This is a list of Article III United States federal judges by longevity of service. The judges on the lists below were presidential appointees who have been confirmed by the Senate, and who served on the federal bench for over 40 years. It includes neither Article I judges (e.g., U.S. Tax Court, bankruptcy courts, administrative tribunals) or Article IV judges (e.g., territorial courts).
Total combined service
Rank | Judge | Court | Appointed by | Began active service | Ended active service | Ended senior status | Total active service | Total service |
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1 | Joseph William Woodrough | D. Neb. 8th Cir. |
Wilson F.D.R. |
April 3, 1916 April 12, 1933 |
April 12, 1933 January 3, 1961 |
October 2, 1977 |
44 years, 275 days | 61 years, 182 days |
2 | Henry Potter | 5th Cir. D.N.C. |
Jefferson | May 9, 1801[1] April 7, 1802 |
April 7, 1802 December 20, 1857 |
n/a | 56 years, 225 days | 56 years, 225 days |
3 | William Joseph Nealon Jr. | M.D. Pa. | Kennedy | December 13, 1962[2] | January 1, 1989 | August 30, 2018 | 26 years, 19 days | 55 years, 260 days |
4 | Joseph Buffington | W.D. Pa. 3rd Cir. 3rd Cir. |
B. Harrison T. Roosevelt T. Roosevelt |
February 23, 1892 September 25, 1906 September 25, 1906[3] |
September 26, 1906 December 31, 1911 June 1, 1938 |
October 21, 1947 |
46 years, 98 days | 55 years, 240 days |
5 | Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. | S.D. Tex. 5th Cir. |
Wilson Hoover |
April 6, 1918 January 26, 1931 |
January 26, 1931 November 4, 1964 |
January 18, 1973 |
46 years, 212 days | 54 years, 287 days |
6 | Seybourn Harris Lynne | N.D. Ala. | Truman | January 3, 1946 | January 9, 1973 | September 10, 2000 | 27 years, 6 days | 54 years, 251 days |
7 | Edward Joseph McManus | N.D. Iowa | Kennedy | July 16, 1962 | February 9, 1985 | March 20, 2017 | 22 years, 208 days | 54 years, 247 days |
8 | William Cranch | D.C. Cir. | J. Adams[4] | March 3, 1801 | September 1, 1855 | n/a | 54 years, 182 days | 54 years, 182 days |
9 | Jack B. Weinstein | E.D.N.Y. | L.B.J. | April 25, 1967 | March 1, 1993 | June 15, 2021 | 25 years, 310 days | 54 years, 51 days |
10 | George C. Young | S.D. Fla. N.D. Fla. M.D. Fla. |
Kennedy | September 18, 1961 September 18, 1961 October 29, 1962 |
September 17, 1966 September 17, 1966 October 19, 1981 |
April 24, 2015 |
20 years, 31 days | 53 years, 218 days |
11 | Wilfred Feinberg | S.D.N.Y. 2nd Cir. |
Kennedy L.B.J. |
October 5, 1961[5] March 7, 1966 |
March 7, 1966 January 31, 1991 |
July 31, 2014 |
29 years, 118 days | 52 years, 299 days |
12 | Manuel Real | C.D. Cal. | L.B.J. | November 3, 1966 | November 4, 2018 | June 26, 2019 | 52 years, 1 day | 52 years, 235 days |
13 | Albert Branson Maris | E.D. Pa. 3rd Cir. |
F.D.R. | June 22, 1936 June 24, 1938 |
June 16, 1938 December 31, 1958 |
February 7, 1989 |
22 years, 192 days | 52 years, 230 days |
14 | Alfred Goodwin | D. Or. 9th Cir. |
Nixon | December 11, 1969 November 30, 1971 |
December 17, 1971 January 31, 1991 |
Incumbent |
21 years, 51 days | 54 years, 255 days |
15 | Learned Hand | S.D.N.Y. 2d Cir. |
Taft Coolidge |
April 26, 1909 December 20, 1924 |
December 29, 1924 June 1, 1951 |
August 18, 1961 |
42 years, 36 days | 52 years, 114 days |
16 | Orie Leon Phillips | D.N.M. 10th Cir. |
Harding Hoover |
March 3, 1923 April 29, 1929 |
April 29, 1929 January 1, 1956 |
November 14, 1974 |
