Edward Huggins Johnstone (April 26, 1922 – June 26, 2013) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Edward Huggins Johnstone
Kentucky Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
Born 1922 in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Died 2013 in Louisville, KY
FJC ID: 1189
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 5/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 18/year
Kentucky Western District Court · 1977–2013
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1991–1993
- Kentucky Circuit Court, Fifty-Sixth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1976–1977
- Private practice, Princeton, Kentucky1949–1976
- Kuttawa, KentuckyCity attorney · 1954–1976
- Fredonia, KentuckyCity attorney · 1954–1976
- Princeton [Kentucky] Police CourtJudge · 1954–1969
- Princeton, KentuckyCity attorney · 1952–1954
9th Infantry DivisionU.S. Army sergeant · 1942–1945
Appointments
1977–2013 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1949