Since the establishment in 1922 of the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (renamed the Judicial Conference of the United States in 1948), the Chief Justice of the United States, or the senior associate justice if the Chief is unable, has been responsible for presiding over the conference and for summoning the senior judge, later the chief judge, on each circuit court of appeals. The size of the conference nearly doubled following an act of 1957 that provided for the appellate and district judges in each circuit to elect a district judge to represent the circuit on the conference for a term of three years. Congress had first expanded representation on the conference in 1956 with the addition of the chief judge of the Court of Claims. At that time, the judges of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals declined to include a representative on the conference, but beginning in 1961 the chief judge of that court also served on the conference. The chief judges of these two courts continued to serve on the conference until 1982 when their courts merged to become the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 1990, Congress provided that the chief judge of the Court of International Trade was to serve on the Judicial Conference and in 1996 expanded the district judge term up to five years and allowed senior district judges to be members.
The following list of Judicial Conference service is organized by the circuits and courts represented. It was compiled largely from the Reports of the Proceedings of the Judicial Conference and is complete through the most recent meeting of the conference. The list contains the names of those judges who were members of the conference, rather than those who may occasionally have attended in their absence. District Judges are identified by the district in which they served.
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| William Howard Taft Charles Evans Hughes Harlan Fiske Stone Frederick Moore Vinson Hugo Lafayette Black Earl Warren Warren Earl Burger William H. Rehnquist John Paul Stevens John G. Roberts, Jr. | 1922 – 1929 1929 – 1941 1941 – 1945 1946 – 1953 1953 1954 – 1969 1969 – 1986 1987 – 2005 2005 2006 – present | |
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| First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges George H. Bingham Scott Wilson Calvert Magruder Peter Woodbury Bailey Aldrich Frank M. Coffin Levin H. Campbell Stephen G. Breyer Juan R. Torruella Michael Boudin Sandra Lynch District Judges George Clinton Sweeney (MA) Francis Ford (MA) Edward T. Gignoux (ME) Andrew Caffrey (MA) Raymond J. Pettine (RI) W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. (MA) Juan M. Perez-Gimenez (PR) Frank H. Freedman (MA) Francis J. Boyle (RI) Joseph L. Tauro (MA) Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr. (NH) D. Brock Hornby (ME) Hector M. Laffitte (PR) Ernest C. Torres (RI) Mary M. Lisi (RI) Mark L. Wolf (MA) | 1922 – 1938 1939 1940 – 1959 1959 – 1964 1965 – 1972 1972 – 1983 1983 – 1990 1990 – 1994 1994 – 2001 2001 – 2008 2008 – present 1958 – 1961 1961 – 1967 1967 – 1973 1973 – 1979 1979 – 1982 1982 – 1985 1985 – 1988 1988 – 1991 1991 – 1994 1995 – 1997 1998 – 2000 2000 – 2003 2003 – 2006 2007 – 2009 2009 2009 – 2012 | |
| Paul J. Barbadoro (NH) | 2012 – present | |
| Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Henry Wade Rogers Charles Merrill Hough Martin T. Manton Learned Hand Thomas W. Swan Harrie B. Chase Charles E. Clark J. Edward Lumbard Henry J. Friendly Irving R. Kaufman Wilfred Feinberg James L. Oakes Thomas J. Meskill Jon O. Newman Ralph K. Winter, Jr. John M. Walker, Jr. Dennis G. Jacobs Robert A. Katzmann District judges Edward Jordan Dimock (S.D. NY) Sylvester J. Ryan (S.D. NY) Sidney Sugarman (S.D. NY) David N. Edelstein (S.D. NY) Jacob Mishler (E.D. NY) T. Emmet Clarie (CT) Lloyd F. MacMahon (S.D. NY) Constance B. Motley (S.D. NY) Jack B. Weinstein (E.D. NY) John T. Curtin (W.D. NY) Charles L. Brieant (S.D. NY) Peter Dorsey (CT) Charles P. Sifton (E.D. NY) Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. (N.D. NY) Michael B. Mukasey (S.D. NY) Kimba M. Wood (S.D. NY) William K. Sessions III (VT) Raymond J. Dearie (E.D. NY) | 1922 – 1925 1926 1926 – 1938 1939 – 1951 1951 – 1953 1953 – 1954 1954 – 1959 1960 – 1971 1971 – 1973 1973 – 1980 1980 – 1988 1989 – 1992 1992 – 1993 1993 – 1997 1997 – 2000 2000 – 2006 2006 – 2013 2013 – present 1958 – 1959 1959 – 1968 1968 – 1971 1971 – 1974 1974 – 1977 1977 – 1980 1980 – 1982 1982 – 1983 1983 – 1986 1986 – 1989 1989 – 1995 1996 – 1998 1998 – 2001 2001 – 2004 2005 – 2006 2006 – 2007 2007 – 2010 2010 – 2011 | |
| Carol Bagley Amon (E.D. NY) | 2011 – present | |
| Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Joseph Buffington John Warren Davis John Biggs, Jr. Harry E. Kalodner Austin Staley William H. Hastie Collins J. Seitz Ruggero J. Aldisert John J. Gibbons A. Leon Higginbotham Dolores Sloviter Edward R. Becker Anthony J. Scirica Theodore A. McKee District judges Phillip Forman (NJ) James Cullen Ganey (E.D. PA) Thomas M. Madden (NJ) Thomas James Clary (E.D. PA) Wallace S. Gourley (W.D. PA) Caleb M. Wright (DE) Michael Sheridan (M.D. PA) Lawrence A. Whipple (NJ) Alfred A. Luongo (E.D. PA) Gerald J. Weber (W.D. PA) Walter K. Stapleton (DE) Murray M. Schwartz (DE) William J. Nealon (M.D. PA) John G. Gerry (NJ) Edward N. Cahn (E.D. PA) Donald E. Ziegler (W.D. PA) Sue L. Robinson (DE) Thomas I. Vanaskie (M.D. PA) Garrett E. Brown, Jr. (NJ) Harvey Bartle III (E.D. PA) | 1922 – 1937 1938 1939 – 1965 1966 1966 – 1967 1968 – 1971 1971 – 1984 1984 – 1986 1987 – 1989 1990 1991 – 1997 1998 – 2003 2003 – 2010 2010 – present 1957 – 1959 1959 – 1961 1961 – 1966 1966 – 1968 1968 – 1970 1970 – 1972 1972 – 1975 1975 – 1978 1978 – 1981 1981 – 1984 1984 – 1985 1985 – 1987 1987 – 1990 1990 – 1994 1994 – 1997 1998 – 2000 2000 – 2003 2003 – 2005 2005 – 2008 2008 – 2011 | |
| Gary L. Lancaster (W.D. PA) Sean J. McLaughlin (W.D. PA) Joy F. Conti (W.D. PA) | 2011 – 2013 2013 2013 – present | |
| Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Charles Albert Woods Edmund Waddill, Jr. John Johnston Parker Simon E. Sobeloff Clement F. Haynsworth Harrison L. Winter Sam J. Ervin III J. Harvie Wilkinson III William W. Wilkins Karen J. Williams William B. Traxler, Jr. District judges Roszel C. Thomsen (MD) Walter E. Hoffman (E.D. VA) Oren R. Lewis (E.D. VA) Charles E. Simons (E.D. SC) Robert R. Merhige (E.D. VA) Frank Kaufman (MD) W. Earl Britt (E.D. NC) Charles H. Haden II (S.D. WV) David C. Norton (SC) James P. Jones (W.D. VA) Deborah K. Chasanow (D. MD) | 1922 – 1924 1925 – 1930 1931 – 1957 1958 – 1964 1964 – 1981 1981 – 1989 1989 – 1995 1996 – 2003 2003 – 2007 2007 – 2009 2009 – present 1958 – 1964 1964 – 1970 1970 – 1973 1973 – 1979 1980 – 1985 1985 – 1991 1991 – 1997 1998 – 2002 2003 – 2007 2007 – 2011 2011 – present | |
