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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Succession Chart

March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	January 25, 1899 30 Stat. 803	June 10, 1930 46 Stat. 538	May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584	December 14, 1942 56 Stat. 1050	February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80
Pardee, Don A. 1891-1919	McCormick, Andrew P. 1892-1916	Shelby, David D. 1899-1914	Hutcheson, Joseph C., Jr. 1931-1964	McCord, Leon C. 1938-1951	Waller, Curtis L. 1943-1950	Tuttle, Elbert P. 1954-1968	Gewin, Walter P. 1961-1976
King, Alexander C. 1920-1924	Batts, Robert L. 1917-1919	Walker, Richard W. 1914-1930	Thornberry, W. Homer 1965-1978	Rives, Richard T. 1951-1966	Strum, Louie W. 1950-1954	Morgan, Lewis R. 1968-1978	Vance, Robert S.¹ 1977-1981
Foster, Rufus E. 1925-1942	Bryan, Nathan P. 1920-1935	Sibley, Samuel H. 1931-1949	Garza, Reynaldo G. 1979-1982	Godbold, John C.¹ 1966-1981	Jones, Warren L. 1955-1966	Kravitch, Phyllis A.¹ 1979-1981
Lee, Elmo P. 1943-1949	Holmes, Edwin R. 1936-1954	Russell, Robert L. 1949-1955	Higginbotham, Patrick E. 1982-2006		Dyer, David W. 1966-1976
Borah, Wayne G. 1949-1956	Cameron, Benjamin F. 1955-1964	Brown, John R. 1955-1984	Elrod, Jennifer W. 2007-		Fay, Peter T.¹ 1976-1981
Wisdom, John M. 1957-1977	Coleman, James P. 1965-1981	Hill, Robert M. 1984-1987
Rubin, Alvin B. 1977-1989	Jolly, E. Grady 1982-2017	Wiener, Jacques L., Jr. 1990-2010
Barksdale, Rhesa H. 1990-2009	Wilson, Cory T. 2020-	Higginson, Stephen A. 2011-
Graves, James E., Jr. 2011-

May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Bell, Griffin B. 1961-1976	Goldberg, Irving L. 1966-1980	Ainsworth, Robert A., Jr. 1966-1981	Simpson, John M. B. 1966-1975	Clayton, Claude F. 1967-1969	Carswell, G. Harrold 1969-1970	Ingraham, Joe M. 1969-1973	Johnson, Frank M., Jr.¹ 1979-1981
Hill, James C.¹ 1976-1981	Williams, Jerre S. 1980-1990	Davis, W. Eugene 1983-2016	Tjoflat, Gerald B.¹ 1975-1981	Clark, Charles 1969-1992	Roney, Paul H.¹ 1970-1981	Gee, Thomas G. 1973-1991
	DeMoss, Harold R., Jr. 1991-2007	Duncan, Stuart K. 2018-		Dennis, James L. 1995-2022		Benavides, Fortunato P. 1994-2012
	Haynes, Catharina 2008-			Douglas, Dana M. 2022-		Costa, Gregg J. 2014-2022
						Ramirez, Irma C. 2023-

October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Henderson, Albert J.¹ 1979-1981	Anderson, R. Lanier, III¹ 1979-1981	King, Carolyn D. 1979-2013	Politz, Henry A. 1979-1999	Hatchett, Joseph W.¹ 1979-1981	Reavley, Thomas M. 1979-1990	Tate, Albert, Jr. 1979-1986	Johnson, Samuel D., Jr. 1979-1991
		Ho, James C. 2018-	Pickering, Charles W., Sr. 2004		Garza, Emilio M. 1991-2012	Duhe, John M., Jr. 1988-1999	Parker, Robert M. 1994-2002
			Southwick, Leslie 2007-		Willett, Don R. 2018-	Clement, Edith B. 2001-2018	Prado, Edward C. 2003-2018
						Engelhardt, Kurt D. 2018-	Oldham, Andrew S. 2018-

October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Clark, Thomas A.¹ 1979-1981	Garwood, William L. 1981-1997	Jones, Edith H. 1985-	Smith, Jerry E. 1987-	Stewart, Carl E. 1994-
	Richman, Priscilla 2005-
1. The act of October 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 1994, transferred these judgeships to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, effective October 1, 1981.

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