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Starting in the late 1950s, judges Elbert Parr Tuttle (chief judge 1960–67), John Minor Wisdom, John R. Brown (chief judge 1967–79), and Richard T. Rives (chief judge 1959–60) became known as the "Fifth Circuit Four", or simply "The Four", for decisions crucial in advancing the civil rights of African Americans.
The first formal circuits were defined in 1293, when a statute was enacted which established four assize circuits. [2]It was long assumed that these circuits originated with the eyre in common pleas during the reign of Henry II, but during the late 1950s, legal historians such as Ralph Pugh recognized that the eyre's "connection with later circuit justices is rather collateral than lineal", [3 ...
Priscilla Richman was born in Palacios, Texas.Her earliest years were spent on her family's farm in Collegeport.She later grew up and went to school in Waco.She worked part-time during high school and college at her stepfather's insurance company.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in case citations, 7th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts:
Edith Hollan Jones (born April 7, 1949) is a United States circuit judge and the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.. Jones was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 27, 1985, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333.
The Circuit Courts of Maryland are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in Maryland. They are Maryland's highest courts of record exercising original jurisdiction at law and in equity in all civil and criminal matters, and have such additional powers and jurisdiction as conferred by the Maryland Constitution of 1867 as amended, or by law. [1]
Millett was born in 1963 in Dexter, Maine.Her family's roots in Maine date back to the American Revolutionary War, [4] although she grew up in Marine, Illinois.She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in political science, and then from Harvard Law School in 1988 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude.
The Fifth District Court of Appeal was created by the 1979 session of the Florida Legislature. [1] The addition of the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal in 2023 changed the caseload of the Fifth DCA.