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He lived in Giles County for 70 years. James David Vaughan, music teacher, composer, song book publisher, the founder of the Vaughan Conservatory of Music and the James D. Vaughan Publishing Company; born in Giles County. Archibald Wright, Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1858 to 1885; raised in Giles County. [25]
On February 24, 1807, Congress again abolished the two districts and created the United States Circuit for the District of Tennessee. On March 3, 1837, Congress assigned the judicial district of Tennessee to the Eighth Circuit. On June 18, 1839, by 5 Stat. 313, Congress divided Tennessee into three districts, Eastern, Middle, and Western.
In 1981, Governor Lamar Alexander appointed Gibbons to serve as a judge of the Tennessee Circuit Court for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, [1] which has jurisdiction over Macon, Jackson, Smith, Trousdale, and Wilson Counties. [2] She was elected to a full term in 1982. She is the first woman trial judge of a court of record in Tennessee.
Burgess, 59, was released from prison in May last year after a Giles County judge overturned the first-degree murder conviction he received in 1999, which was reached in large part due to the ...
Courts of Tennessee include: State courts of Tennessee. Tennessee Supreme Court [1] Tennessee Court of Appeals (3 grand divisions) [2] Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (3 grand divisions) [3] Tennessee Circuit Courts (32 judicial districts) [4] Tennessee Chancery and Probate Courts (32 judicial districts) [4] Tennessee Criminal Courts (32 ...
Tennessee's Chancery Court was created in the first half of the 19th Century, and remains one of the few distinctly separate courts of equity in the United States. [4] While the Chancery Court and Tennessee's Circuit Court, the court of general civil and criminal jurisdiction, [3] may share a set of procedural rules in each county, there are ...
D'Army Bailey (November 29, 1941 – July 12, 2015) was an American lawyer, circuit court judge, civil rights activist, author, and film actor. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he served as a city councilman in Berkeley, California, from 1971 to 1973.
Giles County is the name of two counties in the United States: Giles County, Tennessee; Giles County, Virginia This page was last edited on 28 ...