Robert P. Murrian
United States District Court
Eastern District of Tennessee
1978 – 2002

Robert P. Murrian died January 24, 2022. Judge Murrian was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967 and served as a naval lieutenant before enrolling in the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1974. He served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert L. Taylor in the Eastern District of Tennessee from 1974-1976, and then in 1976, he became an associate in the Knoxville law firm of Butler, Vines, Babb & Threadgill. In 1978 he was appointed to the federal bench  as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Tennessee. He retired from the bench in 2002 and practiced law for several years.