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

March 3, 1891
26 Stat. 826 		March 3, 1891
26 Stat. 826 		June 18, 1910
36 Stat. 5391 		September 14, 1922
42 Stat. 837 		May 19, 1961
75 Stat. 80 		May 19, 1961
75 Stat. 80 		March 18, 1966
80 Stat. 75 		March 18, 1966
80 Stat. 75
Bond, Hugh L.
1891-1893		 Goff, Nathan
1892-1913		 Knapp, Martin A.
1916-1923		 Rose, John C.
1922-1927		 Bryan, Albert V.
1961-1972		 Bell, J. Spencer
1961-1967		 Winter, Harrison L.
1966-1990		 Craven, J. Braxton, Jr.
1966-1977
Simonton, Charles H.
1893-1904		 Woods, Charles A.
1913-1925		   Northcott, Elliott
1927-1939		 Widener, H. Emory, Jr.
1972-2007		 Butzner, John D., Jr.
1967-1982		 Niemeyer, Paul V.
1990-		 Phillips, J. Dickson, Jr.
1978-1994
Pritchard, Jeter C.
1904-1921		 Parker, John J.
1925-1958		   Dobie, Armistead M.
1939-1956		 Keenan, Barbara M.
2010-2021		 Wilkinson, J. Harvie, III
1984-		   Wynn, James A., Jr.
2010-
Waddill, Edmund, Jr.
1921-1931		 Boreman, Herbert S.
1959-1971		   Haynsworth, Clement F., Jr.
1957-1981		 Heytens, Toby J.
2021-		      
Soper, Morris A.
1931-1955		 Field, John A., Jr.
1971-1976		   Chapman, Robert F.
1981-1991		        
Sobeloff, Simon E.
1956-1970		 Hall, Kenneth K.
1976-1998		   Williams, Karen J.
1992-2009		        
Russell, Donald S.
1971-1998		 King, Robert B.
1998-		   Floyd, Henry F.
2011-2021		        
Traxler, William B., Jr.
1998-2018		     Benjamin, DeAndrea G.
2023-		        
Quattlebaum, A. Marvin
2018-		              
October 20, 1978
92 Stat. 1629 		October 20, 1978
92 Stat. 1629 		October 20, 1978
92 Stat. 1629 		July 10, 1984
98 Stat. 333 		December 1, 1990
104 Stat. 5089 		December 1, 1990
104 Stat. 5089 		December 1, 1990
104 Stat. 5089 		December 1, 1990
104 Stat. 5089
Murnaghan, Francis D., Jr.
1979-2000		 Sprouse, James M.
1979-1992		 Ervin, Samuel J., III
1980-1999		 Sneeden, Emory M.
1984-1986		 Hamilton, Clyde H.
1991-1999		 Luttig, J. Michael
1991-2006		 Motz, Diana J. G.
1994-2022		 Gregory, Roger L.
2000-
Davis, Andre M.
2009-2014		 Michael, M. Blane
1993-2011		 Duncan, Allyson K.
2003-2019		 Wilkins, William W.
1986-2007		 Shedd, Dennis W.
2002-2018		 Agee, G. Steven
2008-		 Berner, Nicole G.
2024-		  
Harris, Pamela A.
2014-		 Thacker, Stephanie D.
2012-		 Rushing, Allison J.
2019-		 Diaz, Albert
2010-		 Richardson, Julius N.
2018-		      
1. The act of June 18, 1910, 36 Stat. 539, created the Commerce Court and provided for the Chief Justice of the United States to assign each of its five judges to a judicial circuit for simultaneous service on the U.S. circuit courts and U.S. courts of appeals. In accordance with the statute, Chief Justice Edward D. White assigned Martin Knapp to the Second Circuit. In 1916, Judge Knapp was reassigned to the Fourth Circuit.

 

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