U. S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Succession Chart

 
First Seat1
Howel E. Jackson
Horace H. Lurton
Loyal E. Knappan
Charles H. Moorman
Elwood Hamilton
Shackelford Miller, Jr.
Bertram T. Combs
W. Wallace Kent
Albert J. Engel, Jr.
Richard F. Suhrheinrich
David W. McKeague
Second Seat2
William Howard Taft
Henry F. Severens
Arthur C. Denison
Charles C. Simons
Clifford P. O'Sullivan
William E. Miller
Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.
Julia Smith Gibbons
 
 
 
Third Seat3
William R. Day
John K. Richards
John W. Warrington
Maurice H. Donahue
Smith Hickenlooper
Florence E. Allen
Paul C. Weick
Robert B. Krupansky
Karen Nelson Moore
 
 
Fourth Seat4
Xenophon HIcks
Potter Stewart
Lester L. Cecil
Anthony J. Celebrezze
Leroy J. Contie, Jr.
Alan E. Norris
Deborah L. Cook
 
 
 
 
       
Fifth Seat5
Herschel W. Arant
Thomas F. McAllister
George C. Edwards, Jr.
James L. Ryan
Raymond M. Kethledge
 
 
Sixth Seat6
John D. Martin
Harry Phillips
Bailey Brown
Harry W. Wellford
Eugene E. Siler, Jr.
John M. Rogers
 
Seventh Seat7
John Weld Peck
Nathaniel R. Jones
Ransey Guy Cole, Jr.
 
 
 
 
Eighth Seat8
Wade H. McCree, Jr .
Damon J. Keith
Richard Allen Griffin
 
 
 
 
Ninth Seat9
Henry Luesing Brooks
Pierce Lively
Alice M. Batchelder
 
Tenth Seat10
Cornelia G. Kennedy
Susan Bieke Neilson
Helene White
 
Eleventh Seat11
Boyce F. Martin, Jr.
 
 
 
Twelfth Seat12
H. Ted Milburn
Ronald L. Gilman
 
 
Thirteen Seat13
Ralph B. Guy, Jr.
Eric L. Clay
Fourteenth Seat14
David A. Nelson
Jeffrey S. Sutton
Fifteenth Seat15
Danny J. Boggs
 
Sixteenth Seat16
Martha Craig Daughtrey
 
NOTE: Julian Mack was appointed to one of five circuit judgeships authorized to serve the U. S. Commerce Court, the U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Districts Courts, and was assigned by the Chief Judge to the
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit of 1910.17 Congress abolished the Commerce Court in 1913 and terminated the judgeships upon the death, retirement, or resignation of the incumbents.18 Chief Justice Taft assigned Mack to the Sixth Circuit for one year and the Second Circuit indefinitely, effective July 1, 1929.