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Separate lists are maintained for active service, during which a judge will normally maintain a full caseload, as well as for total service, combining active service and senior service. The caseload of a senior judge may range from full to inactive. [1] [2] Data on judges' dates of service is maintained by the Federal Judicial Center. [3]
Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges.To qualify, a judge in the federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and have served at least 10 years, and the sum of the judge's age and years of service as a federal judge must be at least 80 years. [1]
168 United States Article III federal judges died in active service between the enactment of legislation in 1919 allowing judges over the age of 70 with more than 10 years of judicial service to serve in what later became known as senior status, and the expansion of that legislation in 1954 to cover judges over the age of 65 with more than 15 ...
The theme emerging from these judges canceling their retirements is that they’d rather stick it out for another four years on the federal bench and hope to be replaced by a potential Democratic ...
Of those, 70 district judges and 34 appeals court judges are eligible to take senior status, whereby judges take on a lesser role but maintain their title, or retire on full pay, according to an ...
When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest-serving judge who had not elected to retire, on what has since 1958 been known as senior status, or declined to serve as chief judge. After August 6, 1959, judges could not become or remain chief after turning 70 years old.
Robert Sherlock Smith (born August 31, 1944) [1] is a former Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Smith retired on December 31, 2014, as the State Constitution's requirement that judges retire at the end of the calendar year in which they reached the age of 70.
Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig of Tyler says the Supreme Court ruling on presidential ... and had served on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for 15 years ending in 2006, said he ...