PoliticalGraveyard.com
U.S. District Court in Kentucky
U.S. District Judges for Kentucky, 1789-1923 (may be
incomplete!)
Harry
Innes 1789-1816
John
Boyle 1827-34
Thomas
B. Monroe 1834-61
Bland
Ballard 1861-79
William
Hercules Hays 1879-80
John
W. Barr 1880-99
Walter
Evans 1899-1923
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Kentucky,
1901-2013 (may be incomplete!)
Andrew
McConnell January Cochran 1901-34
Mac
Swinford 1937-75
Bernard
T. Moynahan, Jr. 1963-84
H.
David Hermansdorfer 1972-81
Eugene
E. Siler, Jr. 1975-91
Scott
Elgin Reed 1979-88
William
Odis Bertelsman 1979-
G.
Wix Unthank 1980-88
Karl
Spillman Forester 1988-2005
Jennifer
B. Coffman 1993-2013
David
L. Bunning 2002-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Kentucky,
1924-2017 (may be incomplete!)
Charles
Harwood Moorman 1924-25
Elwood
Hamilton 1935-38
Mac
Swinford 1937-75
Shackelford
Miller, Jr. 1939-45
Roy
M. Shelbourne 1946-64
Henry
L. Brooks 1954-69
Rhodes
Bratcher 1970-77
Charles
M. Allen 1971-85
Eugene
E. Siler, Jr. 1975-91
Edward
Huggins Johnstone 1977-93
Thomas
Austin Ballantine, Jr. 1977-91
Ronald
E. Meredith 1985-94
Charles
Ralph Simpson III 1986-2013
John
Gilpin Heyburn II 1992-2014
Jennifer
B. Coffman 1993-2013
Joseph
H. McKinley, Jr. 1995-
Gregory
N. Stivers 2014-
David
Jason Hale 2014-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a
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