Robert Trimble (November 17, 1776 – August 25, 1828) was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1826 to his death in 1828. During his brief Supreme Court tenure he authored several majority opinions, including the decision in Ogden v. Saunders, which was the only majority opinion that Chief Justice John Marshall ever dissented from during his 34 years on the Court.
Robert Trimble
Supreme Court of the United States
Born 1776 in Augusta County, VA
Died 1828 in Paris, KY
FJC ID: 2413
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Paris, Kentucky1803–1808, 1809–1817
- Commonwealth of KentuckyDistrict attorney · 1813–1817
- Kentucky Court of AppealsSecond judge · 1807–1808, 1810
- Kentucky Court of AppealsChief justice · 1810
- KentuckyState representative · 1803
Appointments
1826–1828 · Appointed by John Quincy Adams (Jeffersonian Republican)Term ended: Death- U.S. District Court for the District of Kentucky1817–1826 · Appointed by James Madison (Jeffersonian Republican)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- Read law1803