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U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee: Judges
Number of judges: 24
Brown, Morgan Welles (1839-1853)
Humphreys, West Hughes (1853-1862)
Trigg, Connally Findlay (1862-1880)
Key, David McKendree (1880-1895)
Clark, Charles Dickens (1895-1908)
Sanford, Edward Terry (1908-1923)
Gore, John J. (1923-1939)
Hicks, Xenophon (1923-1928)
Darr, Leslie Rogers (1939-1940)
Davies, Elmer David (1939-1957)
Miller, William Ernest (1955-1970)
Gray, Frank, Jr. (1961-1978)
Morton, Leland Clure (1970-1998)
Wiseman, Thomas Anderton, Jr. (1978-2020)
Nixon, John Trice (1980-2019)
Higgins, Thomas Aquinas (1984-2018)
Echols, Robert L. (1992-2010)
Campbell, Todd J. (1995-2021)
Trauger, Aleta Arthur (1998-present)
Haynes, William Joseph, Jr. (1999-2017)
Sharp, Kevin Hunter (2011-2017)
Crenshaw, Waverly David, Jr. (2016-present)
Campbell, William Lynn, Jr. (2018-present)
Richardson, Eli Jeremy (2018-present)