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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit: Succession Chart

February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1346¹	February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1346¹	February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1346	February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1346	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Lewis, Robert E. 1929-1940	Cotteral, John H. 1929-1933	Phillips, Orie L. 1929-1956	McDermott, George T. 1929-1937	Pickett, John C. 1949-1966	Hill, Delmas C. 1961-1977	Holloway, William J., Jr. 1968-1992	Seymour, Stephanie K. 1979-2005
Murrah, Alfred P. 1940-1970	Bratton, Sam G. 1933-1961	Lewis, David T. 1956-1977	Williams, Robert L. 1937-1939	Hickey, John J. 1966-1970	Logan, James K. 1977-1994	Henry, Robert H. 1994-2010	Holmes, Jerome A. 2006-
Doyle, William E. 1971-1984	Seth, Oliver 1962-1984	McKay, Monroe G. 1977-1993	Huxman, Walter A. 1939-1957	Barrett, James E. 1971-1987	Briscoe, Mary B. 1995-2021	Bacharach, Robert E. 2013-
Ebel, David M. 1988-2006	Baldock, Bobby R. 1985-2001	Murphy, Michael R. 1995-2012	Breitenstein, Jean S. 1957-1970	Brorby, Wade 1988-2001	Federico, Richard E. N. 2023-
Gorsuch, Neil M. 2006-2017	Hartz, Harris L. 2001-	McHugh, Carolyn B. 2014-	McWilliams, Robert H., Jr. 1970-1984	O'Brien, Terrence L. 2002-2013
Eid, Allison H. 2017-			Porfilio, John C. 1985-1999	Phillips, Gregory A. 2013-
			Tymkovich, Timothy M. 2003-

July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Anderson, Stephen H. 1985-2000	Tacha, Deanell R. 1985-2011	Kelly, Paul J., Jr. 1992-2017	Lucero, Carlos F. 1995-2021
McConnell, Michael W. 2002-2009	Moritz, Nancy L. 2014-	Carson, Joel M. III 2018-	Rossman, Veronica S. 2021-
Matheson, Scott M., Jr. 2010-
1. The act of February 28, 1929, 45 Stat. 1346, transferred these judgeships from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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