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U.S. District Court in Kentucky
U.S. District Judges for Kentucky, 1789-1923(may beincomplete!)
HarryInnes 1789-1816JohnBoyle 1827-34ThomasB. Monroe 1834-61BlandBallard 1861-79WilliamHercules Hays 1879-80JohnW. Barr 1880-99WalterEvans 1899-1923
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Kentucky,1901-2013(may be incomplete!)
AndrewMcConnell January Cochran 1901-34MacSwinford 1937-75BernardT. Moynahan, Jr. 1963-84H.David Hermansdorfer 1972-81EugeneE. Siler, Jr. 1975-91ScottElgin Reed 1979-88WilliamOdis Bertelsman 1979-G.Wix Unthank 1980-88KarlSpillman Forester 1988-2005JenniferB. Coffman 1993-2013DavidL. Bunning 2002-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Kentucky,1924-2017(may be incomplete!)
CharlesHarwood Moorman 1924-25ElwoodHamilton 1935-38MacSwinford 1937-75ShackelfordMiller, Jr. 1939-45RoyM. Shelbourne 1946-64HenryL. Brooks 1954-69RhodesBratcher 1970-77CharlesM. Allen 1971-85EugeneE. Siler, Jr. 1975-91EdwardHuggins Johnstone 1977-93ThomasAustin Ballantine, Jr. 1977-91RonaldE. Meredith 1985-94CharlesRalph Simpson III 1986-2013JohnGilpin Heyburn II 1992-2014JenniferB. Coffman 1993-2013JosephH. McKinley, Jr. 1995-GregoryN. Stivers 2014-DavidJason Hale 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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