the federal bench . Judge Evans served as Chief Judge from 1999 to 2006 .
Marvin Herman Shoob ( N . D . Ga . – 1979-1991 Active Service )
Judge Shoob was born in 1923 , in Walterboro , SC . Shoob was Jewish and served in the United States Army during World War II , from 1942 to 1945 , becoming a Sergeant . He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1948 . He was in private practice in Atlanta , Georgia from 1948 to 1979 until he was nominated to the Northern District of Georgia Court by President Carter in 1979 . During his judgeship , he helped Georgia deal with the large number of Cuban refugees who came to America and ended up in Georgia . He asked the Atlanta Bar Association for volunteers to take cases of those refugees ; many of the refugees were held in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta . Numerous Atlanta Bar members volunteered .
George Ernest Tidwell ( N . D . Ga . – 1979-1999 Active Service )
Judge Tidwell was born in Atlanta , Georgia in 1931 . Tidwell graduated from the Henry W . Grady High School ( now Midtown High ) in Atlanta and then received a Bachelor of Laws from Emory University School of Law in 1954 . He was in private practice in Atlanta from 1954 to 1966 . He was a legal aide to the House Floor Leader of the Georgia General Assembly from 1964 to 1966 . He was an associate general counsel of the State Bar of Georgia from 1965 to 1966 . He was an executive assistant attorney general of the State of Georgia from 1966 to 1968 . He was a judge of the Civil Court of Fulton County , Georgia from 1968 to 1971 . He was a judge of the Superior Court for the Atlanta Judicial Circuit from 1971 to 1979 . Carter served as Governor of Georgia when Tidwell became a Superior Court Judge .
Tidwell was nominated by President Jimmy Carter and confirmed by the Senate in 1979 to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia . He served as Chief Judge from 1996 to 1999 . He assumed senior status on October 8 , 1999 , serving in that status until his death on August 4 , 2011 , in Hilton Head Island , South Carolina , while on a family reunion vacation . Tidwell was a resident of Atlanta for his entire life and is interred in Atlanta .
FROM THE BENCH Robert L . Vining Jr . ( N . D . Ga . – 1979-1996 Active Service )
Judge Vining was born March 30 , 1931 , in Chatsworth , GA . He was a U . S . Air Force sergeant from 1951until 1959 . He graduated from the University of Georgia with both a B . A . and a J . D . from the University of Georgia in 1959 . He was in private practice in Dalton , Georgia from 1958-1969 . He was the Solicitor General in the Conasauga Judicial Circuit , Georgia from 1963-1968 . He became the Judge of the Superior Court of Georgia , Conasauga Judicial Circuit form 1969-1979 .
Judge Vining became the judge for the U . S . District Court for the Northern District of Georgia when he was nominated by President Jimmy Carter and confirmed by the Senate in 1979 . He served as chief judge from 1995-1996 . He was in senior status from 1996 until he died in 2022 .
Horace Taliaferro Ward ( N . D . Ga . – 1979-1993 Active Service )
Horace Ward was born in 1929 in LaGrange , Georgia . He received an A . B . from Morehouse College in 1949 and a Master of Arts from Atlanta University ( now Clark Atlanta University ) in 1950 . He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity . Ward was a U . S . Army corporal from 1953-1955 . He graduated from Northwestern University School of Law with a J . D . in 1959 .
In 1974 , Governor Jimmy Carter appointed Judge Ward on the Fulton County [ Georgia ] Civil Court making him the first African American judge in Georgia . Judge Ward became a Judge on the Superior Court of Georgia from 1977-1979 until President Carter nominated him to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia where Ward became first African American judge for that district . Judge Ward took senior status in 1993 until his death in 2016 in Atlanta , Georgia .
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