William Keith Watkins

William Keith Watkins (born 1951) is a United States federal judge.

Born in Pike County, Alabama, Watkins received a B.S. from Auburn University in 1973 and a J.D. from the University of Alabama Law School in 1976. He was in private practice in Alabama from 1976 to 2005.

On September 28, 2005, Watkins was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama vacated by William Harold Albritton III. Watkins was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 2005, and received his commission on December 27, 2005. He began serving as Chief Judge in 2011.

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Current active district judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

M. Alabama	Watkins Fuller 1 seat vacant

N. Alabama	Bowdre Blackburn Coogler Proctor Hopkins Kallon Haikala 1 seat vacant

S. Alabama	Steele Granade DuBose

M. Florida	Conway Kovachevich Merryday Whittemore Steele Corrigan Covington Howard Scriven Honeywell Dalton Chappell Davis Byron Mendoza

N. Florida	Rodgers Hinkle Smoak Walker

S. Florida	Moore Zloch Moreno Ungaro Lenard Middlebrooks Dimitrouleas Marra Martinez Altonaga Cohn Cooke Williams Scola Gayles Bloom Rosenberg 1 seat vacant

M. Georgia	Land Royal Treadwell Abrams

N. Georgia	Thrash Murphy Story Duffey Batten Totenberg Jones May Cohen Ross 1 seat vacant

S. Georgia	Wood Moore Hall

Chief Judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Frank Minis Johnson Robert Edward Varner Truman McGill Hobbs Myron Herbert Thompson William Harold Albritton III Mark Fuller William Keith Watkins