Speculation abounded over potential nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States by President George W. Bush since before his presidency.
Ronnie Lee White is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and a former Missouri Supreme Court judge.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations,Congress confirmed 329 judgeships,173 during the 111th &112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.
Caitlin Joan Halligan is an American lawyer who has served as an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals since April 2023. She served as Solicitor General of New York from 2001 until 2007. President Barack Obama nominated her several times to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,but the U.S. Senate did not vote directly on the nomination,and in March 2013,Obama withdrew the nomination at her request.
Patty Shwartz is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Theodore David Chuang is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and former deputy general counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
Leslie Abrams Gardner is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Prior to being appointed to the bench,she was an assistant United States attorney.
Geoffrey William Crawford is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and former associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Robert John Colville is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
John Milton Younge is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
On March 16,2016,President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia,who had died one month earlier. At the time of his nomination,Garland was the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
James Wesley Hendrix is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and former assistant United States attorney for the same district. He presides over the Northern District's Lubbock,Abilene,and San Angelo Divisions,which account for 47 of the Northern District's 100 counties,and span an area larger than Pennsylvania.
David Charles Nye is an American lawyer and jurist who is the Chief United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho. He was a state court judge for Idaho's Sixth District Court from 2007 to 2017,and before that spent twenty years in private practice in Idaho.
William Frederic Jung is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Britt Cagle Grant is an American attorney and judge who is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Donald Trump,President of the United States from 2017 to 2021,entered office with a significant number of judicial vacancies,including a Supreme Court vacancy due to the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016. During the first eight months of his presidency,he nominated approximately 50 judges,a significantly higher number than any other recent president had made by that point in his presidency. By June 24,2020,200 of his Article III nominees had been confirmed by the United States Senate. According to multiple media outlets,Trump significantly impacted the composition of the Supreme Court and lower courts during his tenure.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Benjamin Joel Beaton is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Jeffery Paul Hopkins is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He previously served as a United States bankruptcy judge of the same court.
