High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Trimble (November 17, 1776 ? August 25, 1828) was an attorney, judge, and a justice of the United States Supreme Court. Trimble was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, to William Trimble and Mary McMillan. His family moved to Kentucky while he was still an infant settling in the area outside Boonesboro (now Clark County). He read law and was licensed to practice law in 1803, entering private practice in Paris, Kentucky in Bourbon County from 1803 to 1808. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from Paris, Kentucky, in 1803. He also served briefly on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as a Second Judge from 1807-1808, and as Chief Justice in 1810. He was the federal prosecutor from 1813 to 1817. Trimble married Nancy Timberlake and the two had at least six children.