Federal Court — TN
Western District of Tennessee
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Western District of Tennessee compiled from verified federal court records. Judge caseload counts, criminal docket fractions, and sentencing departure rates — never a prediction about a specific defendant.
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB × USSC FY14-23 — generated May 5, 2026
District Aggregate
Total Dockets
47,508
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
21
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
14.5%
across district judges
Booker Inflection
—
mean downward departure
Criminal fraction = criminal dockets ÷ total dockets per judge, averaged across the district. Booker inflection = mean downward-departure rate for judges in this district per USSC FY14-23. Aggregate frequencies only — not a prediction about any specific case.
Top Judges by Docket Volume
Judges ranked by total indexed docket count. Criminal fraction reflects the share of their docket classified as criminal (vs. civil).
| Judge | Total Dockets | Criminal Dockets | Criminal Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Todd | 8,005 | 2,793 | 34.9% |
| Jon McCalla | 6,609 | 1,605 | 24.3% |
| Samuel Mays | 4,734 | 822 | 17.4% |
| Bernice Donald | 4,295 | 1,135 | 26.4% |
| J. Breen | 3,860 | 373 | 9.7% |
| Julia Gibbons | 3,285 | 857 | 26.1% |
| Stanley Anderson | 3,046 | 213 | 7.0% |
| Sheryl Lipman | 2,524 | 316 | 12.5% |
| Jerome Turner | 2,207 | 862 | 39.1% |
| John Fowlkes | 2,121 | 338 | 15.9% |
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB via mv_judge_docket_caseload. Counts reflect dockets indexed as of corpus build date.
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This is legal information, not legal advice. Aggregate data from verified public court records. Nothing here predicts a specific outcome.