The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for articulating the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines for the federal courts. The Commission promulgates the Federal Sentencing Guidelines,which replaced the prior system of indeterminate sentencing that allowed trial judges to give sentences ranging from probation to the maximum statutory punishment for the offense. It is headquartered in Washington,D.C.
Fred Irving Parker was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
Julie Elizabeth Carnes is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Danny Clyde Reeves is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Patti Barbara Saris is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She is also the former chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Nancy Dell Freudenthal is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. She is the first female judge to serve in the District of Wyoming. Freudenthal was also the First Lady of Wyoming from January 6,2003,to January 3,2011,as the wife of Governor Dave Freudenthal.
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.
Beth Robinson is an American lawyer and judge from Vermont. She is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any federal court of appeals. Robinson served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021.
William Joseph Kayatta Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit since 2013.
William Horsley Orrick III is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He had a long career as a lawyer in private practice in San Francisco,and served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Obama administration.
Luis Felipe Restrepo,known commonly as L. Felipe Restrepo,is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Jeffrey Alker Meyer is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and former professor of law at Quinnipiac University School of Law.
Richard Franklin Boulware II is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada and former assistant Federal Public Defender.
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.
Geoffrey William Crawford is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and former associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
Roseann Ambrosia Ketchmark is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri and a former assistant United States attorney.
Walter David Counts III is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Claria Denise Horn Boom is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. She is a member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Mary Kay Lanthier is an American lawyer who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont.
