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Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 1801-2002 (may be incomplete!)
Benjamin Bourne 1801-02 John Lowell 1878-84 LeBaron B. Colt 1884-1913 William Lebaron Putnam 1892-1917 Francis Cabot Lowell 1905-11 William Schofield 1911-12 Frederic Dodge 1912-18 George H. Bingham 1913-39 Charles F. Johnson 1917-29 George W. Anderson 1918-31 Scott Wilson 1929-40 James Madison Morton, Jr. 1932-39 Calvert Magruder 1939-59 John C. Mahoney 1940-50 Peter Woodbury 1941-64 John P. Hartigan 1951-65 Bailey Aldrich 1959-72 Frank M. Coffin 1965-89 Edward Matthew McEntee 1965-76 Levin Hicks Campbell 1972-92 Hugh H. Bownes 1977-90 Stephen G. Breyer 1980-94 Juan B. Torruella 1984- Bruce M. Selya 1986- Conrad K. Cyr 1989-97 David H. Souter 1990 Norman Stahl 1992- Michael Boudin 1992- Sandra Lynch 1995-

Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1911 Mar 6: Francis Cabot Lowell, died in office.
  • 1912: William Schofield, died in office.
  • 1931 Sep 30: George W. Anderson, took senior status.
  • 1939 Mar 23: George H. Bingham, took senior status.
  • 1950 Dec 20: John C. Mahoney, took senior status.
  • 1972 Aug 31: Bailey Aldrich, took senior status.
  • 1990 Jan 1: Hugh H. Bownes, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, 1801-2010 (may be incomplete!)
    Egbert Benson 1801-02 Samuel M. Blatchford 1878-82 E. Henry Lacombe 1887-1916 William James Wallace 1887-1907 Nathaniel Shipman 1892-1902 Alfred Conkling Coxe 1902-17 William Kneeland Townsend 1902-07 Walter C. Noyes 1907-13 Henry Galbraith Ward 1907-21 Henry W. Rogers 1913-26 Charles M. Hough 1916-27 Martin T. Manton 1918-39 Julius M. Mayer 1921-24 Learned Hand 1924-51 Thomas Walter Swan 1926-53 Augustus Noble Hand 1927-53 Harrie Brigham Chase 1929-54 Julian W. Mack 1929-40 Charles Edward Clark 1939-63 Robert Porter Patterson 1939-40 Jerome Frank 1941-57 Harold R. Medina 1951-58 Carroll Clark Hincks 1953-59 John Marshall Harlan 1954-55 Sterry R. Waterman 1955-70 J. Edward Lumbard 1955-71 Leonard P. Moore 1957-71 Henry Jacob Friendly 1959-74 J. Joseph Smith 1960-71 Paul Raymond Hays 1961-74 Irving R. Kaufman 1961-87 Thurgood Marshall 1961-65 Robert Palmer Anderson 1964-71 Wilfred Feinberg 1966-91 Walter Roe Mansfield 1971-81 William Hughes Mulligan 1971-81 James L. Oakes 1971-92 William H. Timbers 1971-81 Murray Irwin Gurfein 1974-79 Thomas J. Meskill 1975-93 Ellsworth Alfred Van Graafeiland 1975 Amalya Lyle Kearse 1979- Jon O. Newman 1979-97 Richard J. Cardamone 1981-93 Lawrence Warren Pierce 1981-90 George C. Pratt 1982-93 Ralph K. Winter, Jr. 1982- Roger J. Miner 1985-97 Frank X. Altimari 1985-96 J. Daniel Mahoney 1986-96 John M. Walker, Jr. 1989- Joseph M. McLaughlin 1990- Dennis G. Jacobs 1992- Pierre Nelson Leval 1993- Fred I. Parker 1994- Guido Calabresi 1994-2009 Jose Alberto Cabranes 1994- Reena Raggi 2002-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1907 Jun 2: William Kneeland Townsend, died in office.
  • 1926 Aug 16: Henry W. Rogers, died in office.
  • 1927 Apr 22: Charles M. Hough, died in office.
  • 1939 Feb 7: Martin T. Manton, resigned.
  • 1957 Jan 13: Jerome Frank, died in office.
  • 1958 Mar 1: Harold R. Medina, took senior status.
  • 1963 Dec 13: Charles Edward Clark, died in office.
  • 1971 May 1: Robert Palmer Anderson, took senior status.
  • 1971 Jul 20: J. Edward Lumbard, took senior status.
  • 1979 Dec 16: Murray Irwin Gurfein, died in office.
  • 1996: J. Daniel Mahoney, died in office.
  • 1996 Jan 1: Frank X. Altimari, took senior status.
  • 2009 Jul 21: Guido Calabresi, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1801-2000 (may be incomplete!)
