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Xenophon Hicks
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1923–1928
Xenophon Hicks , Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Xenophon Hicks (May 2, 1872 – November 2, 1952) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Education
- U.S. Grant University (now Tennessee Wesleyan College)A.B., 1891
- Cumberland School of LawLL.B., 1892
Career
Private practice, Clinton, Tennessee, 1892-1898; City attorney, Clinton, Tennessee, 1892-1893; County attorney, Anderson County, Tennessee, 1894-1896; U.S. Army, 1898; Alderman/mayor, Clinton, Tennessee; State senator, Tennessee, 1911; Assistant attorney general, Second Judicial Circuit, State of Tennessee, 1911-1913; Judge, Tennessee Criminal and Law Court, Second Judicial Circuit, 1913-1918; Judge, Tennessee Circuit Court, Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, 1918-1923; Member, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, 1938-1948, and Judicial Conference of the United States, 1948-1951
Biography
Xenophon Hicks (May 2, 1872 – November 2, 1952) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
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