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

U.S. District Court for the District of Virginia
September 24, 1789 1 Stat. 73	June 11, 1864 13 Stat. 124²
Griffin, Cyrus 1789-1810	Underwood, John C.³ 1864-1871
Tyler, John 1811-1813
Tucker, St. George¹ 1813-1819
1. The act of February 4, 1819, 3 Stat. 478, transferred this judgeship to the Eastern District of Virginia. 2. The act of June 11, 1864, 13 Stat. 124, transferred this judgeship from the Eastern District of Virginia. 3. The act of February 3, 1871, 16 Stat. 403, transferred this judgeship to the Eastern District of Virginia.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
February 4, 1819 3 Stat. 478¹	February 3, 1871 16 Stat. 403³	August 3, 1935 49 Stat. 508	February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	June 2, 1970 84 Stat. 294	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Tucker, St. George 1819-1825	Underwood, John C. 1871-1873	Pollard, Robert N. 1936-1947	Hoffman, Walter E. 1954-1974	Kellam, Richard B. 1967-1981	MacKenzie, John A. 1967-1985	Bryan, Albert V., Jr. 1971-1991	Williams, Richard L. 1980-1992
Hay, George 1825-1830	Hughes, Robert W. 1874-1898	Bryan, Albert V. 1947-1961	Clarke, J. Calvitt, Jr. 1974-1991	Doumar, Robert G. 1981-1996	Spencer, James R. 1986-2014	Brinkema, Leonie M. 1993-	Jackson, Raymond A. 1993-2021
Barbour, Philip P. 1830-1836	Waddill, Edmund, Jr. 1898-1921	Butzner, John D., Jr. 1962-1967	Payne, Robert E. 1992-2007	Friedman, Jerome B. 1997-2010	Lauck, M. Hannah 2014-		Walker, Jamar K. 2023-
Daniel, Peter V. 1836-1841	Groner, D. Lawrence 1921-1931	Merhige, Robert R., Jr. 1967-1986	Gibney, John A., Jr. 2010-2021	Allen, Arenda L. W. 2011-
Mason, John Y. 1841-1844	Way, Luther B. 1931-1943	Ellis, Thomas S., III 1987-2007	Hanes, Elizabeth W. 2022-
Halyburton, James D. 1844-1861	Hutcheson, C. Sterling 1944-1959	Davis, Mark S. 2008-
Underwood, John C.² 1863-1864	Lewis, Oren R. 1960-1974
	Warriner, D. Dortch 1974-1986
	Smith, Rebecca B. 1989-2019
	Young, Roderick C. 2020-

October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089	December 21, 2000 114 Stat. 2762
Cacheris, James C. 1981-1998	Hilton, Claude M. 1985-2005	Morgan, Henry C., Jr. 1992-2004	Hudson, Henry E. 2002-2018
Lee, Gerald B. 1998-2017	O'Grady, Liam 2007-2020	Kelley, Walter D., Jr. 2004-2008	Novak, David J. 2019-
Alston, Rossie D., Jr. 2019-	Giles, Patricia T. 2021-	Trenga, Anthony J. 2008-2021
		Nachmanoff, Michael S. 2021-
1. The act of February 4, 1819, 3 Stat. 478, transferred this judgeship from the District of Virginia. 2. The act of June 11, 1864, 13 Stat. 124, transferred this judgeship to the District of Virginia. 3. The act of February 3, 1871, 16 Stat. 403, transferred this judgeship from the District of Virginia.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
February 4, 1819 3 Stat. 478	February 3, 1871 16 Stat. 403	May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584	September 2, 1957 (effective November 6, 1967) 71 Stat. 586⁴	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Jackson, John G. 1819-1825	Rives, Alexander 1871-1882	Roberts, Floyd H. 1938-1939	Widener, H. Emory, Jr. 1969-1972	Michael, James H., Jr. 1980-1995	Kiser, Jackson L. 1981-1997
Pendleton, Philip C. 1825	Paul, John 1883-1901	Dobie, Armistead M. 1939-1940	Turk, James C. 1972-2002	Jones, James P. 1996-2021	Moon, Norman K. 1997-2010
Caldwell, Alexander 1825-1839	McDowell, Henry C. 1901-1931	Barksdale, Alfred D.² 1939-1957	Conrad, Glen E. 2003-2017	Ballou, Robert S. 2023-	Urbanski, Michael F. 2011-2024
Pennybacker, Isaac S. 1839-1845	Paul, John, Jr. 1932-1958	Thompson, Roby C. 1957-1960	Cullen, Thomas T. 2020-		Yoon, Jasmine H. 2024-
Brockenbrough, John W. 1846-1861	Dalton, Ted 1959-1976	Michie, Thomas J.³ 1961-1973
Jackson, John J., Jr.¹ 1861-1864	Williams, Glen M. 1976-1988
	Wilson, Samuel G. 1990-2014
	Dillon, Elizabeth K. 2014-
1. The act of June 11, 1864, 13 Stat. 124, transferred this judgeship to the District of West Virginia. 2. Alfred Barksdale received a recess appointment to the court on December 19, 1939, although his predecessor, Armistead Dobie, did not formally terminate his service on the district court until February 8, 1940, when he began service on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 3. On November 6, 1967, the president certified Thomas Michie involuntarily as disabled in accordance with the act of September 2, 1957, 71 Stat. 586, 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 September 2, 1957, 71 Stat. 586, was made applicable to the Western District of Virginia on November 6, 1967, when the president certified Judge Michie as disabled. Emory Widener was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute.

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