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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: Justices and Judges
Number of judges: 115
Cartter, David Kellogg (1863-1887)
Fisher, George Purnell (1863-1870)
Olin, Abram Baldwin (1863-1879)
Wylie, Andrew (1863-1885)
Humphreys, David Campbell (1870-1879)
MacArthur, Arthur (1870-1887)
Hagner, Alexander Burton (1879-1903)
Cox, Walter Smith (1879-1899)
James, Charles Pinckney (1879-1892)
Merrick, William Matthews (1885-1889)
Montgomery, Martin V. (1887-1892)
Bingham, Edward Franklin (1887-1903)
Bradley, Andrew Coyle (1889-1902)
McComas, Louis Emory (1892-1899)
Cole, Charles Cleaves (1893-1901)
Clabaugh, Harry M. (1899-1914)
Barnard, Job (1899-1914)
Anderson, Thomas H. (1901-1916)
Gould, Ashley Mulgrave (1902-1921)
Pritchard, Jeter Connelly (1903-1904)
Wright, Daniel Thew (1903-1914)
Stafford, Wendell Phillips (1904-1931)
Covington, James Harry (1914-1918)
McCoy, Walter Irving (1914-1929)
Siddons, Frederick Lincoln (1915-1931)
Hitz, William (1916-1931)
Bailey, Thomas Jennings (1918-1963)
Hoehling, Adolph A., Jr. (1921-1927)
Gordon, Peyton (1928-1946)
Wheat, Alfred Adams (1929-1943)
Adkins, Jesse Corcoran (1930-1955)
Luhring, Oscar Raymond (1930-1944)
Cox, Joseph Winston (1930-1939)
Proctor, James McPherson (1931-1948)
Letts, Fred Dickinson (1931-1965)
O'Donoghue, Daniel William (1931-1948)
Laws, Bolitha James (1938-1958)
Goldsborough, Thomas Alan (1939-1951)
Morris, James Ward (1939-1960)
Pine, David Andrew (1940-1970)
McGuire, Matthew Francis (1941-1986)
Eicher, Edward Clayton (1942-1944)
Schweinhaut, Henry Albert (1944-1970)
Holtzoff, Alexander (1945-1969)
Keech, Richmond Bowling (1946-1986)
Curran, Edward Matthew (1946-1988)
Tamm, Edward Allen (1948-1965)
Kirkland, James Robert (1949-1958)
Matthews, Burnita Shelton (1949-1988)
McLaughlin, Charles Francis (1949-1976)
Bastian, Walter Maximillian (1950-1954)
Youngdahl, Luther Wallace (1951-1978)
McGarraghy, Joseph Charles (1954-1975)
Sirica, John Joseph (1957-1992)
Hart, George Luzerne, Jr. (1958-1984)
Walsh, Leonard Patrick (1959-1980)
Jones, William Blakely (1962-1979)
Robinson, Spottswood William III (1964-1966)
Corcoran, Howard Francis (1965-1989)
Bryant, William Benson (1965-2005)
Gasch, Oliver (1965-1999)
Robinson, Aubrey Eugene, Jr. (1966-2000)
Smith, John Lewis, Jr. (1966-1992)
Waddy, Joseph Cornelius (1967-1978)
Gesell, Gerhard Alden (1967-1993)
Green, June Lazenby (1968-2001)
Pratt, John Helm (1968-1995)
Parker, Barrington Daniels, Sr. (1969-1993)
Richey, Charles Robert (1971-1997)
Flannery, Thomas Aquinas (1971-2007)
Oberdorfer, Louis Falk (1977-2013)
Greene, Harold H. (1978-2000)
Penn, John Garrett (1979-2007)
Green, Joyce Hens (1979-2024)
Johnson, Norma Holloway (1980-2003)
Jackson, Thomas Penfield (1982-2004)
Hogan, Thomas Francis (1982-present)
Harris, Stanley S. (1983-2001)
Revercomb, George Hughes (1985-1993)
Sporkin, Stanley (1985-2000)
Lamberth, Royce C. (1987-present)
Boudin, Michael (1990-1992)
Friedman, Paul L. (1994-present)
Kessler, Gladys (1994-2023)
Sullivan, Emmet G. (1994-present)
Urbina, Ricardo M. (1994-2012)
Robertson, James (1994-2010)
Kollar-Kotelly, Colleen (1997-present)
Kennedy, Henry Harold, Jr. (1997-present)
Roberts, Richard W. (1998-present)
Huvelle, Ellen Segal (1999-present)
Walton, Reggie B. (2001-present)
Bates, John D. (2001-present)
Leon, Richard J. (2002-present)
Collyer, Rosemary M. (2002-present)
Howell, Beryl Alaine (2010-present)
Wilkins, Robert Leon (2010-2014)
Boasberg, James Emanuel (2011-present)
Jackson, Amy Berman (2011-present)
Contreras, Rudolph (2012-present)
Jackson, Ketanji Brown (2013-2021)
Cooper, Christopher Reid (2014-present)
Chutkan, Tanya Sue (2014-present)
Moss, Randolph Daniel (2014-present)
Mehta, Amit Priyavadan (2014-present)
Kelly, Timothy James (2017-present)
McFadden, Trevor Neil (2017-present)
Friedrich, Dabney Langhorne (2017-present)
Nichols, Carl John (2019-present)
Pan, Florence Y. (2021-2022)
Cobb, Jia Michelle (2021-present)
Reyes, Ana Cecilia (2023-present)
AliKhan, Loren Linn (2023-present)
Ali, Amir Hatem Mahdy (2024-present)
Sooknanan, Sparkle Leah (2025-present)