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U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Georgia: Succession Charts

U.S. District Court for the District of Georgia
September 24, 1789
1 Stat. 73
Pendleton, Nathaniel
1789-1796
Clay, Joseph, Jr.
1796-1801
Stephens, William
1801-1818
Davies, William
1819-1821
Cuyler, Jeremiah L.
1821-1839
Nicoll, John C.1
1839-1848
1. The act of August 11, 1848, 9 Stat. 280, assigned this judgeship to the Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia.

 

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
August 11, 1848
9 Stat. 2801
April 25, 1882
22 Stat. 47
February 25, 1919
(effective ca. July 31, 1919)
40 Stat. 11564
May 24, 1940
54 Stat. 219
August 3, 1949
63 Stat. 493
May 19, 1961
75 Stat. 80
June 2, 1970
84 Stat. 294
June 2, 1970
84 Stat. 294
Nicoll, John C.
1848-1861
McCay, Henry K.
1882-1886
Sibley, Samuel H.
1919-1931
Russell, Robert L.
1940-1949
Andrews, M. Neil
1949-1950
Morgan, Lewis R.
1961-1968
Moye, Charles A., Jr.
1970-1988
O'Kelley, William C.
1970-1996
Erskine, John2
1865-1882
Newman, William T.3
1886-1920
Underwood, E. Marvin5
1931-1948
Hooper, Frank A.
1949-1967
Sloan, William B.
1951-1965
Henderson, Albert J.
1968-1979
Camp, Jack T., Jr.
1988-2008
Story, Richard W.
1998-2018
      Edenfield, Newell
1967-1981
Smith, Sidney O., Jr.
1965-1974
Evans, Orinda D.
1979-2008
Totenberg, Amy M.
2011-2021
Grimberg, Steven D.
2019-
      Forrester, J. Owen
1981-2004
Hill, James C.
1974-1976
Jones, Steve C.
2011-
Geraghty, Sarah E.
2022-
 
      Duffey, William S., Jr.
2004-2018
Murphy, Harold L.
1977-2017
     
      Boulee, Jean-Paul
2019-
Ray, William M. II
2018-
     
June 2, 1970
84 Stat. 294
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
Freeman, Richard C.
1971-1991
Shoob, Marvin H.
1979-1991
Vining, Robert L., Jr.
1979-1996
Tidwell, G. Ernest
1979-1999
Hall, Robert H.
1979-1990
Ward, Horace T.
1979-1993
Cooper, Clarence
1994-2009
Hull, Frank M.
1994-1997
Thrash, Thomas W., Jr.
1997-2021
Martin, Beverly B.
2000-2010
Carnes, Julie E.
1992-2014
Hunt, Willis B., Jr.
1995-2005
Cohen, Mark H.
2014-
Pannell, Charles A., Jr.
1999-2013
Calvert, Victoria M.
2022-
May, Leigh M.
2014-
Brown, Michael L.
2018-
Batten, Timothy C., Sr.
2006-
  Ross, Eleanor L.
2014-
       
1. The act of August 11, 1848, 9 Stat. 280, assigned the judgeship authorized for the District of Georgia by the act of September 24, 1789, 1 Stat. 73, to the Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia.
2. The act of April 25, 1882, 22 Stat. 47, assigned this judgeship to the Southern District of Georgia exclusively.
3. On or about July 31, 1919, the president certified William Newman involuntarily as disabled in accordance with the act of February 25, 1919, 40 Stat. 1156, which entitled the president to appoint an additional judge for the court and provided that no successor to the judge certified as disabled be appointed.
4. The act of February 25, 1919, 40 Stat. 1156, was made applicable to the Northern District of Georgia on or about July 31, 1919, when the president certified William Newman as disabled. Samuel Sibley was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute.
5. The act of May 24, 1940, 54 Stat. 219, authorized a temporary judgeship for the court and provided that the next vacancy in the district not be filled. In accordance with the statute, no successor to Marvin Underwood was appointed.

 

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
August 11, 1848
9 Stat. 2801
March 3, 1915
38 Stat. 959
June 2, 1970
84 Stat. 294
October 20, 1978
92 Stat. 1629
Nicoll, John C.
1848-1861
Lambdin, William W.
1915-1916
Alaimo, Anthony A.
1971-1991
Bowen, Dudley H., Jr.
1979-2006
Erskine, John
1865-1883
Evans, Beverly D., Jr.
1917-1922
Moore, William T., Jr.
1994-2017
Wood, Lisa G.
2007-
Speer, Emory2
1885-1918
Barrett, William H.
1922-1941
Baker, R. Stan
2018-
 
  Lovett, Archibald B.
1941-1945
   
  Scarlett, Francis M.
1946-1968
   
  Lawrence, Alexander A., Jr.
1968-1978
   
  Edenfield, B. Avant
1978-2006
   
  Hall, James R.
2008-
   
1. The act of August 11, 1848, 9 Stat. 280, assigned the judgeship authorized for the District of Georgia by the act of September 24, 1789, 1 Stat. 73, to the Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia.
2. The act of March 3, 1915, 38 Stat. 959, authorized a temporary judgeship for the court and provided that the next vacancy in the existing judgeship not be filled. In accordance with the statute, no successor to Emory Speer was appointed.

 

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
May 28, 1926
44 Stat. 670
March 29, 1949
63 Stat. 16
July 10, 1984
98 Stat. 333
December 1, 1990
104 Stat. 5089
Tilson, William J.
1926-1927
Conger, Abraham B.
1949-1953
Fitzpatrick, Duross
1985-2001
Sands, W. Louis
1994-2014
Tilson, William J.
1927-1928
Bootle, William A.
1954-1972
Royal, C. Ashley
2001-2016
Gardner, Leslie A.
2014-
Deaver, Bascom S.
1928-1944
Owens, Wilbur D., Jr.
1972-1995
Self, Tilman E. III
2018-
 
Davis, T. Hoyt
1945-1961
Lawson, Hugh
1995-2008
   
Elliott, J. Robert
1962-2000
Treadwell, Marc T.
2010-
   
Land, Clay D.
2001-
     

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