Callie V. Granade

Callie V. S. Granade
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
Incumbent
Assumed office March 7, 2016
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
In office 2003–2010
Preceded by	Charles Randolph Butler Jr.
Succeeded by	William H. Steele
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama
In office February 12, 2002 – March 7, 2016
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Alex T. Howard, Jr.
Personal details
Born	1950 (age 66–67) Lexington, Virginia
Education	Hollins College B.A. University of Texas School of Law J.D.

Callie Virginia Smith "Ginny" Granade (born 1950) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

Born in Lexington, Virginia, Granade graduated from Hollins College with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and later from University of Texas School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1975. She is the granddaughter of former Judge Richard Rives, the federal judge who wrote the majority opinion in Browder v. Gayle finding Montgomery, Alabama's bus segregation unconstitutional.

Following law school graduation, she became a law clerk to John Godbold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit from 1975 to 1976. She was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Alabama from 1977 to 2001, and an interim United States Attorney in that district from 2001 to 2002.

On the recommendation of Senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, Granade was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama by President George W. Bush on September 4, 2001, to a seat vacated when Alex T. Howard, Jr. retired from Federal Judicial Service in senior status. Granade was confirmed by the Senate on February 4 and received her commission on February 12, 2002. She served as Chief Judge from 2003 to 2010. She assumed senior status on March 7, 2016.

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