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| Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Richard White Walker Nathan Philemon Bryan Rufus Edward Foster Samuel Hale Sibley Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr. Richard Taylor Rives Elbert Parr Tuttle John R. Brown James P. Coleman John C. Godbold Charles C. Clark Henry A. Politz Carolyn Dineen King Edith Hollan Jones Carl E. Stewart District judges Seybourn Harris Lynne (N.D. AL) Ben Clarkson Connally (S.D. TX) John Milton Bryan Simpson (M.D. FL) Herbert William Christenberry (E.D. LA) G. Harrold Carswell (N.D. FL) Joe Ewing Estes (N.D. TX) E. Gordon West (E.D. LA, M.D. LA) Alexander Lawrence (S.D. GA) William C. Keady (N.D. MS) John V. Singleton (S.D. TX) Adrian G. Duplantier (E.D. LA) L. T. Senter, Jr. (N.D. MS) Barefoot Sanders (N.D. TX) Morey L. Sear (E.D. LA) William H. Barbour (S.D. MS) Hayden W. Head, Jr. (S.D. TX) Martin L. C. Feldman (E.D. LA) Glen H. Davidson (N.D. MS) Sim Lake III (S.D. TX) Sarah S. Vance (E.D. LA) | 1922 – 1929 1930 – 1934 1935 – 1941 1942 – 1947 1948 – 1959 1959 – 1960 1961 – 1967 1967 – 1979 1980 1981 1982 – 1991 1992 – 1998 1999 – 2006 2006 – 2012 2012 – present 1958 – 1959 1959 – 1962 1962 – 1965 1965 – 1968 1968 – 1969 1969 – 1971 1971 – 1974 1974 – 1977 1977 – 1980 1980 – 1983 1983 – 1986 1986 – 1989 1989 – 1992 1992 – 1995 1996 – 1998 1999 – 2001 2001 – 2004 2005 – 2007 2007 – 2010 2010 – present | |
| Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Loyal Edwin Knappen Arthur C. Denison Charles H. Moorman Xenophon Hicks Charles C. Simmons Florence Ellinwood Allen John Donelson Martin Thomas Francis McAllister Shackelford Miller, Jr. Lester LeFevre Cecil Paul C. Weick Harry P. Phillips George C. Edwards, Jr. Pierce Lively Albert J. Engel Gilbert S. Merritt Boyce F. Martin, Jr. Danny J. Boggs Alice M. Batchelder District judges Paul J. Jones (N.D. OH) Marion Speed Boyd (W.D. TN) Ralph McKenzie Freeman (E.D. MI) Mac Swinford (E. & W.D. KY) Carl A. Weinman (S.D. OH) Robert L. Taylor (E.D. TN) Damon J. Keith (E.D. MI) Charles Allen (W.D. KY) Frank J. Battisti (N.D. OH) Robert M. McRae, Jr. (W.D. TN) Philip Pratt (E.D. MI) James P. Churchill (E.D. MI) Eugene Siler (E. & W.D. KY) Edward Johnstone (W.D. KY) Thomas Lambros (N.D. OH) John D. Holschuh (S.D. OH) S. Arthur Spiegel (S.D. OH) Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. (M.D. TN) Lawrence P. Zatkoff (E.D. MI) William O. Bertelsman (E.D. of KY) Charles R. Simpson III (W.D. of KY) Thomas M. Rose (S.D. OH) Solomon Oliver, Jr. (N.D. OH) Thomas A. Varlan (E.D. TN) | 1922 – 1923 1924 – 1931 1932 – 1937 1938 – 1951 1952 – 1958 1958 1959 1959 – 1960 1961 – 1962 1962 – 1963 1964 – 1969 1969 – 1978 1979 – 1983 1984 – 1988 1988 – 1989 1990 – 1996 1997 – 2003 2003 – 2009 2009 – present 1958 – 1960 1960 – 1963 1963 – 1966 1966 – 1969 1969 – 1972 1972 – 1975 1975 – 1978 1978 – 1981 1981 – 1984 1984 – 1987 1987 – 1989 1989 – 1990 1990 – 1991 1991 – 1993 1993 – 1994 1995 1995 – 1996 1997 – 2001 2001 – 2004 2005 – 2006 2006 – 2007 2007 – 2009 2009 – 2010 2010 – present | |
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| Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Francis Elisha Baker Samuel Alschuler Evan A. Evans William Morris Sparks James Earl Major Francis Ryan Duffy John S. Hastings Latham Castle Luther M. Swygert Thomas E. Fairchild Walter J. Cummings William J. Bauer Richard A. Posner Joel M. Flaum Frank H. Easterbrook Diane P. Wood District judges William Joseph Campbell (N.D. IL) Luther M. Swygert (N.D. IN) William E. Steckler (S.D. IN) Kenneth P. Grubb (E.D. WI) Edwin A. Robson (N.D. IL) Robert