Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by President George W. Bush since before his presidency.
Edith Brown Clement is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,based in New Orleans,Louisiana.
Richard Allen Griffin is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Previously,he was a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals.
David William McKeague is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Franklin Stuart Van Antwerpen was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He assumed senior status on October 23,2006,on his 65th birthday,serving in that status until his death.
Michael Morris Baylson is a senior United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Duane Morris LLP is a law firm headquartered in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1904 as Duane,Morris,Heckscher,&Roberts,and has offices in the United States,London,Singapore,Vietnam,Oman,Myanmar,Shanghai,and Taiwan. In addition to legal services,Duane Morris has independent affiliates in other disciplines.
Helene N. White is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Previously,she was a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals.
During President Bill Clinton's first and second terms of office,he nominated 24 people for 20 federal appellate judgeships but the nominees were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. Three of the nominees who were not processed were nominated after July 1,2000,the traditional start date of the unofficial Thurmond Rule during a presidential election year. Democrats claim that Senate Republicans of the 106th Congress purposely tried to keep open particular judgeships as a political maneuver to allow a future Republican president to fill them. Of the 20 seats in question,four were eventually filled with different Clinton nominees,fourteen were later filled with Republican nominees by President George W. Bush and two continued to stay open during Bush's presidency. Senator Harry Reid,the Democratic leader of the United States Senate during the 110th Congress,and Senator Patrick Leahy,the Democratic leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee under Reid,repeatedly mentioned the controversy over President Clinton's court of appeals nominees during the controversy involving the confirmation of Republican court of appeals nominees during the last two years of Bush's second term. Republicans claimed that Democrats were refusing to confirm certain longstanding Bush nominees in order to allow a future Democratic president in 2009 to fill those judgeships.
Jay Carl Waldman was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Paul Steven Diamond is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and a former federal judicial nominee to be a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was appointed a federal judge by George W. Bush in 2004.
Gustavo Antonio GelpíJr. is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is a former chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
Gerald John Pappert is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and former Pennsylvania Attorney General.
Lucy Haeran Koh is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Koh previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2010 to 2021. She also served as a California state court judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2008 to 2010. She is the first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court in the United States.
Lydia Kay Griggsby is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She is a former Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims and Chief Counsel for Private and Information Policy for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Pamela Ann Harris is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining the federal bench,she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,and visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and executive director of its Supreme Court Institute.
Peter Joseph Phipps is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Jennifer Marie Philpott Wilson is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
John Frank Murphy is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
