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.
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.
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.
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.
Robert Edwin Bacharach is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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.
Gerald Austin McHugh Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
David Jason Hale is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky and former United States attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
Jon David Levy is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine and former associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
Mark Howard Cohen is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Leigh Martin May is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
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 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.
Joseph Francis Leeson Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
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.