A. Grant (N.D. IN) James E. Doyle (W.D. WI) James B. Parsons (N.D. IL) S. Hugh Dillin (S.D. IN) John W. Reynolds (E.D. WI) Frank J. McGarr (N.D. IL) Sarah E. Barker (S.D. IN) Barbara Crabb (W.D. WI) Michael M. Mihm (C.D. IL) Robert L. Miller, Jr. (N.D. IN) Marvin E. Aspen (N.D. IL) J.P. Stadtmueller (E.D. WI) Wayne R. Anderson (N.D. IL) Richard L. Young (S.D. IN) | 1922 – 1923 1924 – 1934 1935 – 1947 1948 1949 – 1954 1954 – 1959 1959 – 1968 1968 – 1969 1970 – 1974 1975 – 1981 1981 – 1986 1987 – 1993 1994 – 2000 2000 – 2006 2006 – 2013 2013 – present 1958 – 1961 1961 1962 – 1964 1964 – 1965 1966 – 1969 1969 – 1972 1972 – 1975 1975 – 1978 1979 – 1982 1982 – 1985 1985 – 1987 1988 – 1991 1991 – 1994 1995 – 1997 1998 – 2000 2000 – 2003 2003 – 2006 2006 – 2009 2009 – 2012 | |
| Ruben Castillo (N.D. IL) | 2012 – present | |
| Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Walter Henry Sanborn Kimbrough Stone Archibald K. Gardner Harvey M. Johnsen Charles Joseph Vogel Martin D. Van Oosterhout Marion C. Matthes Pat Mehaffy Floyd R. Gibson Donald P. Lay Richard Arnold Pasco M. Bowman II Roger L. Wollman David R. Hansen James B. Loken William J. Riley District judges Gunnar Hans Nordbye (MN) John Elvis Miller (W.D. AR) Richard M. Duncan (E. & W.D. MO) Roy W. Harper (E. & W.D. MO) Oren Harris (E. & W.D. AR) James H. Meredith (E.D. MO) Albert G. Schatz (NB) John F. Nangle (E.D. MO) Donald E. O’Brien (N. & S.D. IA) James M. Rosenbaum (MN) Lawrence L. Piersol (SD) Rodney W. Sippel (E.D. MO) | 1922 – 1926 1927 – 1947 1947 – 1959 1959 – 1965 1965 – 1967 1968 – 1970 1970 – 1973 1973 – 1974 1974 – 1979 1980 – 1991 1992 – 1998 1998 – 1999 1999 – 2002 2002 – 2003 2003 – 2010 2010 – present 1958 – 1962 1962 – 1963 1963 – 1965 1965 – 1971 1971 – 1974 1974 – 1979 1979 – 1985 1985 – 1990 1991 – 1997 1998 – 2005 2006 – 2009 2009 – present | |
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| Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges William B. Gilbert Curtis Dwight Wilbur Francis Arthur Garrecht William Denman Albert Lee Stephens Walter Lyndon Pope Richard H. Chambers James R. Browning Alfred T. Goodwin J. Clifford Wallace Proctor R. Hug, Jr. Mary M. Schroeder Alex Kozinski District judges William C. Mathes (S.D. CA) William J. Lindberg (E. & W.D. WA) Gus J. Solomon (OR) Albert Wollenberg (N.D. CA) Fred M. Taylor (ID) Jesse W. Curtis (C.D. CA) Thomas J. MacBride (E.D. CA) Morell Sharp (W.D. WA) Ray McNichols (ID) Manuel L. Real (C.D. CA) Robert J. McNichols (E.D. WA) Robert F. Peckham (N.D. CA) William D. Browning (AZ) William Matthew Byrne, Jr. (C.D. CA) Lloyd D. George (NV) Judith N. Keep (S.D. CA) David Alan Ezra (HI) Charles R. Breyer (N.D. CA) Robert S. Lasnik (W.D. WA) | 1922 – 1930 1931 – 1944 1945 – 1947 1948 – 1957 1957 – 1958 1959 1959 – 1976 1976 – 1988 1988 – 1990 1991 – 1995 1996 – 2000 2001 – 2007 2007 – present 1958 – 1960 1960 – 1963 1963 – 1965 1966 – 1969 1969 – 1972 1972 – 1975 1975 – 1978 1978 – 1980 1980 – 1981 1981 – 1984 1984 – 1987 1987 – 1990 1990 – 1993 1993 – 1996 1997 – 1999 1999 – 2003 2003 – 2005 2006 – 2010 2010 – present | |