    Richard Bassett 1801-02 William McKennan 1869-91 Marcus W. Acheson 1891-1906 George Mifflin Dallas 1892-1909 George Gray 1899-1914 Joseph Buffington 1906-38 William M. Lanning 1909-12 Robert W. Archbald 1911-13 John Bayard McPherson 1912-19 Victor Baynard Woolley 1914-38 Thomas Griffith Haight 1919-20 J. Warren Davis 1920-39 J. Whitaker Thompson 1931-38 John Biggs, Jr. 1937-65 William Clark 1938-43 Albert Branson Maris 1938-58 Charles A. Jones 1939-44 Francis Biddle 1939-40 Herbert Funk Goodrich 1940-62 Gerald McLaughlin 1943-68 John Joseph O'Connell 1945-49 Harry E. Kalodner 1946-69 William H. Hastie 1949-71 Austin L. Staley 1950-68 Philip Forman 1959-61 J. Cullen Ganey 1961-66 William Francis Smith 1961-68 Abraham Lincoln Freedman 1964-71 Collins Jacques Seitz 1966-89 Francis L. Van Dusen 1967-77 David Stahl 1968-70 Ruggero J. Aldisert 1968-86 Arlin M. Adams 1969-87 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. 1977-93 Edward Roy Becker 1981- Carol Los Mansmann 1985- Walter K. Stapleton 1985- William D. Hutchinson 1987-95 Samuel A. Alito, Jr. 1990- Maryanne Trump Barry 1999- Thomas L. Ambro 2000-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1906 Jun 21: Marcus W. Acheson, died in office.
  • 1912 Feb 16: William M. Lanning, died in office.
  • 1913 Jan 13: Robert W. Archbald, removed.
  • 1919 Jan 20: John Bayard McPherson, died in office.
  • 1938 Jun 1: Joseph Buffington, took senior status.
  • 1940 Jan 22: Francis Biddle, resigned.
  • 1949 Dec 16: John Joseph O'Connell, died in office.
  • 1962 Jun 25: Herbert Funk Goodrich, died in office.
  • 1965 Oct 30: John Biggs, Jr., took senior status.
  • 1968: William Francis Smith, died in office; Austin L. Staley, took senior status.
  • 1970: David Stahl, died in office.
  • 1971 Mar 13: Abraham Lincoln Freedman, died in office.
  • 1971 May 31: William H. Hastie, took senior status.
  • 1986 Dec 31: Ruggero J. Aldisert, took senior status.
  • 1987 Jan 2: Arlin M. Adams, retired.
  • 1995 Oct 8: William D. Hutchinson, died in office.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1801-2000 (may be incomplete!)
    George Keith Taylor 1801- Hugh Lennox Bond 1870-91 Nathan Goff, Jr. 1892-1913 Jeter C. Pritchard 1904-21 Charles A. Woods 1913-25 Martin A. Knapp 1914-23 Edmund Waddill, Jr. 1921-31 John C. Rose 1922-27 John J. Parker 1925-58 Elliott Northcott 1927-39 Morris Ames Soper 1931-55 Armistead Mason Dobie 1939-56 Simon E. Sobeloff 1956-70 Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. 1957-81 Herbert S. Boreman 1959-71 Albert V. Bryan 1961-72 J. Spencer Bell 1961-67 J. Braxton Craven, Jr. 1966-77 Harrison L. Winter 1966-90 John Decker Butzner, Jr. 1967-82 John A. Field, Jr. 1971-76 Donald Stuart Russell 1971- Hiram Emory Widener, Jr. 1972- Kenneth Keller Hall 1976-98 James Dickson Phillips, Jr. 1978-94 James M. Sprouse 1979-92 Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr. 1979-2000 Samuel James Ervin III 1980-99 Robert F. Chapman 1981-91 Emory M. Sneeden 1984-86 James Harvie Wilkinson III 1984-97 William W. Wilkins, Jr. 1986- Paul V. Niemeyer 1990- Clyde H. Hamilton 1991- J. Michael Luttig 1991- Karen J. Williams 1992- M. Blane Michael 1993- Diana G. Motz 1994-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1921 Apr 10: Jeter C. Pritchard, died in office.
  • 1923 Feb 10: Martin A. Knapp, died in office.
  • 1925: Charles A. Woods, died in office.
  • 1927: John C. Rose, died in office.
  • 1931 Apr 9: Edmund Waddill, Jr., died in office.
  • 1958 Mar 17: John J. Parker, died in office.
  • 1967 Mar 19: J. Spencer Bell, died in office.
  • 1971 Jun 15: Herbert S. Boreman, took senior status.
  • 1972 May 3: Albert V. Bryan, took senior status.
  • 1982 Nov 1: John Decker Butzner, Jr., took senior status.
  • 1999 Sep 18: Samuel James Ervin III, died in office.
  • 2000 Aug 31: Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., died in office.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1869-2009 (may be incomplete!)
    William Burnham Woods 1869-80 Don Albert Pardee 1881-1919 Robert Lynn Batts 1917-19 Alexander C. King 1920-25 Nathan P. Bryan 1920-35 Rufus E. Foster 1925- Leon McCord 1938- Robert Lee Russell 1949-55 Wayne G. Borah 1949-56 Richard T. Rives 1951-66 Elbert P. Tuttle 1954-68 John R. Brown 1955-84 Minor Wisdom 1957-77 Griffin Bell 1962-76 James Plemon Coleman 1965- W. Homer Thornberry 1965-78 John C. Godbold 1966-81 Irving L. Goldberg 1966-95 Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr. 1966-81 Thomas Gibbs Gee 1973-91 Frank M. Johnson, Jr. 1979-81 Robert Lanier Anderson III 1979-81 Jerry E. Smith 1987- Rhesa Hawkins Barksdale 1990- Fortunato P. Benavides 1994- Charles W. Pickering 2004

