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Elbert Tuttle
Elbert Parr Tuttle was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. He served as chief judge of the Court from 1960 to 1967. Tuttle died on June 23, 1996.
A 1964 Time Magazine article on the Fifth Circuit titled "The Fascinating & Frenetic Fifth" gave this profile of Tuttle:
Chief Judge Tuttle, 67, a native Californian, who has lived in Atlanta since graduating from Cornell Law School in 1923. A former G.O.P. state chairman of Georgia, Tax Lawyer Tuttle was the U.S. Treasury Department's general counsel when Eisenhower appointed him to the court in 1954. As the senior man under 70, Tuttle became chief judge in 1961 when the overworked Rives relinquished the job. Tough-minded Tuttle is regarded as one of the fairest, most efficient judges in the U.S.[1]
Education
Professional career
- U.S. Army Air Service Private, 1918-1919
- Private practice, Atlanta, Georgia, 1923-1953
- U.S. Army Colonel, 1941-1946
- General counsel, U.S. Treasury Department, 1953-1954[2]
Awards and associations
- 1988: Edward J. Devitt Distinguished Service to Justice Award, American Judicature Society[3]
Federal judicial career
Fifth Circuit
Elbert Tuttle was nominated by Dwight D. Eisenhower to be a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on July 7, 1954. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 3, 1954, and received his commission on August 4th. He served as chief judge from 1960-1967. Tuttle assumed senior status on June 1, 1968.[2]
Eleventh Circuit
Tuttle was reassigned on October 1, 1981 to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. His service ended with his death on June 23, 1996.[2]
Footnotes
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Jennifer Elrod • Don Willett • James Graves • Carl Stewart • Edith Jones • Leslie Southwick • Priscilla Richman • Catharina Haynes • Jerry Edwin Smith (Fifth Circuit) • Kurt Engelhardt • Irma Ramirez • Stephen Higginson • Cory Wilson • Stuart Kyle Duncan • James Ho • Andrew Oldham • Dana Douglas | ||
| Senior judges |
James Dennis • Carolyn King • Patrick Higginbotham • John Duhe • Edith Clement • Fortunato Benavides • Jacques Wiener • W. Eugene Davis • Grady Jolly • Rhesa Barksdale • | ||
| Former judges | John Minor Wisdom • Edward Harris • Peter Fay • John Godbold • Robert Lanier Anderson • Phyllis Kravitch • Gerald Tjoflat • Joseph Hatchett • Albert Henderson • Paul Roney • David Dyer • Elbert Tuttle • Thomas Clark (Eleventh Circuit) • Richard Rives • Robert Vance • Lewis Morgan • James Hill (Federal judge) • Andrew Phelps McCormick • Don Albert Pardee • Thomas Reavley • Harold DeMoss • Edward Prado • Robert Madden Hill • Alvin Rubin • Henry Politz • Reynaldo Garza • Albert Tate, Jr. • Jerre Williams • Robert Parker • Charles Pickering • David Davie Shelby • Rufus Edward Foster • Robert Lynn Batts • Nathan Philemon Bryan • Edwin Ruthven Holmes • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. • Alexander Campbell King • Samuel Hale Sibley • Claude Feemster Clayton • Richard Wilde Walker • Wayne Borah • Louie Willard Strum • Irving Goldberg • Leon McCord • Warren Leroy Jones • Robert Ainsworth • Joe Ingraham • William Thornberry • George Carswell • Curtis Waller • Griffin Bell • John Robert Brown (Federal judge) • Benjamin Cameron • James Coleman (federal judge) • Thomas Gee • Walter Gewin • Samuel Johnson • Elmo Lee • John Bryan Simpson • Frank M. Johnson, Jr. • Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) • Robert Lee Russell (Federal judge) • Gregg Costa • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
John Godbold • Elbert Tuttle • Richard Rives • Carl Stewart • Carolyn King • Priscilla Richman • Henry Politz • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. • John Robert Brown (Federal judge) • James Coleman (federal judge) • Charles Clark (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) • | ||
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: William Pryor • Adalberto Jordan • Barbara Lagoa • Robin Rosenbaum • Jill Pryor • Elizabeth Branch • Robert J. Luck • Britt Grant • Kevin Newsom • Andrew Brasher • Embry Kidd • Nancy Gbana Abudu | ||
| Senior judges |
Stanley Marcus • Julie Carnes • Robert Lanier Anderson • Gerald Tjoflat • James Edmondson (Federal judge) • Joel Dubina • Susan Black (Eleventh Circuit) • Frank Hull • Charles Wilson (Florida) • Edward Carnes • | ||
| Former judges | Beverly Martin • Peter Fay • John Godbold • Phyllis Kravitch • Joseph Hatchett • Albert Henderson • Paul Roney • David Dyer • Elbert Tuttle • Thomas Clark (Eleventh Circuit) • Richard Rives • Robert Vance • Lewis Morgan • Emmett Cox • Stanley Birch • Rosemary Barkett • James Hill (Federal judge) • Warren Leroy Jones • John Bryan Simpson • Frank M. Johnson, Jr. • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
John Godbold • Robert Lanier Anderson • Gerald Tjoflat • Joseph Hatchett • James Edmondson (Federal judge) • Paul Roney • Joel Dubina • Edward Carnes • | ||
