjamin Conger 1949-53WilliamA. Bootle 1954-72WilburDawson Owens, Jr. 1972-95DurossFitzpatrick 1985-2001W.Louis Sands 1994-2014LeslieJoyce Abrams 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of Georgia,1865-2017(may be incomplete!)
JohnErskine 1865-82HenryKent McCay 1882-86WilliamTruslow Newman 1886-1920SamuelHale Sibley 1919-31EmoryMarvin Underwood 1931-48RobertLee Russell 1940-49M.Neil Andrews 1949-50BoydSloan 1951-65LewisR. Morgan 1961-68SidneyO. Smith, Jr. 1965-74NewellEdenfield 1967-81AlbertJohn Henderson 1968-79CharlesA. Moye, Jr. 1970-88WilliamClark O'Kelley 1970-96RichardCameron Freeman 1971-91HaroldLloyd Murphy 1977-2017MarvinHerman Shoob 1979-91GeorgeErnest Tidwell 1979-99RobertH. Hall 1979-90HoraceT. Ward 1979-93J.Owen Forrester 1981-2004JackTarpley Camp, Jr. 1988-2008JulieE. Carnes 1992-2014ClarenceCooper 1994-2009RichardW. Story 1998-BeverlyMartin 2000-10WilliamS. Duffey, Jr. 2004-TimothyC. Batten, Sr. 2006-LeighMartin May 2014-MarkHoward Cohen 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of Georgia,1865-2017(may be incomplete!)
JohnErskine 1865-83EmorySpeer 1885-1918WilliamWallace Lambdin 1915-16WilliamHale Barrett 1922-41A.B. Lovett 1941-45FrankM. Scarlett 1946-68AlexanderAtkinson Lawrence, Jr. 1968-78AnthonyA. Alaimo 1971-91BerryAvant Edenfield 1978-2006DudleyHollingsworth Bowen, Jr. 1979-WilliamT. Moore, Jr. 1994-2017JamesRandal Hall 2008-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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