C. Ashley Royal

Charles Ashley Royal (born 1949) is a United States federal judge.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Royal received an A.B. from the University of Georgia in 1971, a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1974, and a M.S. from the University of Georgia in 1976. He was an assistant district attorney in the District Attorney's Office, Augusta Judicial Circuit, Georgia from 1974 to 1975. He was in private practice in Georgia in 1976, and was a public defender in Glynn County, Georgia from 1976 to 1977, returning to private practice from 1977 to 2001.

On October 9, 2001, Royal was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia vacated by Duross Fitzpatrick. Royal was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20, 2001, and received his commission on December 21, 2001. He served as chief judge from 2009 to 2014.

Sources

C. Ashley Royal at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Duross Fitzpatrick	Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia 2001–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

M. Alabama	Watkins 2 seats vacant

N. Alabama	Bowdre Coogler Proctor Hopkins Kallon Haikala 2 seats vacant

S. Alabama	Steele Granade DuBose

M. Florida	Merryday Kovachevich Whittemore Corrigan Covington Howard Scriven Honeywell Dalton Chappell Davis Byron Mendoza 2 seats vacant

N. Florida	Rodgers Hinkle Walker 1 seat vacant

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

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