Eddyville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Lyon County,Kentucky,United States. The population was 2,554 at the 2010 census,up from 2,350 in 2000. The Kentucky State Penitentiary is located at Eddyville. The town is considered a tourist attraction because of its access to nearby Lake Barkley.
In the United States,a district attorney (DA),county attorney,county prosecutor,state's attorney,prosecuting attorney,commonwealth's attorney,state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area,typically a county or a group of counties. The exact scope of the office varies by state. Generally,the prosecutor represents the people of the jurisdiction. With the exception of three states,district attorneys are elected,unlike similar roles in other common law jurisdictions.
Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government. Before becoming chief justice,Vinson served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938,as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943,and as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946.
The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears direct appeals in civil cases from the trial-level city and county circuit courts,as well as the criminal law,family law and administrative law cases that are initially appealed to the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Established in 1779 as the Supreme Court of Appeals,the Supreme Court of Virginia is one of the oldest continuously active judicial bodies in the United States.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee is the federal trial court for most of Middle Tennessee. Based at the Estes Kefauver Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Nashville,it was created in 1839 when Congress added a third district to the state. Tennessee—along with Kentucky,Ohio,and Michigan—is located within the area covered by United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,and appeals are taken to that court.
Barbara Louise Milano Keenan is a senior United States circuit judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee is the federal court in the Sixth Circuit whose jurisdiction covers most of East Tennessee and a portion of Middle Tennessee. The court has jurisdiction over 41 counties with 4 divisions. Based in Knoxville,Tennessee,it maintains branch facilities in Chattanooga,Tennessee;Greeneville,Tennessee;and Winchester,Tennessee.
The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP),also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland," is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville,Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River,about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville. It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Completed in 1886,it is Kentucky's oldest prison facility and the only commonwealth-owned facility with supermax units. The penitentiary houses Kentucky's male death row inmates and the commonwealth's execution facility. As of 2015 it had approximately 350 staff members and an annual operating budget of $20 million. In most cases,inmates are not sent directly to the penitentiary after sentencing,but are sent there because of violent or disruptive behavior committed in other less secure correctional facilities in the commonwealth. This was Kentucky's second penitentiary:the first was made uninhabitable from a flood in 1937.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky is the federal district court for the western part of the state of Kentucky.
As established and defined by the Kentucky Constitution,the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is composed of three branches:the Executive,Judicial,and Legislative.
William Thompson Scott is an American jurist who is a former Associate Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. He was elected in November 2004 to represent the 7th Supreme Court District,which consists of 22 counties in Eastern Kentucky.
Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008. Thapar was President Donald Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States.
Robert Trimble was a lawyer and jurist who served as Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals,as United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1826 to his death in 1828. During his brief Supreme Court tenure he authored several majority opinions,including the decision in Ogden v. Saunders,which was the only majority opinion that Chief Justice John Marshall ever dissented from during his 34 years on the Court.
Pleas E. Jones was an American lawyer and jurist from Kentucky. A native of Whitley County,Kentucky,Jones was a schoolteacher before he served in the U.S. Army during World War II. After returning to the United States,Jones earned his law degree at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Jones was a county judge and a Commonwealth's attorney before being elected a circuit judge. In 1973,Jones was appointed an associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals—then the state's highest court. He served on that court until his retirement in 1979. He died seven years later.
John Baylor Nalbandian is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was previously a partner in the Cincinnati office of Taft Stettinius &Hollister.
David Buckingham is a former Associate Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Tiffany Patrice Cunningham is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
A general election will be held in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 5,2024. The primary election for all offices will be held on May 21,2024. The last day to register to vote in the primary election is April 22 and the last day to register to vote in the general election is October 7.
