City: Gallatin
JUDD, John Waltus, lawyer; born Sumner Co., Tenn., Sept. 6, 1839; son of John W. and Lydia (Stark) JUDD; father a minister of the gospel; educated at the local schools Davidson Co. and at Springfield, Tenn.; married twice, first, Mrs. Lee Gilbert-MILLER, May 5, 1870; second, Eliza H. BAYLESS, Jan. 4, 1881; admitted to the bar at Springfield, Tenn., in 1865; practiced law in Nashville and in other counties of that judicial circuit, in the Supreme Court of the State and in the Federal Courts until July, 1888, when he was appointed by President Cleveland Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah; was Attorney of the old Edgefield & Kentucky R. R. Co. until that road was sold to the St. Louis and Southeastern in 1871, when he became attorney for the latter Co. in Tenn. until 1879, when the road was purchased by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.; he then became attorney for that road and remained such until appointed Judge, which position he held until Oct., 1889; resigned his judgeship to accept an offer of partnership by Judge Jabez SUTHERLAND, and entered the practice of law at Salt Lake City, Utah; in April, 1893, he was appointed United States District Attorney for the Territory of Utah, which office he held until Jan., 1896, when Utah was admitted as a State to the Union; he was then appointed United States District Attorney for the state of Utah, which office he held until June, 1898; he returned to Tenn. in the fall of 1898 and made his home in Nashville, Tenn.; in 1899 he was appointed Assistant District Attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., which position he resigned in 1907; in 1903 he was elected to a professorship by the Board of Trustees in the law department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., which position he now holds; at present he is doing special legal work for the U. S. government in Porto Rico, at San Juan; member of the Methodist church, F. & A. M.; Democrat.
