Martha Craig Daughtrey
Judge
1942 –
Who is Martha Craig Daughtrey?
Martha Craig Daughtrey is a senior judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Born Covington, Kentucky, Daughtrey received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1964 and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1968. She was briefly in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee in 1968, then became an assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, stationed in Nashville, from 1968 to 1969. She was an assistant district attorney for the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Tennessee, also in Nashville, from 1969 to 1972. She was a member of the faculty of the Vanderbilt University Law School, as an assistant professor of law from 1972 to 1975 and as a lecturer in law from 1975 to 1982, returning as an adjunct professor from 1988 to 1990. She was an Associate judge of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle Division from 1975 to 1990, becoming an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, the first woman to serve on this court, from 1990 until her appointment to the federal bench in 1993.
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- Born
- Jun 21, 1942
Covington - Also known as
- Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Vanderbilt University Law School
- Vanderbilt University
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on July 23, 2013
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