| Authorizing Legislation | First Circuit | Second Circuit | Third Circuit | Fourth Circuit | Fifth Circuit | Sixth Circuit | Seventh Circuit | Eighth Circuit | Ninth Circuit |
| April 10, 1869 16 Stat. 44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| March 3, 1887 24 Stat. 492 |  | 2 | | | | | | | |
| March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| July 23, 1894 28 Stat. 115 | | | | | | | | 3 | |
| February 8, 1895 28 Stat. 643 | | | | | | | 3 | | |
| February 18, 1895 28 Stat. 665 | | | | | | | | | 3 |
| January 25, 1899 30 Stat. 803 | | | | | 3 | 3 | | | |
| February 23, 1899 30 Stat. 846 | | | 3 | | | | | | |
| April 17, 1902 32 Stat. 106 | | 4 | | | | | | | |
| January 31, 1903 32 Stat. 791 | | | | | | | | 4 | |
| January 21, 1905 33 Stat. 611 | 3 | | | | | | | | |
| March 3, 1905 33 Stat. 992 | | | | | | | 4 | | |
U.S. Circuit Court Judges, 1869-1911
Judges of the First Circuit
Shepley, George Foster (1869-1878)
Lowell, John (1878-1884)
Colt, LeBaron Bradford (1884-1911)
Putnam, William LeBaron (1892-1911)
Lowell, Francis Cabot (1905-1911)
Schofield, William (1911)
Judges of the Second Circuit
Woodruff, Lewis Bartholomew (1869-1875)
Johnson, Alexander Smith (1875-1878)
Blatchford, Samuel M. (1878-1882)
Wallace, William James (1882-1907)
Lacombe, Emile Henry (1887-1911)
Shipman, Nathaniel (1892-1902)
Townsend, William Kneeland (1902-1907)
Coxe, Alfred Conkling Sr.(1902-1911)
Ward, Henry Galbraith (1907-1911)
Noyes, Walter Chadwick (1907-1911)
Knapp, Martin Augustine (1910-1911)
Judges of the Third Circuit
McKennan, William (1869-1891)
Acheson, Marcus Wilson (1891-1906)
Dallas, George Mifflin (1892-1909)
Gray, George (1899-1911)
Buffington, Joseph (1906-1911)
Lanning, William Mershon (1909-1911)
Archbald, Robert Wodrow (1911)
Judges of the Fourth Circuit
Bond, Hugh Lennox (1870-1893)
Goff, Nathan (1892-1911)
Simonton, Charles Henry (1893-1904)
Pritchard, Jeter Connelly (1904-1911)
Judges of the Fifth Circuit
Woods, William Burnham (1869-1880)
Pardee, Don Albert (1881-1911)
McCormick, Andrew Phelps (1892-1911)
Shelby, David Davie (1899-1911)
Judges of the Sixth Circuit
Emmons, Halmor Hull (1870-1877)
Baxter, John (1877-1886)
Jackson, Howell Edmunds (1886-1893)
Taft, William Howard (1892-1900)
Lurton, Horace Harmon (1893-1909)
Day, William Rufus (1899-1903)
Severens, Henry Franklin (1900-1911)
Richards, John Kelvey (1903-1909)
Warrington, John Wesley (1909-1911)
Knappen, Loyal Edwin (1910-1911)
Denison, Arthur Carter (1911)
Judges of the Seventh Circuit
Drummond, Thomas (1869-1884)
Gresham, Walter Quintin (1884-1893)
Woods, William Allen (1892-1901)
Jenkins, James Graham (1893-1905)
Showalter, John William (1895-1898)
Grosscup, Peter Stenger (1899-1911)
Baker, Francis Elisha (1902-1911)
Seaman, William Henry (1905-1911)
Kohlsaat, Christian Cecil (1905-1911)
Mack, Julian William (1911)
Judges of the Eighth Circuit
Dillon, John Forrest (1869-1879)
McCrary, George Washington (1879-1884)
Brewer, David Josiah (1884-1890)
Caldwell, Henry Clay (1890-1903)
Sanborn, Walter Henry (1892-1911)
Thayer, Amos Madden (1894-1905)
Van Devanter, Willis (1903-1910)
Hook, William Cather (1903-1911)
Adams, Elmer Bragg (1905-1911)
Carland, John Emmett (1911)
Smith, Walter Inglewood (1911)
Judges of the Ninth Circuit
Sawyer, Lorenzo (1870-1891)
McKenna, Joseph (1892-1897)
Gilbert, William Ball (1892-1911)
Ross, Erskine Mayo (1895-1911)
Morrow, William W. (1897-1911)
Hunt, William Henry (1911)