William Augustus Bootle (August 19, 1902 – January 25, 2005) was an American attorney and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia noted for helping oversee desegregation in the Southern United States.
William Augustus Bootle
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia
Born 1902 in Walterboro, SC
Died 2005 in Macon, GA
FJC ID: 213
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 47/year
Georgia Middle District Court · 1954–2005
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, Macon, Georgia1925–1928, 1933–1954
- Mercer UniversityPart-time professor · 1926–1937
- ↳acting dean · 1933–1937
U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Georgia1929–1933- Middle District of GeorgiaAssistant U.S. attorney · 1928–1929
Appointments
1954–2005 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Mercer University School of LawLL.B. · 1925
- Mercer UniversityA.B. · 1924