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| Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Robert E. Lewis Orie Leon Phillips Sam Gilbert Bratton Alfred P. Murrah David T. Lewis Oliver Seth William J. Holloway, Jr. Monroe McKay Stephanie K. Seymour Deanell R. Tacha Robert H. Henry Mary Beck Briscoe District Judges Eugene Rice (E.D. OK) Royce H. Savage (N.D. OK) Ewing Thomas Kerr (WY) Alfred Albert Arraj (CO) Arthur J. Stanley, Jr. (KS) Olin Hatfield Chilson (CO) Frederick A. Daugherty (N., E. &W.D. OK) Wesley E. Brown (KS) Howard C. Bratton (NM) Luther B. Eubanks (W.D. OK) Sherman G. Finesilver (CO) Earl E. O’Connor (KS) Richard P. Matsch (CO) Clarence A. Brimmer (WY) Ralph G. Thompson (W.D. OK) Frank Howell Seay (E.D. OK) David L. Russell (W.D. OK) Alan B. Johnson (WY) Robin J. Cauthron (W.D. OK) | 1929 – 1940 1940 – 1955 1956 – 1959 1959 – 1970 1970 – 1977 1978 – 1984 1984 – 1991 1991 – 1993 1994 – 2000 2001 – 2007 2008 – 2010 2010 – present 1958 1958 – 1961 1962 – 1964 1964 – 1967 1967 – 1970 1970 – 1973 1973 – 1976 1976 – 1979 1979 – 1982 1982 – 1985 1985 – 1988 1988 – 1991 1991 – 1994 1994 – 1997 1998 – 2000 2000 – 2003 2003 – 2006 2006 – 2009 2009 – 2012 | |
| Dee Vance Benson (UT) | 2012 – present | |
| Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges John C. Godbold Paul H. Roney Gerald B. Tjoflat Joseph W. Hatchett R. Lanier Anderson III J. L. Edmondson Joel F. Dubina Edward E. Carnes District judges William C. O’Kelly (N.D. GA) James Lawrence King (S.D. FL) Sam C. Pointer (N.D. AL) Anthony Alaimo (S.D. GA) William Terrell Hodges (M.D. FL) Charles R. Butler, Jr. (S.D. AL) J. Owen Forrester (N.D. GA) Robert L. Hinkle (N.D. FL) Myron H. Thompson (M.D. AL) | 1982 – 1986 1986 – 1989 1990 – 1996 1997 – 1999 1999 – 2002 2002 – 2009 2009 – 2013 2013 – present 1982 – 1984 1984 – 1987 1987 – 1990 1990 – 1993 1994 – 1999 1999 – 2003 2003 – 2005 2006 – 2007 2007 – 2011 | |
| W. Louis Sands (M.D. GA) | 2011 – present | |
| District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges Duncan Lawrence Groner Harold Montelle Stephens Henry White Edgerton E. Barrett Prettyman Wilbur Kingsbury Miller David L. Bazelon J. Skelly Wright Carl McGowan Spottswood W. Robinson III Patricia M. Wald Abner Mikva Harry T. Edwards Douglas H. Ginsburg David B. Sentelle Merrick B. Garland District judges Bolitha Laws (DC) David Andrew Pine (DC) Matthew F. McGuire (DC) Edward M. Curran (DC) John J. Sirica (DC) George L. Hart (DC) William B. Jones (DC) William B. Bryant (DC) John Lewis Smith (DC) Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr. (DC) John Garrett Penn (DC) Norma Holloway Johnson (DC) Thomas F. Hogan (DC) Royce C. Lamberth (DC) Richard W. Roberts (DC) | 1938 – 1947 1948 – 1955 1955 – 1958 1959 – 1960 1961 – 1962 1963 – 1977 1978 – 1980 1981 1981 – 1986 1986 – 1990 1991 – 1994 1994 – 2001 2001 – 2008 2008 – 2013 2013 - present 1958 1959 – 1961 1961 – 1967 1968 – 1971 1971 – 1974 1974 – 1975 1975 – 1977 1977 – 1981 1981 – 1982 1982 – 1992 1992 – 1997 1997 – 2001 2001 – 2008 2008 – 2013 2013 – present | |
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| Federal Circuit Howard T. Markey Helen J. Nies Glen L. Archer Haldane Robert Mayer Paul R. Michel Randall R. Rader | 1983 – 1990 1990 – 1994 1994 – 1997 1998 – 2004 2004 – 2010 2010 – present | |
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| Court of Claims Marvin Jones Wilson Cowen Oscar H. Davis Daniel M. Friedman | 1956 – 1964 1964 – 1976 1977 – 1978 1978 – 1982 | |
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| Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Eugene Worley Howard T. Markey | 1961 – 1972 1972 – 1982 | |
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| Court of International Trade Edward D. Re Gregory Carman Dominick L. DiCarlo Gregory W. Carman Jane A. Restani Donald C. Pogue | 1990 – 1991 1991 1992 – 1996 1997 – 2003 2003 – 2010 2010 – present | |