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.

Sources

William Keith Watkins at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by William Harold Albritton III	Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama 2005–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

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

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