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U.S. District Court in Virginia
U.S. District Judges for Virginia, 1789-1819 (may be
incomplete!)
Nathaniel
Pendleton 1789-96
Cyrus
Griffin 1789-1810
St.
George Tucker 1813-19
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Virginia,
1819-2017 (may be incomplete!)
St.
George Tucker 1819-25
Philip
Pendleton Barbour 1830-36
Peter
Vivian Daniel 1836-41
John
Y. Mason 1841-44
James
Dandridge Halyburton 1844-61
Robert
William Hughes 1874-98
Edmund
Waddill, Jr. 1908-21
D.
Lawrence Groner 1921-31
Luther
B. Way 1931-43
Robert
Nelson Pollard 1936-47
Sterling
Hutcheson 1944-59
Albert
V. Bryan 1947-61
John
D. Butzner, Jr. 1962-67
Richard
Boykin Kellam 1967-81
John
Ashton MacKenzie 1967-85
Robert
Reynold Merhige, Jr. 1967-86
Albert
V. Bryan, Jr. 1971-91
D.
Dortch Warriner 1974-86
J.
Calvitt Clarke, Jr. 1974-91
Richard
Leroy Williams 1980-92
James
Chris Cacheris 1981-98
James
Randolph Spencer 1986-2014
Thomas
Selby Ellis III 1987-2007
Rebecca
Beach Smith 1989-
Henry
Coke Morgan, Jr. 1992-2004
Leonie
M. Brinkema 1993-
James
Chris Cacheris 1998-
Mark
Steven Davis 2008-
Arenda
Lauretta Wright Allen 2011-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of Virginia,
1901-05 (may be incomplete!)
John
Jay Jackson, Jr. 1901-05
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Virginia,
1819-2017 (may be incomplete!)
John
G. Jackson 1819-25
Philip
C. Pendleton 1825
Alexander
Caldwell 1825-39
John
White Brockenbrough 1846-61
John
Jay Jackson, Jr. 1861-64
Alexander
Rives 1871-82
John
Paul 1883-1901
Henry
Clay McDowell 1901-31
Floyd
H. Roberts 1938-39
Alfred
Dickinson Barksdale 1939-57
Ted
Dalton 1959-76
Thomas
Johnson Michie 1961-73
Hiram
Emory Widener, Jr. 1969-72
James
C. Turk 1972-2002
J.
Harry Michael, Jr. 1980-95
Norman
K. Moon 1997-2010
Glen
Edward Conrad 2003-
Elizabeth
Kay Dillon 2014-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
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Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023. |
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