Robert Leon Jordan

American judge (1934–2024)

Robert Leon Jordan (June 28, 1934 – February 27, 2024) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee .

Education and career

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Jordan was born in Woodlawn, Tennessee . He served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in 1958 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1960. He was in private practice in Nashville , Tennessee from 1960 to 1961. He was a manager for the Frontier Refining Company in Denver , Colorado from 1962 to 1964, returning to private practice in Johnson City , Tennessee from 1964 to 1966. He was thereafter a trust officer of the First People's Bank of Johnson City until 1969, and then of First National Bank of Milton , Florida and of the Commercial National Bank of Pensacola , Florida (of which he was also a Vice President) until 1971. He resumed private practice in Johnson City from 1971 to 1980, and was a Chancellor of the First Judicial District of Tennessee from 1980 to 1988.

Federal judicial service

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On July 25, 1988, Jordan was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee vacated by Judge Robert Love Taylor . Jordan was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 14, 1988, and received his commission on October 17, 1988. He assumed senior status on November 30, 2001.

Death

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Jordan died in Maryville, Tennessee , on February 27, 2024, at the age of 89.

References

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↑ Who's who in American Law (15 ed.). Marquis Who's Who. 2007. p. 576.

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Sources

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Robert Leon Jordan at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

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