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Senior Judge E. Richard Webber: inactive: 1942 1995–2009 — 2009–present Clinton: 33 Senior Judge Nanette Kay Laughrey [Note 1] none [Note 3] 1946 1996–2011 — 2011–present Clinton: 34 Senior Judge Rodney W. Sippel [Note 1] St. Louis: 1956 1997–2023 2016–2022 2023–present Clinton: 36 Senior Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. Cape ...
The United States district courts are the general federal trial courts. There are 94 U.S. District Courts, one for each of the 94 federal judicial districts. [1] The U.S. District Courts and federal judicial districts are organized according to U.S. state boundaries.
The thirteenth is the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which has nationwide jurisdiction over appeals of certain, specific subject matter, for example, patent law. Congress has authorized 179 judgeships, [ 1 ] though the total number of judges will be higher than 179 because of some judges electing senior status.
The Democratic-led U.S. Senate voted to confirm two of Biden's nominees to serve as life-tenured federal trial court judges in California, capping off a four-year effort by the White House to ...
Judge Aileen Cannon had been on the federal bench for little more than a year when a senior judge offered to preside over one of her first criminal trials in her isolated south Florida courthouse.
In the United States, a federal judge is a judge who serves on a court established under Article Three of the U.S. Constitution.Often called "Article III judges", federal judges include the chief justice and associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, circuit judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, district judges of the U.S. District Courts, and judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Other federal judges, including circuit judges and Supreme Court justices, can also sit in a district court upon assignment by the chief judge of the circuit or by the Chief Justice of the United States. The number of judges in each district court (and the structure of the judicial system generally) is set by Congress in the United States Code.
Article III courts (also called Article III tribunals) are the U.S. Supreme Court and the inferior courts of the United States established by Congress, which currently are the 13 United States courts of appeals, the 91 United States district courts (including the districts of D.C. and Puerto Rico, but excluding the territorial district courts of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the ...