Robert Allan Edgar (born 1940) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Robert Allan Edgar
Tennessee Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
Born 1940 in Munising, MI
FJC ID: 686
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 9/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 30/year
Tennessee Eastern District Court · 1985–2005
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
- Private practice, Chattanooga, Tennessee1967–1985
- TennesseeState representative · 1970–1972
U.S. Army1965–1967
Appointments
1985–2005 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
LL.B. · 1965- Davidson CollegeB.A. · 1962