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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jul 13, 2026

A retirement ceremony honoring U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes will be held July 23 at 3:30 p.m. CDT in Courtroom 6B of the Fred D. Thompson U.S. Courthouse, 719 Church St., Nashville. A reception in the courthouse rotunda will follow the ceremony. View the invitation. Holmes is retiring on July 31 after 11 years of service on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before joining the federal court, Holmes practiced as a partner with Harwell Howard Hyne Gabbert & Manner, where she headed the firm’s commercial bankruptcy and reorganization practice group. Prior to that she worked with the U.S. Trustee’s office. She is a master in the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court and a fellow of the Nashville and Tennessee bar foundations. She also served as president of the Nashville Bar Association in 2002. She earned her law degree from Vanderbilt Law in 1986. The law school has more on her career.