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As the first president, George Washington appointed the entire federal judiciary. His record of eleven Supreme Court appointments still stands. Ronald Reagan appointed 383 federal judges, more than any other president.. Following is a list indicating the number of Article III federal judicial appointments made by each president of the United States.The number of judicial offices has risen ...

President William Henry Harrison (Whig), who died a month into his presidency in 1841, is the only president to make no federal judicial appointments. President Jimmy Carter (D) made the most judicial appointments relative to his tenure in the White House. He averaged 66 judicial appointments per ...

This page lists the number of Article III Federal judges serving in the federal judiciary as of May 6, 2025, organized by the presidents who appointed them and the district or circuit courts they sit on.. Article III federal judges are appointed for life by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in accordance with Article III of the United States Constitution.

The appointment of federal judges for United States federal courts is done via nomination by the President of the United States and confirmation by the United States Senate.The tables below provide the composition of all Article III courts which include the Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals at the end of each four year presidential term, as well as the current compositions of the ...

The names of potential nominees are often recommended by senators or sometimes by members of the House who are of the President's political party. The Senate Judiciary Committee typically conducts confirmation hearings for each nominee. Article III of the Constitution states that these judicial officers are appointed for a life term.

The Judicial Appointments Tracker covers nominees the president has officially named and sent to the U.S. Senate, as indicated by either the Senate website here or on Congress.gov. Hearings. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on the nominees covered by the Judicial Appointments Tracker. The percentage above is of the president’s ...

During his first term, Trump made 245 judicial appointments. Of those, 234 were Article III judges. ... As we mentioned in our Feb. 12 edition of The Daily Brew, the dates when presidents have made their first judicial appointments have varied, ranging from Feb. 1 to July 1 of a president’s first year in office since 1981.

Following a flurry of judicial confirmations in the final weeks of the 118th Congress, President Joe Biden will end his tenure in the White House having appointed 228 judges to the federal courts. That figure includes record numbers of women and racial or ethnic minorities. Biden’s total narrowly eclipses the 226 federal judges Donald Trump appointed during his first term as president.

*Appointments made by the current President are as of December 31, 2023. Judgeship Appointments by President (1)The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (USCAFC) and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (USCFC) were established in 1982. The USCFC was named the U.S. Court of Claims until 1992.

A recess appointment is when the president appoints a federal official while the Senate is in recess. The data contained in these charts is compiled by Ballotpedia staff from publicly available information provided by the Federal Judicial Center. The comparison by days shown between the presidents is not reflective of the larger states of the ...

The remaining 2% were appointed by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. As should be obvious, a President’s judicial appointments continue to have a significant impact on this country long after the President has left office. The appointment power is one of the many reasons a Presidential election has real consequences.

Whereas the Executive and Legislative branches are elected by the people, members of the Judicial Branch are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

Pages in category "Lists of United States judicial appointments by president" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Judicial appointment history for United States federal courts;

Comparison of Article III judicial appointments over time by president and court type See also: Federal judicial appointments by president The table and chart below show the number of Article III judges confirmed by the U.S. Senate under each of the last seven presidents as of December 31 of their fourth year in office.The confirmations are broken up by court type.

President Donald Trump announced his nominees for several federal judgeships in a press release.. Trump named his first judicial nominee, Whitney Hermandorfer, last week. Hermandorfer would serve ...

Following is a list indicating the number of Article III federal judicial appointments made by each President of the United States. The number of judicial offices has risen significantly from the time when Washington's 38 appointments were sufficient to maintain the entire federal judiciary for eight years. As of January, 2009, there are 866 ...

Judicial Appointments. Updated Dec. 22, 2021. This page tracks the appointments of judges to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the 15 federal district courts in the circuit. New judges are appointed when an existing judgeship becomes vacant or a new judgeship is authorized by Congress. The person occupying the ...

The nomination, which the president unveiled in a near-midnight post on his social media platform Truth Social, is the first judicial appointment of his second term — and comes nearly five months after he took office. Hermandorfer is the director of the strategic litigation unit in the office of the Tennessee attorney general.

President Donald Trump – whose second-term agenda has been bogged down by judicial roadblocks – announced several judicial picks in Truth Social posts on Tuesday, and complained in a post on ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency. [1] In total Roosevelt appointed 194 Article III federal judges, more than twice as many as the previous record of 82 appointed by Calvin Coolidge.Among them were: nine justices to the Supreme Court of the United States ...