John Thomas Fowlkes, Jr.

John Fowlkes

Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Incumbent
Assumed office August 1, 2012
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Bernice Donald
Personal details
Born	1951 (age 64–65) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma mater	Valparaiso University University of Denver

John Thomas Fowlkes, Jr. (born 1951) is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., Judge Fowlkes received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1975 from Valparaiso University. He received his Juris Doctor in 1977 from the University of Denver School of Law. He began his career as an Assistant Public Defender in the Shelby County Public Defender's Office in Memphis, Tennessee. He served as an Assistant District Attorney General in the Shelby County District Attorney General's Office from 1979 to 1989. He then served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Tennessee from 1989 to 2002. He was Chief Administrative Officer of the Shelby County Government from 2002 to 2007. He was a judge of the Shelby County Criminal Court from 2007 to 2012.^[1]

Federal judicial service

On December 16, 2011, President Obama nominated Judge Fowlkes to be a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.^[2] He would replace Judge Bernice Bouie Donald who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on September 8, 2011. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 14, 2012 and his nomination was reported to the floor on April 19, 2012, by voice vote, with Senator Lee recorded as voting no.

The full Senate voted to confirm Fowlkes in a 94–2 vote on July 10, 2012. He received his commission on August 1, 2012.^[3]

References

External links

John Thomas Fowlkes, Jr. at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Bernice Donald	Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee 2012–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

E. Kentucky	Caldwell Reeves Bunning Van Tatenhove Thapar 1 seat vacant

W. Kentucky	McKinley Stivers Hale 2 seats vacant

E. Michigan	Hood Rosen Borman Roberts Lawson Cox Ludington Murphy Goldsmith Drain Berg Leitman Levy Michelson Parker

W. Michigan	Jonker Bell Maloney Neff

N. Ohio	Oliver Nugent Gaughan Gwin Polster Adams Boyko Zouhary Lioi Pearson Helmick

S. Ohio	Sargus Dlott Marbley Rose Frost Watson Barrett Black

E. Tennessee	Varlan Greer Mattice Reeves McDonough

M. Tennessee	Sharp Campbell Trauger 1 seat vacant

W. Tennessee	Breen Anderson Fowlkes Lipman 1 seat vacant

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