John Mercer Walker Jr. is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He served as chief judge from September 30,2000,to September 30,2006,when he assumed senior status. He was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York,appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan before being elevated to the Second Circuit in 1989.
Patrick Errol Higginbotham is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
James Leo Ryan is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Lee Hyman Rosenthal is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Dale Albert Kimball is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah.
Marvin E. Aspen is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Hezekiah Russel Holland is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.
Richard James Holwell is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Holwell resigned from the bench on February 7,2012.
Virginia Mary Kendall is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President George W. Bush appointed her to the bench on January 3,2006. In addition to serving on the bench,Judge Kendall is also a noted expert on child exploitation and human trafficking,as well as an adjunct law professor and author.
Gerard Edmund Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was confirmed to that seat on September 17,2009,after previously having been appointed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Lynch was the first appeals-court judge nominated by President Barack Obama to win confirmation from the United States Senate.
Julie Ann Robinson is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
William Walter "Billy" Wilkins is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. is a Canadian-born American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Formerly,he was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and a senior trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. He was the chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was recommended by New York Senator Charles Schumer for nomination to the seat on the Second Circuit that was vacated by Judge Sonia Sotomayor when she was elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. Lohier is the first Haitian-American to serve as an Article III federal judge and to be confirmed by the United States Senate as a judge.
Arvo Quoetone Mikkanen is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He has been a judicial law clerk,civil practitioner,judge,tribal prosecutor,law professor,and federal criminal prosecutor during his legal career which began in 1986. Mikkanen is a lecturer and frequent instructor in federal criminal investigations,prosecution issues and Indian affairs law. From 1991 to 1994,he served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
Gershwin Allen Drain is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Robert Edwin Bacharach is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Charles Joseph Williams is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Ada Elene Brown is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas. She is the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. She is also the first African American woman to sit as a federal judge in the 140- year-history of the Northern District of Texas. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation,Brown is also one of six actively serving Native American federal judges of 673 federal district court judges. When appointed to the federal bench,Brown became the only woman judge in the 233-year history of the Choctaw Nation to serve as a federal judge.
Zahid Nisar Quraishi is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court. He is the first Muslim Article III federal judge confirmed by the United States Senate.
