Samuel Hale Sibley

Samuel Hale Sibley (July 2, 1873 – October 13, 1958) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Education and career Born in Union Point, Georgia, Sibley received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from the University of Georgia in 1892 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1893. He entered private practice in Union Point, and became a judge of the Greene County Court from 1905 to 1912, and of the City Court of Greensboro from 1912 to 1917. He was a district attorney of the Georgia Railroad from 1917 to 1919. Federal judicial service