U. S. District Court,
Eastern District of Tennessee
Chronology

1878-1894
  • Connally Findlay Trigg*1
  • David McKendree Key2
1895-1905
  • David McKendree Key*3
  • Charles Dickens Clark4
1906-1908
  • Charles Dickens Clark5
  • Edward Terry Sanford6
1909-1923
  • Edward Terry Sanford7
  • Xenophon Hicks8
1924-1928
  • Xenophon Hicks9
  • George Caldwell Taylor10
1929-1939
  • George Caldwell Taylor
  • Leslie Rogers Darr*11
1940-1949
  • George Caldwell Taylor12
  • Leslie Rogers Darr*13
  • Robert Love Taylor14
1950-1961
  • Leslie Rogers Darr,* Chief Judge15
  • Robert Love Taylor16
  • Frank Wiley Wilson17
  • Charles Gelbert Neese18
  1962-1969
  • Robert Love Taylor, Chief Judge19
  • Frank Wiley Wilson20
  • Charles Gelbert Neese

  • Leslie Roger Darr,* Senior Judge21
  1970-1982
  • Frank Wiley Wilson, Chief Judge22
  • Robert Love Taylor23
  • Charles G. Neese24
  1983
  • Robert Love Taylor, Chief Judge
  • H. Ted Milburn25
  • Thomas Gray Hull26
  1984
  • Robert Love Taylor, Chief Judge27
  • H. Ted Milburn28
  • Thomas Gray Hull29
  • James Howard Jarvis, III30
*Commission included counties that became
the Middle District of Tennessee