1. William Paca (1740)

United States Federal Judge

Early American politician who was the third Governor of Maryland from 1782 to 1785. He was also a Maryland State Senator and longtime Judge of the U.S. Court for Maryland....

2. John Jay (1745)

United States Federal Judge

Founding father who was the second Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801. He also served as the the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

3. James Iredell (1751)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1790 to 1799.

4. Thomas Todd (1765)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1807 to 1826.

5. Joseph Story (1779)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845.

6. John McKinley (1780)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1852.

7. John McLean (1785)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1829 to 1861.

8. Robert Trimble (1776)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1826 to 1828.

9. John Catron (1786)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1837 to 1865.

10. Melville Fuller (1833)

United States Federal Judge

Served as the eighth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1888 to 1910.

11. Julian Mack (1866)

United States Federal Judge

Twentieth-century federal judge and reformer who was a member of the Democratic Party. His appointments to the United States Commerce Court and the United States Court of Appeals were confirmed...

12. Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1932 to 1938.

13. Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884)

United States Federal Judge

Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court who was the first woman ever on a state supreme court. She was the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals...

14. Earl Warren (1891)

United States Federal Judge

Served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 until 1969.

15. Abe Fortas (1910)

United States Federal Judge

Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1965 to 1969.

16. Bailey Brown (1917)

United States Federal Judge

American federal judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals beginning in 1979.

17. Betty Binns Fletcher (1923)

United States Federal Judge

Former appointed United States Circuit Judge of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit courthouse district of San Francisco. She was a member of the Washington State Bar Association and one of the...

18. James DeAnda (1925)

United States Federal Judge

Attorney, U.S. federal judge, and a defender of Hispanic civil rights who was notably the plaintiff's attorney in the iconic civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas.

19. Robert Bork (1927)

United States Federal Judge

Legal scholar who was nominated for the Supreme Court in 1987 but had his appointment derailed by left-leaning groups who disagreed with his philosophy.

20. Guido Calabresi (1932)

United States Federal Judge

Italian American legal scholar who served as Dean of Yale Law School. He was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1994.

21. David Gregory Kays (1962)

United States Federal Judge

David Gregory Kays is a United States federal judge. Born in Kansas City Missouri Kays received a B. S. from Southwest Missouri State University in 1985 and a J. D....

22. Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. (Unknow)

United States Federal Judge

Thomas Woodrow Thrash Jr. is a United States federal judge. Born in Birmingham Alabama Thrash received a B. A. from the University of Virginia in 1973 and a J....

23. Jack B. Weinstein (1921)

United States Federal Judge

Jack Bertrand Weinstein is a United States federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. Weinstein was appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson. From 1980 to 1988 he...

24. Carl Olaf Bue, Jr. (1922)

United States Federal Judge

Carl Olaf Bue Jr. is a United States federal judge. Born in Chicago Illinois Bue received a Ph. B. from Northwestern University in 1951 and an LL. B. from...

25. Walter Kelley (1955)

United States Federal Judge

DeKalb Kelley Jr. is an American jurist who has served as federal judge on the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from August 2004 to...

26. James L. Buckley (1923)

United States Federal Judge

James Lane Buckley is a retired judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He previously served as a United States Senator from the...

27. Martin Karl Reidinger (Unknow)

United States Federal Judge

Martin Karl Reidinger is a United States federal judge. Born in New Haven Connecticut Reidinger received a B. A. from the University of North Carolina in 1981 and a J....

28. James Paul Churchill (1924)

United States Federal Judge

James Paul Churchill is a United States federal judge. Born in Imlay City Michigan Churchill was in the United States Army during World War II from 1943 to 1946. He...

29. James Randal Hall (1958)

United States Federal Judge

James Randal Hall is a United States federal judge. Born in Augusta Georgia Hall received a B. A. from Augusta College in 1979 and a J. D. from the University...

30. Shirley Brannock Jones (Unknow)

United States Federal Judge

Shirley Brannock Jones is a former United States federal judge. Born in Cambridge Maryland Jones received an A. A. from the University of Baltimore Junior College in 1944 and a...

