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U.S. District Court in Virginia
U.S. District Judges for Virginia, 1789-1819(may beincomplete!)
NathanielPendleton 1789-96CyrusGriffin 1789-1810St.George Tucker 1813-19
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Virginia,1819-2017(may be incomplete!)
St.George Tucker 1819-25PhilipPendleton Barbour 1830-36PeterVivian Daniel 1836-41JohnY. Mason 1841-44JamesDandridge Halyburton 1844-61RobertWilliam Hughes 1874-98EdmundWaddill, Jr. 1908-21D.Lawrence Groner 1921-31LutherB. Way 1931-43RobertNelson Pollard 1936-47SterlingHutcheson 1944-59AlbertV. Bryan 1947-61JohnD. Butzner, Jr. 1962-67RichardBoykin Kellam 1967-81JohnAshton MacKenzie 1967-85RobertReynold Merhige, Jr. 1967-86AlbertV. Bryan, Jr. 1971-91D.Dortch Warriner 1974-86J.Calvitt Clarke, Jr. 1974-91RichardLeroy Williams 1980-92JamesChris Cacheris 1981-98JamesRandolph Spencer 1986-2014ThomasSelby Ellis III 1987-2007RebeccaBeach Smith 1989-HenryCoke Morgan, Jr. 1992-2004LeonieM. Brinkema 1993-JamesChris Cacheris 1998-MarkSteven Davis 2008-ArendaLauretta Wright Allen 2011-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of Virginia,1901-05(may be incomplete!)
JohnJay Jackson, Jr. 1901-05
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Virginia,1819-2017(may be incomplete!)
JohnG. Jackson 1819-25PhilipC. Pendleton 1825AlexanderCaldwell 1825-39JohnWhite Brockenbrough 1846-61JohnJay Jackson, Jr. 1861-64AlexanderRives 1871-82JohnPaul 1883-1901HenryClay McDowell 1901-31FloydH. Roberts 1938-39AlfredDickinson Barksdale 1939-57TedDalton 1959-76ThomasJohnson Michie 1961-73HiramEmory Widener, Jr. 1969-72JamesC. Turk 1972-2002J.Harry Michael, Jr. 1980-95NormanK. Moon 1997-2010GlenEdward Conrad 2003-ElizabethKay Dillon 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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