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 Robert Trimble was born in Virginia on
November 17, 1776. He was the oldest of 7 children, and the family moved
when Trimble was young to Kentucky. In 1800, after reading law, Trimble
began practicing in Paris, Kentucky. In 1807, Trimble was appointed to the
Kentucky Court of Appeals. He remained there only a short time. In 1817,
Trimble was appointed to the federal circuit court, the first Kentuckian to
be so named. Trimble was nominated to the Supreme Court by John Quincy Adams
in 1826, after the death of
Thomas Todd.
He was the first member of the Supreme Court to have served as a judge of
the lower federal court system. In his two year term at the Supreme Court,
Trimble wrote 16 opinions. He concurred in
Ogden v.
Saunders, a 4-3 decision, and the only constitutional case in which
Chief Justice
John
Marshall dissented. Trimble died in his hometown of Paris, Kentucky on
August 25, 1828, of a fever.
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