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1919 Aug 22: Robert Lynn Batts, resigned.
  • 1935 Aug 8: Nathan P. Bryan, died in office.
  • 1956 Dec 31: Wayne G. Borah, took senior status.
  • 1966 Feb 15: Richard T. Rives, took senior status.
  • 1968 Jun 1: Elbert P. Tuttle, took senior status.
  • 1976 Mar 1: Griffin Bell, resigned.
  • 1977 Jan 15: Minor Wisdom, took senior status.
  • 1981 Dec 22: Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., died in office.
  • 1984 Jul 20: John R. Brown, took senior status.
  • 2004 Dec 8: Charles W. Pickering, retired.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 1801-2006 (may be incomplete!)
    William McClung 1801- John Baxter 1877-86 Horace Harmon Lurton 1893-1909 John K. Richards 1903-09 Florence E. Allen 1934-59 Elwood Hamilton 1938-45 Herschel W. Arant 1939-41 Thomas F. McAllister 1941-63 Shackelford Miller, Jr. 1945- Potter Stewart 1954-58 George Edwards 1963- Anthony J. Celebrezze 1965- Wade H. McCree, Jr. 1966-77 Bert T. Combs 1967-70 Henry L. Brooks 1969-71 Damon Keith 1977-95 Bailey Brown 1979-97 James L. Ryan 1986- Danny J. Boggs 1986- Alice Moore Batchelder 1992- Paul Suhrheinrich 1999 Susan Bieke Neilson 2005-06

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1886 Apr 2: John Baxter, died in office.
  • 1941 Jan 14: Herschel W. Arant, died in office.
  • 1945 Sep 19: Elwood Hamilton, died in office.
  • 1959 Oct 5: Florence E. Allen, took senior status.
  • 1971 Dec 30: Henry L. Brooks, died in office.
  • 1995 May 1: Damon Keith, took senior status.
  • 1997 Dec 31: Bailey Brown, resigned.
  • 2006 Jan 25: Susan Bieke Neilson, died in office.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1884-1994 (may be incomplete!)
    Walter Q. Gresham 1884-93 Francis Elisha Baker 1902-24 Christian Cecil Kohlsaat 1905 Samuel Alschuler 1915-36 Albert Barnes Anderson 1925-29 Otto Kerner 1939- Sherman Minton 1941-49 F. Ryan Duffy 1949- Walter J. Cummings, Jr. 1966-86 Thomas E. Fairchild 1966-81 Otto Kerner 1968-74 Wilbur F. Pell, Jr. 1970-84 John Paul Stevens 1970-75 Robert Sprecher 1971-82 Philip W. Tone 1974-80 William J. Bauer 1974-94

