TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 21, 2023

U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Julia Smith Gibbons plans to take senior status, Bloomberg Law reports. Gibbons was appointed to the court by President George W. Bush in 2002. She previously had served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, having been appointed to that court in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. She was the youngest district judge in the country at the time. Gibbons' decision to take a reduced workload will allow President Joe Biden to appoint a new judge. It will be the fourth opening on the court he has filled.