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Southern District Marshals |
Date |
| John Hanes (Territory of Alabama) | July 13, 1818 |
| David Files (District of Alabama created) | May 13, 1820 |
| Taliaferro Livingston | November 3, 1820 ; February 7, 1821 |
| Francis W. Armstrong (Northern District created, but separate U.S. Marshal not authorized) | October 11, 1823 ; January 9, 1828 |
| Benjamin F. Moore | April 20, 1829 |
| Robert L. Crawford ( Separate Southern District Marshal authorized May 5, 1830) | May 8, 1830 ; October 8, 1834 ; April 13, 1838 |
| Robert L. Crawford *(Served as U.S. Marshal for Southern and Middle Districts) | February 6, 1839 |
| William Armstead * | April 6, 1842 |
| James G. Lyon * | October 6, 1845 ; February 24, 1846 |
| Charles Bingham * | May 16, 1850 |
| Cade M. Godbold * | April 19, 1853 ; March 14, 1854 ; March 24, 1858 |
| John Hardy * | February 23, 1866 |
| Robert W. Healy * | February 23, 1867 ; February 28, 1871 |
| Jerome J. Hinds * | March 3, 1875 |
| George Turner * | March 16, 1876 |
| Matthias C. Osborn * | April 16, 1880 |
| Paul Strobach * | March 17, 1883 |
| W.C.M. Golson * | May 20, 1884 |
| Joseph H. Speed * | May 29, 1884 |
| William W. Allen * | June 23, 1885 ; August 2, 1886 |
| Benjamin W. Walker * (First Marshal for the Southern District exclusively on March 3,1893) | October 12, 1889 ; February 11, 1890 ; March 3, 1893 |
| Edward R. Morrisette | May 26, 1893 ; August 22, 1893 |
| Frank Simmons | September 16, 1897 ; July 9, 1898 ; March 4, 1899 ; January 17, 1900 |
| Gilbert B. Deans | December 18, 1903 ; January 14, 1908 |
| Christopher C. Gewin | May 7, 1914 ; May 9, 1918 |
| John W. Van Heuvel | December 1, 1923 ; January 8, 1924 |
| James A. Stafford | January 16, 1928 ; January 21, 1932 |
| Roulhac Gewin (Son of U.S. Marshal Christopher C. Gewin) | January 28, 1936 ; March 29, 1940 ; March 24, 1944 ; June, 1948 |
| Katherine Battle (one of the first women to hold the office of U.S. Marshal) | January 24, 1949 |
| Vernon P. Burns | May 5, 1949 |
| James L. May | July 17, 1953 ; June 13, 1957 |
| George M. Stuart | August 15, 1961 |
| H. Stanley Fountain | September 10, 1969 ; October 4, 1973 |
| James M. Garrett | January 1, 1978 ; October 27, 1978 |
| Tyree A. Richburg | October 27, 1978 |
| Howard Adair | December 9, 1981 ; February 6, 1986 |
| Robert Moore | February 25, 1994 |
| William S. Taylor | March 13, 2002 |