Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey (; née Kerkow; born July 21, 1942) is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 14/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 281/year
Tennessee Supreme Court · 1990–1993Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1993–2009
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Tennessee Supreme CourtAssociate justice · 1990–1993
Faculty · 1972–1982, 1988–1990- ↳assistant professor of law · 1972–1975
- ↳lecturer in law · 1975–1982
- ↳adjunct professor of law · 1988–1990
- Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Middle DivisionAssociate judge · 1975–1990
- Tenth Judicial Circuit, TennesseeAssistant district attorney · 1969–1972
Middle District of TennesseeAssistant U.S. attorney · 1968–1969- Private practice, Nashville, Tennessee1968
Appointments
1993–2009 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Vanderbilt Universityba
- Vanderbilt Universityjd
- J.D. · 1968
- Vanderbilt UniversityB.A. · 1964