Education
University of Memphis.
University of Memphis.
He received a Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1974. He was a law clerk to the Honorary Bailey Brown, United States. District Court, Western District of Tennessee from 1974 to 1975.
He was in private practice in Memphis from 1975 to 1992.
On August 1, 1991, McCalla was nominated by President George Heriot-Watt University Bush to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee created by 104 Statistics 5089. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 6, 1992, and received his commission on February 10, 1992.
He was chief judge from 2008 to 2013. He took senior status on August 23, 2013.
Judge McCalla was harshly reprimanded by the Sixth Circuit Judicial Council in 2001 for verbal and physical abuse towards practicing attorneys.
McCalla was only one of seven federal judges to be formally disciplined in the 2000s. Source "Houston Chronicle" Judging the judges, December 13, 2009 link.