Xenophon Hicks

Xenophon Hicks (May 2, 1872 – November 2, 1952) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Education and career Born in Clinton, Tennessee, Hicks received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from U.S. Grant University (now Tennessee Wesleyan University) in 1891 and a Bachelor of Laws from Cumberland School of Law (then part of Cumberland University, now part of Samford University) in 1892. He was in private practice in Clinton from 1892 to 1898. He was city attorney of Clinton from 1892 to 1893, and county attorney of Anderson County, Tennessee from 1894 to 1896. He joined the United States Army in 1898, later serving as an alderman and mayor of Clinton. He became a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1911, and was an assistant state attorney general of the 2nd Judicial Circuit of Tennessee from 1911 to 1913. He was a Judge of the Criminal and Law Court for the 2nd Judicial Circuit of Tennessee from 1913 to 1918, and was a Judge of the 19th Circuit Court of Tennessee from 1918 to 1923. Federal judicial service