judges from Kentucky and Tennessee comprising the rest of the court. Any two judges constituted a quorum. New circuit judgeships were to be created as district judgeships in Kentucky and Tennessee became vacant. The repeal of this Act restored the District on March 8, 1802, . The District was divided into the Eastern and Western Districts on April 29, 1802. On February 24, 1807, Congress again abolished the two districts and created the United States Circuit for the District of Tennessee. On March 3, 1837, Congress assigned the judicial district of Tennessee to the Eighth Circuit. On June 18, 1839, by , Congress divided Tennessee into three districts, Eastern, Middle, and Western. Again, only one judgeship was allotted for all three districts. On July 15, 1862, Congress reassigned appellate jurisdiction to the Sixth Circuit. Finally, on June 14, 1878, Congress authorized a separate judgeship for the Western District of Tennessee. President Rutherford B. Hayes then appointed Eli Shelby Hammond as the first judge for only the Western District of Tennessee. There are now five permanent judgeships and four magistrate judgeships for the Western District of Tennessee. Current judges : Vacancies and pending nominations Former judges Chief judges Succession of seats Courthouses The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee is based out of two courthouses, the Clifford Davis Federal Building on 167 North Main Street in downtown Memphis and the Ed Jones Federal Building in Jackson, Tennessee. List of U.S. Attorneys Thomas Stuart 1803–1810 John E. Beck 1810–1818 Henry Crabb 1818–1827 Thomas H. Fletcher 1827–1829 James Collinsworth 1829–1835 William T. Brown 1835–1836 James P. Grundy 1836–1838 Joseph H. Talbot 1838-1838 Henry W. McCorry 1838–1850 Charles N. Gibbs 1850–1853 Richard J. Hays 1853–1856 Alexander W. McCampbell 1856–1861 John M. McCarmack 1861–1877 W.W. Murray 1877–1882 William F. Poston 1882–1885 Henry W. McCorry 1885–1889 Samuel W. Hawkins 1889–1894 Julius A. Taylor 1894–1895 Charles B. Simonton 1895–1898 George Randolph 1898–1910 Casey Todd 1910–1914 Hubert F. Fisher 1914–1917 William D. Kyser 1917–1921 S.E. Murray 1921–1926 Tilmon A. Lancaster 1926–1926 Nugent Dodds 1926–1926 Lindsay B. Phillips 1926–1931 Nelson H. Carver 1931–1932 Dwayne D. Maddox 1932–1933 William McClanahan 1933–1948 John Brown 1948–1953 Milsaps Fitzhugh 1953–1960 Warner Hodges 1960–1961 Thomas L. Robinson 1961–1969 Thomas F. Turley, Jr. 1969–1977 W.J. Michael Cody 1977–1981 Hickman Ewing 1981–1991 Ed Bryant 1991–1993 Daniel A. Clancy 1993 Veronica F. Coleman 1993–2001 Lawrence J. Laurenzi 2001-2001 Terrell L. Harris 2001–2005 Lawrence J.