John Trice Nixon

John Trice Nixon (January 9, 1933 – December 19, 2019) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Early life, education and military service John Trice Nixon was born on January 9, 1933, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Herman Clarence Nixon, was a political scientist at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Southern Agrarians. Nixon graduated from Peabody Demonstration School. He then received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Harvard College in 1955. He earned a Bachelor of Laws from the Vanderbilt University Law School in 1960. He served in the United States Army in 1958 for six months, and then in the United States Army Reserves. In September 1963, he was commissioned a second lieutenant while serving with the 405th Civil Affairs Group where he was assigned to the legal section. Career