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1924 Mar 15: Francis Elisha Baker, died in office.
  • 1929 Oct 30: Albert Barnes Anderson, took senior status.
  • 1936 May 15: Samuel Alschuler, took senior status.
  • 1974 Jul 24: Otto Kerner, resigned.
  • 1982 May 15: Robert Sprecher, died in office.
  • 1984: Wilbur F. Pell, Jr., took senior status.
  • 1994 Oct 31: William J. Bauer, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, 1870-2007 (may be incomplete!)
    John F. Dillon 1870-79 George Washington McCrary 1880-84 David Josiah Brewer 1884-90 Henry Clay Caldwell 1890-1903 Walter Henry Sanborn 1903-28 Elmer Bragg Adams 1905-16 Wilbur Franklin Booth 1925-32 John B. Sanborn 1932-59 Seth Thomas 1935- Harvey M. Johnsen 1940- Charles Evans Whittaker 1956-57 Harry A. Blackmun 1959-70 Myron H. Bright 1968-85 William H. Webster 1973-78 Richard Sheppard Arnold 1980-2001 Pasco Middleton Bowman II 1983- Clarence Arlen Beam 1987- Morris Sheppard Arnold 1992- Kermit E. Bye 2000-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1916 Oct 24: Elmer Bragg Adams, died in office.
  • 1932 Jan 1: Wilbur Franklin Booth, took senior status.
  • 1959 Jun 30: John B. Sanborn, took senior status.
  • 1985 Jun 1: Myron H. Bright, took senior status.
  • 2001 Apr 1: Richard Sheppard Arnold, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1892-2000 (may be incomplete!)
    Joseph McKenna 1892-97 William W. Morrow 1897-1922 William H. Hunt 1913-28 Wallace McCamant 1925- Curtis Dwight Wilbur 1929-31 William Henry Sawtelle 1931- Francis A. Garrecht 1933 Bert E. Haney 1935-36 Clifton Mathews 1935- Homer T. Bone 1944-56 Richard H. Chambers 1954-76 Stanley N. Barnes 1956-70 Montgomery Oliver Koelsch 1959-76 James Robert Browning 1961-2000 Benjamin C. Duniway 1961-76 Herbert Y. C. Choy 1971-84 Anthony M. Kennedy 1975-88 J. Blaine Anderson 1976-88 Betty Binns Fletcher 1979- Cecil F. Poole 1979-96 Arthur L. Alarcón 1979-92 Robert Boochever 1980-86 Charles E. Wiggins 1984-96 Robert R. Beezer 1984-96 Melvin T. Brunetti 1985-99 Marsha L. Berzon 2000-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1956 Jan 1: Homer T. Bone, took senior status.
  • 1970 Oct 31: Stanley N. Barnes, took senior status.
  • 1976 Jan 31: Montgomery Oliver Koelsch, took senior status.
  • 1976 Oct 5: Benjamin C. Duniway, took senior status.
  • 1976 Dec 31: Richard H. Chambers, took senior status.
  • 1984 Oct 3: Herbert Y. C. Choy, took senior status.
  • 1986 Jun 10: Robert Boochever, took senior status.
  • 1988 Apr 16: J. Blaine Anderson, died in office.
  • 1992 Nov 21: Arthur L. Alarcón, took senior status.
  • 1996 Jul 31: Robert R. Beezer, took senior status.
  • 1999 Nov 11: Melvin T. Brunetti, took senior status.
  • 2000 Sep 1: James Robert Browning, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, 1933-2002 (may be incomplete!)
    Sam G. Bratton 1933-61 Robert L. Williams 1937-39 Walter Huxman 1939-57 Alfred P. Murrah 1940-70 Jean Sala Breitenstein 1957-70 Oliver Seth 1962- John J. Hickey 1966-70 James E. Barrett 1971-87 William E. Doyle 1971-84 James K. Logan 1977-94 Stephen Hale Anderson 1985-2000 Bobby Ray Baldock 1985- Wade Brorby 1988-2001 Mary Beck Briscoe 1995-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1957 Apr 1: Walter Huxman, took senior status.
  • 1961 Mar 1: Sam G. Bratton, took senior status.
  • 1970 Jul 31: Jean Sala Breitenstein, took senior status.
  • 1970 Sep 22: John J. Hickey, died in office.
  • 1984 Dec 28: William E. Doyle, took senior status.
  • 1987 Apr 8: James E. Barrett, took senior status.
  • 1994 Aug 31: James K. Logan, took senior status.
  • 2000 Jan 1: Stephen Hale Anderson, took senior status.
  • 2001 May 25: Wade Brorby, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, 1981-2008 (may be incomplete!)
    John C. Godbold 1981-86 Frank M. Johnson, Jr. 1981-92 Robert Lanier Anderson III 1981- Stanley F. Birch, Jr. 1990- Susan Harrell Black 1992- Rosemary Barkett 1994- Charles R. Wilson 1999-

