Robert Luke Vining Jr. (March 30, 1931 – September 1, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia from 1979 to 2022.
Robert L. Vining Jr.
Georgia Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Born 1931 in Chatsworth, GA
Died 2022
FJC ID: 2461
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 6/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 43/year
Georgia Northern District Court · 1979–2022
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.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Superior Court of Georgia, Conasauga Judicial CircuitJudge · 1969–1979
- Private practice, Dalton, Georgia1958–1969
Conasauga Judicial Circuit, GeorgiaSolicitor general · 1963–1968
U.S. Air Force sergeant1951–1959
Appointments
1979–2022 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
- University of GeorgiaB.A. · 1959
J.D. · 1959