The first term of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery, with the Honorable James E. Brown presiding, was held on June 15, 1831, "at the late residence of Daniel Spangler, deceased."
Following Judge James E. Brown on the Circuit Court Bench in 1831 came:
Judge Fleming Saunders in 1834; Judge Norborne M. Taliaferro in1844; Judge Andrew S. Fulton in 1852; Judge James S. Tipton in 1868; Judge A. Mahood in 1870; Judge Henry E. Blair in 1874; Judge W. W. Moffett in 1906; Judge Herbert Bailey Gregory in 1923; Judge Thurston L. Keister in 1926; Judge Frederick Lane Hoback in 1952; Judge John B. Spiers in 1956; Judge W. Southall Jordan in 1957; Judge Kenneth I. Devore in 1977.