Judge Thomas Jefferson Latham (November 22, 1831 – July 24, 1911) was an American lawyer and businessman.

Growing up in rural Weakley County, Tennessee, in the Antebellum South, he became a lawyer and remained neutral during the American Civil War.

Thomas Jefferson Latham was born on November 22, 1831, in Washington, North Carolina.

[2] Latham was opposed to secession, but he did not support the actions of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

[2] In January 1868, he was appointed by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase as "register of the United States district court in bankruptcy" for Memphis.

[2] Additionally, according to Francesca Morgan, an Associate Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University, Mary Latham's leadership position within the U.D.C.

gave her an opportunity to anticipate Mary Ritter Beard's feminism as she "celebrated married women's property rights, white women's admission to state universities, women's establishment of "industrial and reform schools" for girls, and their community work that resulted in public libraries, public drinking fountains for man and beast, police matrons, public parks, and clean streets".