Herbert Young Cho Choy was the first Asian American to serve as a United States federal judge and the first person of Korean ancestry to be admitted to the bar in the United States. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Michael Boudin is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He served as Chief Judge of that court from 2001 to 2008. Before his service on the First Circuit,he was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
James Lowell Oakes was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
Walter King Stapleton was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
Walter Roe Mansfield was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
William Joseph Bauer is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
James Emmett Barrett was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
John A. Field Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Frank Harlan Freedman was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Xenophon Hicks was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Anthony Julian was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Shiro Kashiwa was an American lawyer and judge who was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Claims,then as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington,D.C. from 1982 to 1986. He was the first federal judge of Japanese-American descent,the first Asian American judge on the Federal Circuit and was a member of the Jōdo Shinshūsect of Buddhism.
Philip Nichols Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and previously was a judge of the United States Customs Court and the United States Court of Claims.
Charles Adam Pannell Jr. is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Wilbur Frank Pell Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Charles Byron Renfrew was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Robert Arthur Sprecher was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Joseph Louis Tauro was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was the son of the late Massachusetts Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro.
Philip Willis Tone was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and previously a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Susan Laura Carney is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
