Thomas Virgil Pittman (March 28, 1916 – January 6, 2012) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Thomas Virgil Pittman
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
Born 1916 in Enterprise, AL
Died 2012 in Mobile, AL
FJC ID: 1892
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 7/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 66/year
Alabama Middle District Court · 1966–1970Alabama Southern District Court · 1966–2012
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
- University of Alabama Gadsden CenterLecturer · 1948–1966
- Alabama Circuit Court, Sixteenth Judicial CircuitJudge · 1951–1966
- ↳presiding judge · 1953–1966
- Private practice, Gadsden, Alabama1946–1951
- U.S. Naval Reserve1944–1946
Federal Bureau of InvestigationSpecial agent · 1940–1944
U.S. Army Reserve1938–1942
Appointments
1966–1970 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Reassignment
1966–2012 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1940- University of AlabamaB.S. · 1939