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U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania: Judges

Number of judges: 66
Walker, Jonathan Hoge (1818-1824)
Wilkins, William (1824-1831)
Irwin, Thomas (1831-1859)
McCandless, Wilson (1859-1876)
Reed, James Hay (1891-1892)
Buffington, Joseph (1892-1906)
Ewing, Nathaniel (1906-1908)
Young, James Scott (1908-1914)
Orr, Charles Prentiss (1909-1922)
Thomson, W. H. Seward (1914-1932)
Gibson, Robert Murray (1922-1949)
McVicar, Nelson (1928-1960)
Burns, Owen McIntosh (1949-1952)
Miller, John Lester (1954-1978)
Sorg, Herbert Peter (1955-1979)
Dumbauld, Edward (1961-1997)
Rosenberg, Louis (1961-1999)
Weber, Gerald Joseph (1964-1989)
Knox, William W. (1970-1981)
Simmons, Paul Allen (1978-2014)
Diamond, Gustave (1978-2021)
Ziegler, Donald Emil (1978-2003)
Bloch, Alan Neil (1979-2024)
Mencer, Glenn Everell (1982-2007)
Mansmann, Carol Los (1982-1985)
Smith, D[avid] Brooks (1988-2002)
Lee, Donald John (1990-2011)
Lewis, Timothy K. (1991-1992)
Ambrose, Donetta W. (1993-present)
Lancaster, Gary L. (1993-2013)
Cindrich, Robert J. (1994-2004)
McLaughlin, Sean J. (1994-2013)
Conti, Joy Flowers (2002-present)
Cercone, David S. (2002-present)
McVerry, Terrence F. (2002-2021)
Schwab, Arthur J. (2002-present)
Gibson, Kim R. (2003-2025)
Fischer, Nora Barry (2007-present)
Bissoon, Cathy (2011-present)
Hornak, Mark Raymond (2011-present)
Baxter, Susan Paradise (2018-present)
Horan, Marilyn Jean (2018-present)
Phipps, Peter Joseph (2018-2019)
Ranjan, J. Nicholas (2019-present)
Stickman, William Shaw IV (2019-present)
Haines, Stephanie Lou (2019-present)
Colville, Robert John (2019-present)
Hardy, William Scott (2020-present)
Wiegand, Christy Criswell (2020-present)

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