32 years, 304 days | 51 years, 256 days |
17 | John P. Fullam | E.D. Pa. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1966 | April 1, 1990 | March 8, 2018 | 23 years, 233 days | 51 years, 209 days |
18 | Walter King Stapleton | D. Del. 3rd Cir. |
Nixon Reagan |
October 14, 1970 April 4, 1985 |
May 8, 1985 June 2, 1999 |
Incumbent |
28 years, 231 days | 53 years, 313 days |
19 | Gerald Bard Tjoflat | M.D. Fla. 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Nixon Ford n/a[6] |
October 16, 1970 November 21, 1975 October 1, 1981 |
December 12, 1975 October 1, 1981 November 19, 2019 |
Incumbent |
49 years, 34 days | 53 years, 311 days |
John Clifford Wallace | S.D. Cal. 9th Cir. |
Nixon | October 16, 1970 June 28, 1972 |
July 14, 1972 April 8, 1996 |
Incumbent |
25 years, 175 days | 53 years, 311 days | |
21 | Damon Keith | E.D. Mich. 6th Cir. |
L.B.J. Carter |
October 12, 1967 October 21, 1977 |
November 22, 1977 May 1, 1995 |
April 28, 2019 |
27 years, 201 days | 51 years, 198 days |
22 | James Lawrence King | S.D. Fla. | Nixon | October 19, 1970 | December 20, 1992 | Incumbent | 22 years, 62 days | 53 years, 308 days |
23 | Alexander Harvey II | D. Md. | L.B.J. | September 22, 1966 | March 8, 1991 | December 4, 2017 | 24 years, 167 days | 51 years, 73 days |
24 | William Augustus Bootle | M.D. Ga. | Eisenhower | May 20, 1954 | March 11, 1972 | January 25, 2005 | 17 years, 296 days | 50 years, 250 days |
25 | James R. Browning | 9th Cir. | Kennedy | September 18, 1961 | September 1, 2000 | May 6, 2012 | 38 years, 349 days | 50 years, 231 days |
26 | William J. Bauer | N.D. Ill. 7th Cir. |
Nixon Ford |
November 10, 1971 December 20, 1974 |
January 3, 1975 October 31, 1994 |
Incumbent |
22 years, 355 days | 52 years, 286 days |
27 | Levin H. Campbell | D. Mass. 1st Cir. |
Nixon | November 30, 1971 June 30, 1972 |
August 31, 1972 January 3, 1992 |
Incumbent |
20 years, 34 days | 52 years, 266 days |
28 | Jon O. Newman | D. Conn. 2nd Cir. |
Nixon Carter |
December 15, 1971 June 21, 1979 |
June 25, 1979 July 1, 1997 |
Incumbent |
25 years, 198 days | 52 years, 251 days |
29 | Myron Donovan Crocker | S.D. Cal. E.D. Cal. |
Eisenhower n/a[7] |
September 21, 1959 September 18, 1966 |
September 18, 1966 January 1, 1981 |
February 2, 2010 |
21 years, 102 days | 50 years, 134 days |
30 | Harry W. Wellford | W.D. Tenn. 6th Cir. |
Nixon Reagan |
December 12, 1970 August 20, 1982 |
September 10, 1982 January 15, 1991 |
April 17, 2021 |
20 years, 34 days | 50 years, 126 days |
31 | Peter T. Fay | S.D. Fla. 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Nixon Ford n/a[6] |
October 16, 1970 September 21, 1976 October 1, 1981 |
October 8, 1976 October 1, 1981 January 19, 1994 |
January 31, 2021 |
23 years, 95 days | 50 years, 107 days |
32 | Charles Miller Metzner | S.D.N.Y. | Eisenhower | September 10, 1959 | September 30, 1977 | November 30, 2009 | 18 years, 20 days | 50 years, 81 days |
33 | Walter Thomas McGovern | W.D. Wash. | Nixon | April 23, 1971 | September 30, 1987 | July 8, 2021 | 16 years, 160 days | 50 years, 76 days |
34 | Carl Olaf Bue Jr. | S.D. Tex. | Nixon | October 15, 1970 | September 2, 1987 | December 24, 2020 | 16 years, 350 days | 50 years, 70 days |
35 | William Terrell Hodges | M.D. Fla. | Nixon | December 15, 1971 | May 2, 1999 | January 4, 2022 | 27 years, 138 days | 50 years, 20 days |
36 | Harry Pregerson | C.D. Cal. 9th Cir. |
