Jack Tarpley Camp Jr.
| Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. | |
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| Judge on United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia | |
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In office April 20, 1988 – December 31, 2008 |
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| Nominated by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Charles A. Moye, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Amy Totenberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 30, 1943 Newnan, Georgia |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
The Citadel University of Virginia University of Virginia School of Law |
Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (born October 30, 1943) is a former United States federal judge who retired from the bench in November 2010 after pleading guilty to drug related charges, including a felony count for giving a stripper cocaine even though he knew she was a convicted felon.
Born in Newnan, Georgia, Camp received a Bachelor of Arts from The Citadel in 1965, a Master of Arts in history from the University of Virginia in 1967, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1973. Camp won a Ford Foundation fellowship to study history at the University of Virginia.
Camp grew up on a working farm in Moreland, Georgia a few miles from Newnan, that had been in his family more than a century. He still owns a 175-acre farm in Coweta County.
Camp was in the United States Army from 1967 to 1970, and in the United States Army Reserve from 1970 to 1986. He joined the Army as a lieutenant.
He arrived in Vietnam in 1968, shortly after the Tet offensive, and was assigned to military intelligence. He spent the first part of his tour in the interrogation section and the second part in visual reconnaissance that often involved patrolling the Ho Chi Minh trail (the major northsouth route for the North Vietnamese armies) from the air.
According to Camp, “It was an exciting tour", "I never would have volunteered for Vietnam. But it was the event of my generation,” the judge said, and, as such, he has never regretted his service there.
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