J. Daniel Breen
| Daniel Breen | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee | |
| Assumed office August 23, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jon Phipps McCalla |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee | |
| Assumed office March 14, 2003 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Julia Smith Gibbons |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 10, 1950 Jackson, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Spring Hill College University of Tennessee College of Law |
John Daniel Breen (born July 10, 1950)[1] is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
Born in Jackson, Tennessee, Breen received a B.A. from Spring Hill College in 1972 and a J.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1975. He was in private practice in Jackson from 1975 to 1991. He served as U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee from 1991 to 2003 before being nominated to his current position.
On January 7, 2003, Breen was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee vacated by Julia Smith Gibbons. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 13, 2003 and received his commission on March 14, 2003. He became chief judge on August 8, 2013.
Breen presided over the case of Daniel Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, the perpetrators in the Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee. In 2010, Breen convicted the two of conspiracy to murder Obama and other African-American people and sentenced Cowart and Schlesselman to 14 and 10 years in federal prison respectively; both suspects pleaded guilty to conspiracy to their charges.[2][3]
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- J. Daniel Breen at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
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| Preceded by | Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee 2013–present |
Incumbent |
| Preceded by | Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee 2003–present |
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- Pages with reference errors
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- People from Jackson, Tennessee
- Spring Hill College alumni
- United States district court judges appointed by George W. Bush
- United States magistrate judges
- University of Tennessee alumni