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1986: John C. Godbold, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1801-2005 (may be incomplete!)
    William Cranch 1801- William Cranch 1806- Buckner Thruston 1810-45 William Matthew Merrick 1854-63 Richard Henry Alvey 1893-1905 Louis E. McComas 1905-07 D. Lawrence Groner 1931-48 Fred M. Vinson 1938-43 Henry White Edgerton 1938-63 Wiley B. Rutledge 1939-43 Thurman W. Arnold 1943-45 Bennett Clark 1945- Wilbur K. Miller 1945-64 Elijah Barrett Prettyman 1945-62 David L. Bazelon 1949-79 George Thomas Washington 1949-65 Charles Fahy 1949-67 John A. Danaher 1953- Walter Maximillian Bastian 1954-65 Warren E. Burger 1956-69 J. Skelly Wright 1962- Carl McGowan 1963- Spotswood William Robinson III 1966- George E. MacKinnon 1969- J. Walter Yeagley 1970-79 Abner J. Mikva 1979- Patricia McGowan Wald 1979- Harry Thomas Edwards 1980- Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1980-93 Robert H. Bork 1982-88 Antonin Scalia 1982-86 Kenneth W. Starr 1983-89 Laurence Hirsch Silberman 1985- James L. Buckley 1985-96 Stephen F. Williams 1986- Douglas Howard Ginsburg 1986- David Bryan Sentelle 1987- Clarence Thomas 1990-91 A. Raymond Randolph 1990- John Roberts 2003-05

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1845 Aug 30: Buckner Thruston, died in office.
  • 1905 Jan 1: Richard Henry Alvey, resigned.
  • 1907 Nov 10: Louis E. McComas, died in office.
  • 1945 Jul 9: Thurman W. Arnold, resigned.
  • 1948 Mar 8: D. Lawrence Groner, took senior status.
  • 1965 Mar 16: Walter Maximillian Bastian, took senior status.
  • 1979 Jun 30: David L. Bazelon, took senior status.
  • 1988 Feb 5: Robert H. Bork, resigned.
  • 1996 Aug 31: James L. Buckley, took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1982-97 (may be incomplete!)
    J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. 1982-86 Phillip Benjamin Baldwin 1982-86 Marion T. Bennett 1982-86 Howard Thomas Markey 1982- Helen Wilson Nies 1982- Giles Sutherland Rich 1982- Jean Galloway Bissell 1984-90 Glenn Leroy Archer, Jr. 1985-97

    Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1986 Mar 1: Marion T. Bennett, took senior status.
  • 1986 Apr 14: J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., died in office.
  • 1986 Nov 24: Phillip Benjamin Baldwin, took senior status.
  • 1990 Feb 4: Jean Galloway Bissell, died in office.
  • 1997 Dec 24: Glenn Leroy Archer, Jr., took senior status.

    Judges of U.S. Courts of Appeals (circuit unspecified), 1801-1980 (may be incomplete!)
    John Lowell 1801-02 Dabney Carr 1824-37 William H. Taft 1892-1900 William Rufus Day 1899-1903 J. Earl Major 1937-56 Latham Castle 1959-80

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