Fourth Judicial Circuit

In 1809, the State Legislature divided the state into five judicial circuits. The Upper Cumberland counties were located in the Third Circuit at that time.Miller, Chas. A. The Official and Political Manual of the State of Tennessee. Nashville: Marshall & Bruce, Stationers, 1890.
In 1835, the judicial circuits were redrawn and the region came under the umbrella of the Fourth Circuit, including the counties of Smith, Overton, White, Jackson, Fentress, and Warren.
== List of Fourth Circuit judges ==
* Thomas Stuart (1809-1813)
* John F. Jack (1813-1836)
* Abram Caruthers (1836-1847)
* W.B. Campbell (1847-1850)
* Alvin Cullom (1850-1852)
* John L. Goodall (1852-1861)
* John C. Gaut (1864-1865)
* George W. Bridges (1865-1866)
* W.L. Adams (1866-1868)
* A.J. Trewhitt (1868-1870)
* J.B. Hoyl (1870-1878)
* D.C. Trewhitt (1878-after 1890)
== References ==