L.B.J. Carter |
December 7, 1967 November 2, 1979 |
November 6, 1979 December 11, 2015 |
November 25, 2017 |
48 years, 4 days | 49 years, 353 days |
37 | Wesley E. Brown | D. Kan. | Kennedy | April 4, 1962 | September 1, 1979 | January 23, 2012 | 17 years, 150 days | 49 years, 294 days |
38 | John Thomas Curtin | W.D.N.Y | L.B.J. | December 14, 1967 | July 1, 1989 | April 14, 2017 | 21 years, 199 days | 49 years, 121 days |
39 | Daniel Holcombe Thomas | S.D. Ala. | Truman | March 9, 1951 | August 25, 1971 | April 13, 2000 | 20 years, 169 days | 49 years, 35 days |
40 | David Norton Edelstein | S.D.N.Y. | Truman | November 1, 1951[8] | November 1, 1994 | August 19, 2000 | 43 years, 0 days | 48 years, 292 days |
41 | John Paul Stevens | 7th Cir. SCOTUS |
Nixon Ford |
October 14, 1970 December 17, 1975 |
December 18, 1975 June 30, 2010 |
July 16, 2019 |
39 years, 259 days | 48 years, 275 days |
42 | Donald West VanArtsdalen | E.D. Pa. | Nixon | October 15, 1970 | October 21, 1985 | May 21, 2019 | 15 years, 6 days | 48 years, 218 days |
43 | Willard Hall | D. Del. | Monroe | May 6, 1823[9] | December 6, 1871 | n/a | 48 years, 214 days | 48 years, 214 days |
44 | Thomas Walter Swan | 2nd Cir. | Coolidge | December 22, 1926 | July 1, 1953 | July 13, 1975 | 26 years, 191 days | 48 years, 203 days |
45 | Myron H. Bright | 8th Cir. | L.B.J. | June 7, 1968 | June 1, 1985 | December 12, 2016 | 16 years, 359 days | 48 years, 188 days |
46 | John William Ditter Jr. | E.D. Pa. | Nixon | October 15, 1970 | October 19, 1986 | April 7, 2019 | 16 years, 4 days | 48 years, 174 days |
47 | Bailey Aldrich | D. Mass. 1st Cir. |
Eisenhower | April 27, 1954 September 10, 1959 |
September 14, 1959 August 31, 1972 |
September 25, 2002 |
18 years, 126 days | 48 years, 151 days |
48 | Edwin F. Hunter | W.D. La. | Eisenhower | October 3, 1953[10] | February 19, 1976 | February 22, 2002 | 22 years, 139 days | 48 years, 142 days |
49 | Frederick Jacob Reagan Heebe | E.D. La. | L.B.J. | March 26, 1966 | August 26, 1992 | August 10, 2014 | 26 years, 153 days | 48 years, 137 days |
50 | John C. Knox | S.D.N.Y. | Wilson | April 12, 1918 | April 30, 1955 | August 23, 1966 | 37 years, 18 days | 48 years, 133 days |
51 | James Sewall Morsell | D.C. Cir. | Madison | January 11, 1815 | March 3, 1863 | n/a | 48 years, 51 days | 48 years, 51 days |
52 | Albert Vickers Bryan Jr. | E.D. Va. | Nixon | July 29, 1971 | December 1, 1991 | August 27, 2019 | 20 years, 125 days | 48 years, 29 days |
53 | William Joseph Campbell | N.D. Ill. | F.D.R. | October 10, 1940 | March 19, 1970 | October 19, 1988 | 29 years, 160 days | 48 years, 9 days |
54 | Samuel Conti | N.D. Cal. | Nixon | October 16, 1970 | November 1, 1987 | August 29, 2018 | 17 years, 16 days | 47 years, 317 days |
55 | Albert L. Reeves | W.D. Mo. | Harding | June 24, 1923 | February 2, 1954 | March 24, 1971 | 30 years, 223 days | 47 years, 273 days |
56 | William Benner Enright | S.D. Cal. | Nixon | June 30, 1972 | July 12, 1990 | March 7, 2020 | 18 years, 12 days | 47 years, 251 days |
57 | Joel Flaum | N.D. Ill. 7th Cir. |
Ford Reagan |
December 20, 1974 May 5, 1983 |
June 1, 1983 November 30, 2020 |
Incumbent |
45 years, 346 days | 49 years, 246 days |
Donald Alsop | D. Minn. | Ford | December 20, 1974 | August 28, 1992 | Incumbent | 17 years, 252 days | 49 years, 246 days | |
