Myron Herbert Thompson

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Myron Herbert Thompson

Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
Incumbent
Assumed office August 22, 2013
Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
In office September 29, 1980 – August 22, 2013
Appointed by	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
Succeeded by	Vacant
Personal details
Born	1947 (age 68–69) Tuskegee, Alabama
Alma mater	Yale College Yale Law School

Myron Herbert Thompson (born 1947) is a Senior United States District Judge.

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Thompson received a B.A. from Yale University in 1969 and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1972. He was an Assistant Attorney General of Alabama from 1972 to 1974, and was then in private practice in Dothan, Alabama until 1980. He was the first African American employee of the state of Alabama who was not a janitor or a teacher.

On September 17, 1980, Thompson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama vacated by Frank M. Johnson, Jr.. Thompson was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1980, and received his commission on September 29, 1980. He served as chief judge from 1991 to 1998. He took senior status on August 22, 2013.^[1]

In a 2014 ruling, Thompson ruled an Alabama law regulating abortion unconstitutional, in Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc., v. Strange (also known as Planned Parenthood Southeast, Inc., v. Bentley), citing the undue burden standard.^[2]^[3]

References

Myron Herbert Thompson at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Frank Minis Johnson	Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama 1980–2013	Succeeded by vacant

Current senior district judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

M. Alabama	Thompson Albritton

N. Alabama	Hancock Propst Acker Blackburn Smith Johnson

S. Alabama	Butler Granade

M. Florida	Hodges Castagna Sharp Fawsett Schlesinger Conway Adams Bucklew Lazzara Antoon Steele Moody Presnell

N. Florida	Stafford Paul Vinson Collier Mickle Smoak Hinkle

S. Florida	King Hoeveler Gonzalez Ryskamp Graham Hurley Gold Seitz Huck Cohn

M. Georgia	Sands Lawson Royal

N. Georgia	O'Kelley Evans Shoob Vining Cooper Hunt Pannell

S. Georgia	Bowen

Chief Judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Frank Minis Johnson Robert Edward Varner Truman McGill Hobbs Myron Herbert Thompson William Harold Albritton III Mark Fuller William Keith Watkins

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