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Harold Loyd Murphy

Harold Loyd Murphy

Georgia Northern District Court

Born 1927 in Haralson County, GA

Died 2022 in Rome, GA

FJC ID: 1723

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 10/year

Georgia Northern District Court · 1977–20221977198019902000201020202024100
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 25/year

Georgia Northern District Court · 1977–20221977198019902000201020202024250
citing decisions

Georgia Northern District Court · 1977–2022

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.

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Harold Loyd Murphy (March 31, 1927 – December 28, 2022) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Superior Court of Georgia, Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit
    Judge · 1971–1977
  2. Private practice, Buchanan and Tallapoosa, Georgia
    1958–1971
  3. Georgia
    State representative · 1951–1961
  4. Private practice, Buchanan, Georgia
    1949–1958
  5. Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, Georgia
    Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, Georgia
    Assistant solicitor general · 1956
  6. U.S. Navy
    1945–1946

Appointments

  1. Georgia Northern District Court
    U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
    1977–2022 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. University of Georgia School of Law
    University of Georgia School of Law
    LL.B. · 1949