- Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (born 1943 in New York) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Kollar-Kotelly obtained her J.D. from The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in 1968. From 1969 to 1972, Kollar-Kotelly was an attorney for the Department of Justice, after which she became chief legal counsel for St. Elizabeths Hospital.
- Gladys Kessler
Gladys Kessler is an United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia. She was nominated to the court by President Clinton, a Democrat, and is known as one of the most liberal judges in the D.D.C. Judge Kessler was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in July 1994. After receiving her B.A. from Cornell University and LL.B. from Harvard Law School, she was hired by the National Labor Relations Board.
- Harry E. Claiborne
Harry Eugene Claiborne (July 5 1917 - January 19 2004) was a United States District Court judge who was impeached for tax evasion. He was only the fifth person in U.S. history to be removed from office through impeachment by the U.S. Congress, and the first since Halsted Ritter in 1936. Harry Eugene Claiborne was born in McRae, Arkansas and graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in 1941. He was admitted to both the Arkansas and Nevada bars, …
- Marilyn Hall Patel
Judge Marilyn Hall Patel (b. 1938) is an active judge presiding in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She was Chief District Judge of that jurisdiction from 1997 until 2004, and heard several notable cases during that time. Marilyn Hall was born in Amsterdam, New York. She obtained a BA from Wheaton College in 1959 and a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University in 1963.
- Susan Illston
Susan Yvonne Illston is a San Francisco, California-based judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on January 23, 1995 and confirmed by the Senate on May 25, 1995. Prior to her appointment, she had served in private practice in Burlingame, California. She is a graduate of Duke University and Stanford Law School.
- Sarah T. Hughes
Sarah Tilghman Hughes (August 2, 1896 - April 23, 1985) was the United States District Court judge who swore Lyndon Johnson into the office of President on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination, becoming the first - and to date the only - woman in U.S. history to swear in a U.S. President (a task usually executed by the Chief Justice of the United States).
- James Robertson
James Robertson (born 1938) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. James Robertson was appointed a United States District Judge by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Chief Justice William Rehnquist later placed him on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. On December 20, 2005, Judge Robertson resigned his Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court position. After graduating from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, …
- Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but.
- Sterling Johnson Jr.
Sterling Johnson, Jr. (born May 14, 1934, Brooklyn, New York) is a senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Before his appointment to the bench in 1991, Johnson was an attorney for 30 years, specializing in drug enforcement and the prosecution of narcotics cases. As Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, …
- Thomas Penfield Jackson
Thomas Penfield Jackson (born January 10, 1937) was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 1982 after serving as president of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is currently an attorney with the Jackson and Campbell, P.C., law firm. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1958, and from Harvard Law School in 1964.
- Joyce Hens Green
Joyce Hens Green (b.1928) is a Senior United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia.
- Adalberto Jordan
Adalberto Jordan (born in 1961) is a Federal District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law, his alma mater. Jordan was born in Havana, Cuba, and came with his family to Miami, Florida when he was a young boy. Jordan received a B.A. in politics, magna cum laude, from the University of Miami, in 1984.
- James C. Cacheris
James C. Cacheris (born 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is currently serving as judge on the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia. Cacheris was educated at University of Pennsylvania where he earned a B.S. in 1955. He earned a J.D. in 1960 from The George Washington University Law School. Cacheris served as assistant corporation counsel from 1960 to 1962, in Washington, D.C., before entering private practice in 1962.
- Anna Diggs Taylor
Anna Diggs Taylor (born Anna Katherine Johnston, 1932, Washington, D.C.) is a United States District Court judge in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Barnard College in 1954 and Yale Law School in 1957, and worked in the Office of Solicitor for the United States Department of Labor. In 1979, she was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by President Jimmy Carter, …
- Royce C. Lamberth
Royce C. Lamberth is a judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Lamberth was born in 1943 in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas and from the University of Texas School of Law, receiving an LL.B. in 1967. He served as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the United States Army from 1968 to 1974, including one year in Vietnam.
- Susan Webber Wright
Susan Webber Wright (b. 1948) is a United States District Court judge presently serving as the chief judge of the Eastern District of Arkansas. She received national attention when she dismissed Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton in 1998. Wright was a student of Clinton's in a class on admiralty law while at the University of Arkansas law school; she later challenged him on her grade.
- Jack B. Weinstein
Jack B. Weinstein (born 1921, Kansas) is a United States federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. Judge Weinstein was appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson. From 1980 to 1988, he served as chief judge of the district. In 1993, he took senior status; however, unlike some senior judges, he has maintained a full docket (and more) as a senior judge.
- Ann Aiken
Ann L. Aiken (born December 29, 1951) is a United States District Court judge for the District of Oregon. Aiken was born in Salem, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1974, Rutgers University in 1976, and the University of Oregon School of Law in 1979. She was a district judge in Oregon from 1988 to 1992, a circuit judge in Oregon from 1992 to 1997.
- Kent A. Jordan
Kent A. Jordan (born October 24, 1957 in West Point, New York) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was previously a federal district judge on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
- James Lawrence King
James Lawrence King (born on December 20, 1927 in Miami, Florida) is the senior federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and one of the longest serving federal judges in the entire United States. Judge King was appointed to his current position on October 30, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. Although a life long Democrat himself, Judge King's nomination was forced on Nixon as a precondition to other nominees' approval by the Senate.
- Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley (14 September 1921-28 September 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, and state senator. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the ninth of twelve children. Her parents had immigrated from Nevis, in the Caribbean; her mother was the founder of the New Haven chapter of the NAACP. With financial help from a local philanthropist, Clarence Blakeslee, she initially attended Fisk University, …
- Reggie Walton
The Honorable Reggie B. Walton, (born Donora, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1949), is a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.
- David O. Carter
David O. Carter (born 1944 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a United States District Court Judge for the Central District of California.
- Gerald Bruce Lee
Gerald Bruce Lee (born 1952 in Washington, D.C.) is currently serving as judge on the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia, commonly referred to as the "Rocket Docket.".
- Terrence Boyle
Terrence W. Boyle (born December 22 1945, Passaic, New Jersey) is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He was appointed to that position by President Ronald Reagan on May 3 1984 following unanimous confirmation by the United States Senate. He was Chief Judge of that court from 1997-2004. Boyle received a B.A. from Brown University and a J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.
- William L. Hungate
William Leonard Hungate (December 14, 1922 - June 22, 2007) was a United States Representative from Missouri from November 3, 1964 (special election upon the death of Congressman Clarence Cannon) to January 3, 1977, representing the Ninth Congressional District. Following his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Hungate was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, …
- Stewart Dalzell
Stewart Dalzell is a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Born in 1943 in Hackensack, New Jersey, Judge Dalzell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business in 1965 and received his J.D.. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969. Judge Dalzell was a financial analyst for the National Broadcasting Co. in New York from 1965 to 1966, …
- Michael J. Davis
Judge Michael J. Davis (born 1947, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. President Bill Clinton nominated Davis on November 19, 1993, to a seat vacated by Harry H. MacLaughlin. Judge Davis was confirmed by the Senate on March 25, 1994, and received commission on March 28, 1994. In May 1999, Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed Davis to serve as a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
- Martin Jenkins
Judge Martin J. Jenkins (born 1954) is a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Judge Jenkins was appointed by President Clinton in 1997. Judge Jenkins attended the University of San Francisco School of Law. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Jenkins was a judge in the California state court system. Previously, Judge Jenkins worked as a prosecutor in Alameda County, California, …
- Nina Gershon
Nina Gershon (born 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) is a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York. She was appointed by President Clinton in 1996 at the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Gershon is known for her intelligence, legal ability, and "quiet and businesslike" approach to judging. Prior to her appointment as a district judge, Judge Gershon served for twenty years as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York.
- Leonie Brinkema
Leonie M. Brinkema (born 1944, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a United States District Court judge, in the Eastern District of Virginia. From Dutch descent, judge Brinkema received her B.A. from Douglass College in 1966 and undertook graduate studies in philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1966) and New York University (1967-1969). She earned her M.L.S. at Rutgers University in 1970 and her J.D. at Cornell University in 1976.
- William J. Martini
William J. "Bill" Martini (b. January 10, 1947 in Passaic, New Jersey) is a current United States district court judge. Before his judicial service, Martini was a Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district (map) in the House of Representatives, where he served from January 3, 1995-January 3, 1997. Martini graduated from Passaic High School, Villanova University in Philadelphia, …
- Garr M. King
Garr M. King (born 1936, Pocatello, Idaho) is a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He was appointment to the federal bench by President Clinton in 1997 to fill a vacancy left by Helen J. Frye's attaining senior judge status. A graduate of University of Utah, he received his LL.B. from Lewis & Clark College's Northwestern School of Law in 1963. Before becoming a federal judge, he served as a Multnomah County prosecutor, …
- Stanley R. Chesler
Stanley R. Chesler (born 1947, Brooklyn) is a United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey. Judge Chesler was nominated to his seat by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002, to a seat vacated by Judge Anne E. Thompson and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 14, 2002. Judge Chesler received his commission on December 4, 2002 and was sworn in thereafter. Judge Chesler graduated from Harpur College in 1968 and St.
- Raymond J. Dearie
Judge Raymond J. Dearie (born 1944 in Rockville Center, New York) is the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He was nominated by President Reagan on February 3, 1986, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333; confirmed by the United States Senate on March 14, 1986, and received commission on March 19, 1986.
- Joan Lefkow
Joan Humphrey Lefkow (born 1944) is a United States district court judge. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 11, 2000, to a seat vacated by Judge Ann C. Williams, and confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30 2000. Lefkow received her commission on July 11, 2000.
- Thomas Hogan
Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in August 1982 by Republican President Ronald Reagan and became Chief Judge on June 19, 2001.
- Avern Cohn
Judge Avern Cohn was born on July 23, 1924 to Irwin I. and Sadie Levin Cohn. He attended the University of Michigan, John Tarleton Agricultural College, Stanford University, and Loyola School of Medicine. He served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. He received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1949. He was admitted to the Michigan State Bar in December, 1949.
- T. John Ward
T. John Ward is a United States federal judge most famous for the large number of patent cases brought before him. His court is in Marshall, Texas. He serves in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
- Stanley Sporkin
Stanley Sporkin (born 1932) is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge June L. Green on April 5, 1985 by President Ronald Reagan, and was confirmed by the Senate on December 16; he received his commission the next day. He assumed senior status on February 12, 1999, and retired on January 15, 2000.