Robert Lee Russell (August 19, 1900 – January 18, 1955) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Born in Winder, Georgia, Russell was the brother of Richard Russell Jr.
He was educated in Winder and attended the University of Georgia before leaving to study law in the office of his father, Richard Russell Sr.
He was admitted to the bar in 1920 and practiced in Atlanta as a partner in his father's firm from 1920 to 1923.
He was his father's secretary and law clerk during the elder Russell's service as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1923 to 1928, and then returned to private practice in Winder.
[1] Russell was nominated by President Harry S. Truman on October 15, 1949, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated by Judge Samuel Hale Sibley.