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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Bill Clinton during his presidency. [1] In total Clinton appointed 378 Article III federal judges, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 66 judges to the United States courts of appeals, 305 judges to the United States district courts and 5 judges to the United States Court of ...
However, a problem surfaced relating to Merritt's tenure as a U.S. attorney in the 1960s, and Clinton decided not to proceed with him. Clinton then asked his staff about Janie Shores, who had been the first woman to serve on the Alabama Supreme Court but who was not well known in Washington, D.C. legal circles. In addition, Shores ...
Supreme Court justices Circuit judges District judges Total Supreme Court justices Circuit judges District judges Total Supreme Court justices Circuit judges District judges Total; George Washington: 11 – 28: 39: John Adams: 3: 16: 4: 23: Thomas Jefferson: 3: 7: 9: 19: James Madison: 2: 2: 9: 13: James Monroe: 1 – 21: 22: John Quincy Adams ...
The associate justices were the judges of the eight district courts of Texas. The district judges, whose first session was January 13, 1840, served with the chief justice as associate justices from January 13, 1840 to December 29, 1845, when Texas was admitted into the United States:
Clinton appointed two justices to the Supreme Court. The first vacancy arose in March 1993, when Associate Justice Byron White informed Clinton of his impending retirement. Clinton considered various nominating political leaders like Mario Cuomo and Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt , whom he believed could become leaders on the court in ...
Just getting elected will break the extreme grip the Republican Party of Texas has held on the decisions of the Texas Supreme Court for the last 25+ years. As I serve in office I will be a ...
Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, 116 justices have served on the bench. Of those, 108 have been White men. But in recent decades the court has become more diverse. Over half of its ...
The Supreme Court of the United States was established by the Constitution of the United States.Originally, the Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number of justices at six. . However, as the nation's boundaries grew across the continent and as Supreme Court justices in those days had to ride the circuit, an arduous process requiring long travel on horseback or carriage over harsh terrain that ...