31. Arthur Donald Spatt (1925)

United States Federal Judge

Arthur Donald Spatt is a United States federal judge. Born in Brooklyn New York Spatt was a Navigation Petty Officer in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946 and...

32. Patricia Head Minaldi (Unknow)

United States Federal Judge

Patricia Head Minaldi is a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. She joined the court in 2003 after being nominated by President...

33. Sam A. Crow (1926)

United States Federal Judge

Sam A. Crow is a United States federal judge. Born in Topeka Kansas in 1926 Crow was a seaman in the United States Navy during World War II from 1944...

34. Albert Vickers Bryan, Jr. (1926)

United States Federal Judge

Albert Vickers Bryan Jr. is a United States federal judge. Born in Alexandria Virginia Bryan's father Albert Vickers Bryan was also a federal judge. Bryan served in the United...

35. James Lawrence King (1927)

United States Federal Judge

James Lawrence King is the senior United States federal judge in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and one of the longest serving federal judges...

36. Louis Charles Bechtle (1927)

United States Federal Judge

Louis Charles Bechtle is a former United States federal judge. Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania Bechtle was in the United States Army from 1946 to 1947 then received a B. S....

37. Harold Lloyd Murphy (1927)

United States Federal Judge

Harold Lloyd Murphy is a United States federal judge. Born in Haralson County Georgia Murphy was in the United States Navy towards the end of World War II from 1945...

38. Herman Jacob Weber (1927)

United States Federal Judge

Herman Jacob Weber is a United States federal judge. Born in Lima Ohio Weber was in the United States Navy just after World War II from 1945 to 1946. He...

39. Bruce Sterling Jenkins (1927)

United States Federal Judge

Bruce Sterling Jenkins is a United States federal judge. Born in Salt Lake City Utah Jenkins was in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946 and then received a...

40. James Carroll Fox (Unknow)

United States Federal Judge

James Carroll Fox is a United States federal judge. Born in Atchison Kansas Fox received a B. S. from the University of North Carolina in 1950 and was in the...

41. Barbara Kloka Hackett (1928)

United States Federal Judge

Barbara Kloka Hackett is a United States federal judge. Born in Detroit Michigan Hackett received a Ph. B. from the University of Detroit in 1948 and a J. D. from...

42. George Ross Anderson, Jr. (1929)

United States Federal Judge

George Ross Anderson Jr. is a senior United States federal judge. Anderson was born in Anderson South Carolina. He earned his baccalaureate degree from Southeastern University in 1949 studied...

43. Charles C. Lovell (1929)

United States Federal Judge

Charles C. Lovell is a United States federal judge. Born in Anaconda Montana Lovell received a B. S. from the University of Montana in 1952 and was in the U....

44. Finis E. Cowan (1929)

United States Federal Judge

s E. Cowan is a former United States federal judge. Born in Dallas Texas Cowan received a B. A. from Rice University in 1951 and an LL. B. from the...

45. Cynthia Holcomb Hall (1929)

United States Federal Judge

Cynthia Holcomb Hall was a United States federal judge.

46. Carolyn R. Dimmick (1929)

United States Federal Judge

Carolyn R. Dimmick is a United States federal judge. Born in Seattle Washington Dimmick received a B. A. from the University of Washington in 1951 and a J. D. from...

47. Lowell A. Reed, Jr. (Unknow)

United States Federal Judge

Lowell A. Reed Jr. is a United States federal judge. Born in West Chester Pennsylvania Reed received a B. B. A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1952 and...

48. Lloyd D. George (1930)

United States Federal Judge

Lloyd D. George is a United States federal judge. Born in Montpelier Idaho George was raised in Las Vegas and was the class president of the 1948 class of Las...

49. James Hughes Hancock (1931)

United States Federal Judge

James Hughes Han* is a United States federal judge. Born in Montgomery Alabama Han* received a B. S. from the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa in 1953 and was a Lieutenant...

50. Ronald Rene Lagueux (1931)

United States Federal Judge

Ronald Rene Lagueux June 30 1931) is a United States federal judge.