James Hargrove Meredith (August 25, 1914 – December 8, 1988) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
James Hargrove Meredith
Missouri Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Born 1914 in Wedderburn, OR
Died 1988 in St. Louis, MO
FJC ID: 1621
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 4/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 11/year
Missouri Eastern District Court · 1962–1988
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 · 1974–1979
- Private practice, St. Louis, Missouri1952–1962
- Private practice, Washington, D.C.1961–1962
- State Insurance Department, MissouriChief counsel · 1950–1952
- Gov. Forrest Smith, MissouriLegal secretary · 1949–1950
- Private practice, Portageville, Missouri1937–1938, 1946–1949
U.S. Navy1944–1946
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CaliforniaSpecial agent · 1942–1944- Private practice, New Madrid, Missouri1939–1941
- New Madrid County, MissouriAssistant prosecutor · 1939–1941
Appointments
1962–1988 · Appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- University of Missouri School of LawLL.B. · 1937
- University of MissouriA.B. · 1936