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against, such as Harvard Law School who did not admit her or other women at the time. One tale was about a lawyer who stole her taxi so he could get to court on time. He did not realize that the judge he was going to be in front of was Judge Kravitch.
Frank Minis Johnson, Jr.( Fifth Circuit / Eleventh Circuit – 1979-1991 Active Service)
Judge Johnson was born in 1918 In Winston County, Alabama which had opposed secession from the Union during the American Civil War. He graduated from the University of Alabama; one of his classmates was George C. Wallace, future governor of Alabama. Johnson graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1943 with a Bachelor of Laws. He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955 to a seat on the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama where he served as chief judge until President Carter appointed him to the Fifth Circuit / Eleventh Circuit in 1979.
Thomas Alonzo Clark( Fifth Circuit / Eleventh Circuit – 1979-1991 Active Service)
Judge Clark was born in Atlanta, GA in 1920. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Washington and Lee in 1942 and was in the U S Naval Reserve during World War II, from 1942-1946. He received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1949 and was in private practice in Georgia from 1949-1957 and was in private practice in Florida from1957-1979. He was succeeded by Susan H. Black in 1991.
Following are the appointments by President Jimmy Carter for the judges of the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern District Courts of Georgia.
Harold Lloyd Murphy( N. D. Ga. – 1977-2017 Active Service)
Judge Murphy was born in Haralson County, Georgia, on March 31, 1927. He was in the US Navy from 1945- 1946. He received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Georgia School of law in 1949 and practiced in Buchanan, GA until 1958 and in both Buchanan and Tallapoosa, Georgia, until 1971. He was a Georgia state representative from 1951 to 1961 followed by assistant state solicitor general of the Tallapoosa
Judicial Circuit in 1956. He was Superior Court Judge for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, Georgia from 1974 to 1977 during the beginning of Governor Carter’ s time in office. As President, Jimmy Carter appointed Harold Murphy to the Northern District of Georgia in 1977 where Judge Murphy served in active service until 2017. He died in 2022 in Rome, Georgia.
Berry Avant Edenfield( S. D. Ga. – 1978-2006 Active Service)
Judge Edenfield was born in born in 1934 in Bulloch County, GA. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B. B. A. in 1956 and graduated from the University of Georgia School of law with an LL. B. in 1958. He served in the Georgia Army National Guard, 1957- 1963 and was in private practice in Statesboro, Georgia, 1958-1978. Edenfield was elected to the Georgia State Senate, from Bulloch County, representing the 4th District in 1964. He took office in January 1965, serving with South Georgia State Senator, Jimmy Carter. Edenfield served one term, until January 1967.
On September 27, 1978, Edenfield was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. He served as Chief Judge from 1990 to 1997, and assumed senior status on August 2, 2006, serving in that status until his death until 2015.
Orinda Dale Evans( N. D. Ga. – 1979-2008 Active Service)
Orinda Dale Evans was born in 1943 in Savannah, Georgia. She received an A. B. degree from Duke University in 1965 and a J. D. from Emory University School of Law in 1968. She was in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia from 1968 to 1979. She served as counsel to the Atlanta Crime Commission from 1970 to 1971 and was an adjunct professor of law at Emory from 1974 to 1977.
On June 5, 1979, Evans was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District
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