Background
Summitt, Robert Murray was born on January 14, 1924 in Sweetwater, Tennessee, United States. Son of Murray Dyer and Vina Mae (Brakebill) Summitt.
Summitt, Robert Murray was born on January 14, 1924 in Sweetwater, Tennessee, United States. Son of Murray Dyer and Vina Mae (Brakebill) Summitt.
Juris Doctor, University Tennessee, 1949. Postgraduate, National Judicial College, 1982. Postgraduate, American Academy Judicial Education, 1977.
Postgraduate, University Tennessee, 1978.
Private practice, Chattanooga, 1949-1968. Circuit judge Tennessee Judicial 1st Division 11th Judicial District Court, Tennessee, since 1968. Served on Tennessee Supreme Court, 1990.
President Tennessee Judicial Conference, 1980, ec., vice president, executive committee member, 1980-1984, past chairman nominating committee, continuintg education committee, past chairman. Member Tennessee Court of the Judiciary. Past chairman ad hoc federal diversity committee National Conference State Trial Judges, past chairman task force on judicial support, past chairman State Judicial Association, chairman finance and budget committee, Tennessee representative to national conference.
State chairman, national representative, Inner City committee chairman, Boy Scouts American (Silver Beaver award 1976). Board directors Salvation Army. Member Freedom's Foundation.
Board directors, trustee, past Sunday School teacher First Centenary United Methodist Church. Member American Bar Association (past chairman National Conference State Trial Judges 1991-1992, member judicial administration division council, judicial council House of Delegates, nominating committee judicial division), Tennessee Bar Association, Chattanooga Bar Association (board governors), American Judicature Society, American Judges Association, International Academy Trial Judges, Silver Falcon Association, Air Force Association, Reserve Officers Association, Retired Reserve Officers Association, University Tennessee Alumni Association Century Club, Order of the Arrow, City Farmers Club, Half-Century Club, Sons of the American Revolution (chancellor), Mason, Royal Order Jesters, Royal Order Scotland, Eastern Star, Alhambra Temple, Rotary, Phi Delta Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Married Florence Varnell, May 14, 1955. Children: Virginia Anne Sharber, Robert M. Junior, Laura Stephens, Martin Dyer.