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U.S. District Court in Texas
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Texas,1870-2017(may be incomplete!)
JoelC. C. Winch 1870-71AmosMorrill 1872-83ChaunceyB. Sabin 1884-90DavidE. Bryant 1890-1910GordonJ. Russell 1910WilliamLee Estes 1920-30RandolphBryant 1931-51JosephWarren Sheehy 1951-67JoeJ. Fisher 1959-84WilliamM. Steger 1970-87HowellCobb 1985-2001SamB. Hall, Jr. 1985-94PaulN. Brown 1985-2001RichardA. Schell 1988-2015ThadHeartfield 1995-2010LeonardE. Davis 2002-15MarciaA. Crone 2003-MichaelH. Schneider, Sr. 2004-16AmosLouis Mazzant III 2014-RobertWilliam Schroeder III 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of Texas,1879-2017(may be incomplete!)
AndrewP. McCormick 1879-92JohnB. Rector 1892-98EdwardRoscoe Meek 1898-1935JamesC. Wilson 1919-47WilliamH. Atwell 1923-54T.W. Davidson 1936-65JosephBrannon Dooley 1947-66JoeEwing Estes 1955-72SarahTilghman Hughes 1961LeoBrewster 1961-73WilliamMcLaughlin Taylor, Jr. 1966-79HalbertO. Woodward 1968-86RobertMadden Hill 1970-84EldonMahon 1972-89DavidOwen Belew, Jr. 1979-90BarefootSanders 1979-96JerryBuchmeyer 1979-2003RobertB. Maloney 1985-2000SamuelRay Cummings 1987-2014JohnH. McBryde 1990-JorgeAntonio Solis 1991-2016TerryR. Means 1991-2013JaneJ. Boyle 2004-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of Texas,1902-2017(may be incomplete!)
WallerT. Burns 1902-17JosephChappell Hutcheson, Jr. 1918-31T.M. Kennerly 1931JamesV. Allred 1939-42AllenBurroughs Hannay 1942-75JamesV. Allred 1949-59BenClarkson Connally 1949-74ReynaldoGuerra Garza 1961-79JamesLatane Noel, Jr. 1961-76JohnV. Singleton, Jr. 1966-88WoodrowB. Seals 1966-82CarlOlaf Bue, Jr. 1970-87RossN. Sterling 1976-88FinisE. Cowan 1977-79NormanWilliam Black 1979-96GeorgeEdward Cire 1979-85JamesDeAnda 1979-92GeorgeP. Kazen 1979-2009GabrielleAnne Kirk McDonald 1979-88HughGibson 1979-89FilemonVela 1980-2000HaydenWilson Head, Jr. 1981-2009MelindaHarmon 1989-JohnDavid Rainey 1990-2010EwingWerlein, Jr. 1992-2006NancyFriedman Atlas 1995-HildaG. Tagle 1998-2012KeithP. Ellison 1999-RandyCrane 2002-AndrewS. Hanen 2002-MicaelaAlvarez 2004-GrayHampton Miller 2006-DianaSaldana 2011-NelvaGonzales Ramos 2011-GreggJeffrey Costa 2012-14AlfredHomer Bennett 2015-GeorgeCarol Hanks, Jr. 2015-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Texas,1857-2017(may be incomplete!)
ThomasHoward DuVal 1857-80ThomasSheldon Maxey 1888-1916DuValWest 1916-31WilliamR. Smith 1917-24CharlesA. Boynton 1924-47RobertJohnston McMillan 1932-41BenHerbert Rice, Jr. 1945-64R.Ewing Thomason 1947AdrianSpears 1961-79HomerThornberry 1963-65DorwinWallace Suttle 1964-79JohnH. Wood, Jr. 1970-79WilliamS. Sessions 1974-87LuciusBunton 1979-92ClydeFrederick Shannon, Jr. 1980-84HipolitoFrank Garcia 1980-2002WalterS. Smith, Jr. 1984-2016SamSparks 1991-SamuelFrederick Biery, Jr. 1994-2000DavidBriones 1994-PhilipRay Martinez 2002-AliaMoses 2002-RobertJunell 2003-KathleenCardone 2003-FrankMontalvo 2003-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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