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President Bill Clinton made two appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States, both during his first term. On March 19, 1993, Associate Justice Byron White announced his retirement (and assumption of senior status ), which ultimately took effect June 28, 1993. [ 1 ]
Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Bill Clinton during his presidency. [1] In total Clinton appointed 378 Article III federal judges, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 66 judges to the United States courts of appeals, 305 judges to the United States district courts and 5 judges to the United States Court of ...
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...
Because appointees to the short-lived United States Commerce Court were duly appointed as United States circuit judges, they are counted as circuit judges.Those individuals appointed to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the United States Court of Claims during the period those courts existed as Article III courts are counted as circuit judges.
The second woman, named by President Bill Clinton in 1993, was Ginsburg, Carter’s earlier appellate court choice. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.com Show comments
Clinton made 72 nominations for federal judgeships that were not confirmed by the Senate. Of these, one, Ronnie L. White, was rejected by the Senate, 11 were withdrawn by President Clinton, 10 were withdrawn by President George W. Bush, while the other 50 expired at an adjournment of the Senate, including 32 that were pending at the close of the 106th Congress.
And despite never getting to appoint a Supreme Court nominee, Carter's judicial appointments were history-making in their own right. ... Bill Clinton to serve on the Supreme Court in the early ...
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