T. S. Ellis III

Thomas Selby (Tim) Ellis III (born May 15, 1940, Bogotá, Colombia) is a Senior United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Ellis was educated at Princeton University where he earned a B.S.E. in 1961.

Ellis served in the United States Navy as a Naval aviator from 1961 to 1966. He flew a wide range of historically significant aircraft during this time, including:

Ellis earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1969. Harvard awarded Ellis a Knox Fellowship for study in England. He then received a Diploma in Law in 1970 from Magdalen College, Oxford University. Ellis then entered private practice with the law firm of Hunton & Williams (now Hunton & Williams LLP) where he remained until 1987. His practice included a wide range of commercial litigation matters. He often worked with fellow Hunton & Williams attorney John Charles Thomas, who became Virginia's first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Ellis also was a lecturer at the College of William and Mary, from 1981 to 1983.

Ellis was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on July 1, 1987, to a seat vacated by Robert R. Merhige. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 1987.

After two decades of work as a full-time federal district judge, Judge Ellis took Senior Status in April 2007. He continues to hear cases in the Eastern District of Virginia, and also has been empowered to hear cases in the Western District of Virginia. Ellis' published decisions are approaching 1,000 in number. Judge Ellis also occasionally sits by designation on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

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