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U.S. District Court in North Carolina
U.S. District Judges for North Carolina, 1790-1872(may beincomplete!)
JohnStokes 1790JohnSitgreaves 1790-94JohnSitgreaves 1797-1801AsaBiggs 1858-61GeorgeWashington Brooks 1865-72
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Albemarle, Cape Fear & PampticoDistricts of North Carolina, 1801-57(may beincomplete!)
JohnSitgreaves 1801-02HenryPotter 1802-57
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Edenton, New Bern & WilmingtonDistricts of North Carolina, 1794-97(may beincomplete!)
JohnSitgreaves 1794-97
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of North Carolina,1872-2017(may be incomplete!)
GeorgeWashington Brooks 1872-82AugustusSherrill Seymour 1882-97ThomasRichard Purnell 1897-1908IsaacM. Meekins 1925-45AlgernonL. Butler 1959-75JohnD. Larkins, Jr. 1967FranklinTaylor Dupree, Jr. 1970-83WilliamEarl Britt 1980-97TerrenceWilliam Boyle 1984-JamesC. Dever III 2005-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of North Carolina,1957-2017(may be incomplete!)
EdwinM. Stanley 1957-71L.Richardson Preyer 1961-63EugeneAndrew Gordon 1964-82HiramHamilton Ward 1972-88RichardCannon Erwin 1980-92FrankWilliam Bullock, Jr. 1982-JamesA. Beaty, Jr. 1994-ThomasD. Schroeder 2008-CatherineCaldwell Eagles 2010-LorettaCopeland Biggs 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of North Carolina,1898-2017(may be incomplete!)
HamiltonG. Ewart 1898-99HamiltonG. Ewart 1899-1900JamesE. Boyd 1900-19EdwinY. Webb 1919-48DavidE. Henderson 1948-49J.Braxton Craven, Jr. 1961-66JamesB. McMillan 1968-89DavidBryan Sentelle 1985-87GrahamCalder Mullen 1990-2005H.Brent McKnight 2003-04RobertJames Conrad, Jr. 2005-MaxOliver Cogburn, Jr. 2011-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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