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James Benton Parsons (1949): [36] [37] First African American male to serve as a Judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois (1959; William J. Haddad: [64] [65] First Arab American male to serve as a Judge (2003) and Chief Judge (2023) of the Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois
Note that, due to the several changes in the size of the Court since it was established in 1789, two seats have been abolished, both as a result of the Judicial Circuits Act of 1866 (and before the Court established the practice of hiring law clerks). Consequently, neither "seat 5" nor "seat 7" has a list article.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, 116 people have served on the Court. The length of service on the Court for the 107 non-incumbent justices ranges from William O. Douglas's 36 years, 209 days to John Rutledge's 1 year, 18 days as associate justice and, separated by a period of years off the Court, his 138 days as chief justice.
Justice Leondra Kruger of the California Supreme Court clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens from 2003 until 2004. Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each Associate Justice is permitted to employ four law clerks per Court term; the Chief Justice may employ five. Most ...
The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Jussie Smollett, the former “Empire” actor whose convictions for staging a hate crime caused fevered international media attention.
The United States District Court for the District of Illinois was established by a statute passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1819, 3 Stat. 502. [1] [2] The act established a single office for a judge to preside over the court.
Among the current members of the court, Clarence Thomas's tenure of 12,179 days (33 years, 125 days) [B] is the longest, while Ketanji Brown Jackson's 971 days (2 years, 240 days) [B] is the shortest. The table below ranks all United States Supreme Court justices by time in office.