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U.S. District Court in Tennessee
U.S. District Judges for Tennessee, 1797-1853(may beincomplete!)
JohnMcNairy 1797-1802MorganWelles Brown 1834-53
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Tennessee,1802-2017(may be incomplete!)
JohnMcNairy 1802-33WestHughes Humphreys 1853-62ConnallyFindlay Trigg 1862-80CharlesDickens Clark 1895-1908EdwardT. Sanford 1908-23LeslieRogers Darr 1939-61FrankWiley Wilson 1961-82HerbertTheodore Milburn 1983-84ThomasGray Hull 1983-2002JamesH. Jarvis II 1984-2002RobertAllan Edgar 1985-2005CurtisLynn Collier 1995-2014HarrySandlin Mattice, Jr. 2005-TravisRandall McDonough 2015-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Middle District of Tennessee,1853-2017(may be incomplete!)
WestHughes Humphreys 1853-62ConnallyFindlay Trigg 1862-80CharlesDickens Clark 1895-1908EdwardT. Sanford 1908-23LeslieRogers Darr 1939-40ElmerDavid Davies 1939-57WilliamErnest Miller 1955-70L.Clure Morton 1970-84RobertL. Echols 1992-2007WilliamJoseph Haynes, Jr. 1999-2014KevinHunter Sharp 2011-17
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Tennessee,1802-2017(may be incomplete!)
JohnMcNairy 1802-33WestHughes Humphreys 1853-62ConnallyFindlay Trigg 1862-78EliShelby Hammond 1878-1904JohnE. McCall 1905-20HarryBennett Anderson 1926-35JohnDonelson Martin, Sr. 1935-40MarionS. Boyd 1940-66BaileyBrown 1961-79RobertMalcolm McRae, Jr. 1966-86HarryWalker Wellford 1970-82OdellHorton 1980-95JeromeTurner 1987-2000JonPhipps McCalla 1992-2013BerniceBouie Donald 1995-2011SamuelH. Mays, Jr. 2002-15J.Daniel Breen 2003-17StanleyThomas Anderson 2008-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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