Thomas Todd

Personal

Birthday: 
1/23/1765
Birthplace: 
King and Queen County, VA
Date of Death: 
2/7/1826
Place of Death: 
Frankfort, KY
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Continental Army, 1779, 1781
Clerk, conventions seeking statehood for Kentucky, 1784-1792
Private practice, Danville, Kentucky, 1788-1801
Clerk, U.S. District Court, District of Kentucky, 1789-1792
Clerk, Kentucky constitutional conventions, 1792, 1799
Clerk, Lexington [Kentucky] Democratic Society, 1793-1794
Clerk, Kentucky House of Representatives, 1792-1801
Clerk, Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1799-1801
Judge, Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1801-1806
Chief justice, Supreme Court of Kentucky, 1806-1807

Education

Name of School: 
Liberty Hall Academy (now Washington and Lee University)
Degree Year: 
1783
Name of School - Second: 
Read law
Degree Year - Second: 
1786

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
Supreme Court of the United States
Court Name: 

Supreme Court of the United States

President Nominating: 
Thomas Jefferson
Party Affiliation of President: 
Jeffersonian Republican
Commission Date: 
03/03/1807
Termination Date: 
02/07/1826
Termination Reason: 
Death
Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services: 

Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Seventh Circuit, March 3, 1807-February 7, 1826