Judicial appointment history for United States federal courts
- Judicial appointment history for United States federal courts
The appointment of federal judges has become viewed as a political process in the last several decades. This is especially true of U.S. Supreme Court and court of appeals appointments. These charts show the composition of the Supreme and circuit courts at the end of each four year Presidential term, categorizing the judges by the Presidential term during which they were nominated for their seat.
Most federal courts currently (2007) have a majority of Republican President appointees. However, the party of the President who appointed a judge is not always a good indicator of that judge's judicial philosophy and place on the political spectrum.
Supreme Court
* There are temporarily only 178 existing appellate federal judgeships, due to the elimination of a 12th seat on the D.C. Circuit by the Court Security Improvement Act of 2007. However, the Act also provided for the creation of a 29th seat on the Ninth Circuit in January 2009. All figures on this page are calculated as if there are still 179 seats.
=Second Circuit=
=Fifth Circuit=
=Eighth Circuit=
=Eleventh Circuit=
Note: The Federal Circuit was created in 1982. The judges that sat on the courts that were combined into the Federal circuit are shown in 1980 for trend comparison purposes.
Acronym key
See also
*Bush Supreme Court candidates
*Federal judge
External links
* [http://www.aei-brookings.org/admin/authorpdfs/page.php?id=286 Ideological Voting on Federal Courts of Appeals]
* [http://www.uscourts.gov/cfapps/webnovada/CF_FB_301/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reports.ViewVacancies Federal Judicial Vacancies and Nominees Pending]
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