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U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Tennessee: Judges of all Districts
Number of judges: 66
McNairy, John (1797-1833)
Brown, Morgan Welles (1834-1853)
Humphreys, West Hughes (1853-1862)
Trigg, Connally Findlay (1862-1880)
Hammond, Eli Shelby (1878-1904)
Key, David McKendree (1880-1895)
Clark, Charles Dickens (1895-1908)
McCall, John Ethridge (1905-1920)
Sanford, Edward Terry (1908-1923)
Ross, John William (1921-1925)
Gore, John J. (1923-1939)
Hicks, Xenophon (1923-1928)
Anderson, Harry Bennett (1925-1935)
Taylor, George Caldwell (1928-1952)
Martin, John Donelson, Sr. (1935-1940)
Darr, Leslie Rogers (1939-1967)
Davies, Elmer David (1939-1957)
Boyd, Marion Speed (1940-1988)
Taylor, Robert Love (1949-1987)
Miller, William Ernest (1955-1970)
Wilson, Frank Wiley (1961-1982)
Brown, Bailey (1961-1979)
Gray, Frank, Jr. (1961-1978)
Neese, Charles Gelbert (1961-1989)
McRae, Robert Malcolm, Jr. (1966-2004)
Morton, Leland Clure (1970-1998)
Wellford, Harry Walker (1970-1982)
Wiseman, Thomas Anderton, Jr. (1978-2020)
Horton, Odell (1980-2006)
Nixon, John Trice (1980-2019)
Milburn, Herbert Theodore (1983-1984)
Gibbons, Julia Smith (1983-2002)
Hull, Thomas Gray (1983-2008)
Higgins, Thomas Aquinas (1984-2018)
Jarvis, James Howard II (1984-2007)
Edgar, Robert Allan (1985-present)
Todd, James Dale (1985-present)
Turner, Jerome (1987-2000)
Jordan, Robert Leon (1988-2024)
McCalla, Jon Phipps (1992-present)
Echols, Robert L. (1992-2010)
Collier, Curtis Lynn (1995-present)
Campbell, Todd J. (1995-2021)
Donald, Bernice Bouie (1995-2011)
Trauger, Aleta Arthur (1998-present)
Haynes, William Joseph, Jr. (1999-2017)
Mays, Samuel H., Jr. (2002-present)
Phillips, Thomas W. (2002-present)
Breen, J. Daniel (2003-present)
Varlan, Thomas A. (2003-present)
Greer, J. Ronnie (2003-present)
Mattice, Harry Sandlin, Jr. (2005-2021)
Anderson, Stanley Thomas (2008-present)
Sharp, Kevin Hunter (2011-2017)
Fowlkes, John Thomas, Jr. (2012-present)
Reeves, Pamela Lynn (2014-2020)
Lipman, Sheryl Halle (2014-present)
McDonough, Travis Randall (2015-present)
Crenshaw, Waverly David, Jr. (2016-present)
Campbell, William Lynn, Jr. (2018-present)
Parker, Thomas Lee Robinson (2018-present)
Richardson, Eli Jeremy (2018-present)
Norris, Mark Saalfield, Sr. (2018-present)
Corker, Clifton Leland (2019-present)
Crytzer, Katherine Amber (2020-present)
Atchley, Charles Edward, Jr. (2020-present)