59 | Garnett Thomas Eisele | E.D. Ark. | Nixon | August 6, 1970 | August 1, 1991 | November 26, 2017 | 20 years, 360 days | 47 years, 112 days |
60 | Marion Speed Boyd | W.D. Tenn. | F.D.R. | September 27, 1940 | August 1, 1966 | January 9, 1988 | 25 years, 308 days | 47 years, 104 days |
61 | James Hughes Hancock | N.D. Ala. | Nixon | April 17, 1973 | May 1, 1996 | July 24, 2020 | 23 years, 14 days | 47 years, 98 days |
62 | Warren Keith Urbom | D. Neb. | Nixon | April 24, 1970 | December 31, 1990 | July 28, 2017 | 20 years, 251 days | 47 years, 95 days |
63 | James von der Heydt | D. Alaska | L.B.J. | November 3, 1966 | July 15, 1984 | December 1, 2013 | 17 years, 255 days | 47 years, 28 days |
64 | William Henry Stafford Jr. | N.D. Fla. | Ford | May 14, 1975 | May 31, 1996 | Incumbent | 21 years, 17 days | 49 years, 100 days |
65 | Anthony Kennedy | 9th Cir. SCOTUS |
Ford Reagan |
May 30, 1975 February 18, 1988 |
February 18, 1988 July 31, 2018 |
Incumbent |
43 years, 62 days | 49 years, 84 days |
66 | Robert F. Chapman | D.S.C. 4th Cir. |
Nixon Reagan |
May 27, 1971 September 19, 1981 |
October 2, 1981 May 31, 1991 |
April 18, 2018 |
20 years, 4 days | 46 years, 326 days |
67 | Leonard I. Garth | D.N.J. 3rd Cir. |
Nixon | December 18, 1969 August 6, 1973 |
August 29, 1973 June 30, 1986 |
September 22, 2016 |
16 years, 194 days | 46 years, 279 days |
68 | William Clark O'Kelley | N.D. Ga. | Nixon | October 16, 1970 | October 1, 1996 | July 5, 2017 | 25 years, 351 days | 46 years, 262 days |
69 | George M. Bourquin | D. Mont. | Taft | March 8, 1912 | March 9, 1934 | November 15, 1958 | 22 years, 1 day | 46 years, 252 days |
70 | Gunnar Nordbye | D. Minn. | Hoover | March 18, 1931[11] | March 6, 1967 | November 5, 1977 | 35 years, 353 days | 46 years, 232 days |
71 | Roy Winfield Harper[12] | W.D. Mo. E.D. Mo. |
Truman | August 7, 1947 | January 5, 1971 | February 13, 1994 | 23 years, 151 days | 46 years, 190 days |
72 | Eugene Edward Siler Jr. | E.D. Ky. W.D. Ky. 6th Cir. |
Ford Ford G.H.W. Bush |
November 13, 1975 November 13, 1975 September 16, 1991 |
September 20, 1991 September 20, 1991 December 31, 2001 |
Incumbent |
26 years, 48 days | 48 years, 283 days |
73 | Charles William Kraft Jr. | E.D. Pa. | Eisenhower | August 12, 1955[13] | November 11, 1970 | January 18, 2002 | 15 years, 91 days | 46 years, 159 days |
74 | Ruggero J. Aldisert | 3rd Cir. | L.B.J. | July 29, 1968 | December 31, 1986 | December 28, 2014 | 18 years, 155 days | 46 years, 152 days |
75 | Patrick Higginbotham | N.D. Tx. 5th Cir. |
Ford Reagan |
December 12, 1975 July 30, 1982 |
July 30, 1982 August 28, 2006 |
Incumbent |
30 years, 259 days | 48 years, 254 days |
76 | Phillip Forman | D.N.J. 3rd Cir. |
Hoover Eisenhower |
June 25, 1932 September 10, 1959 |
September 20, 1959 March 31, 1961 |
August 17, 1978 |
28 years, 279 days | 46 years, 53 days |
77 | Joseph L. Tauro | D. Mass. | Nixon | October 17, 1972 | September 26, 2013 | November 30, 2018 | 40 years, 344 days | 46 years, 44 days |
78 | Charles S. Haight Jr. | S.D.N.Y. | Ford | March 29, 1976 | September 23, 1995 | Incumbent | 19 years, 178 days | 48 years, 146 days |
79 | Ralph B. Guy Jr. | E.D. Mich. 6th Cir. |
Ford Reagan |
May 12, 1976 October 17, 1985 |
October 17, 1985 September 1, 1994 |
Incumbent |
18 years, 112 days | 48 years, 102 days |
80 | Stephen Sanders Chandler Jr. | W.D. Okla. | F.D.R. | May 13, 1943 | October 20, 1975 | April 27, 1989 | 32 years, 160 days | 45 years, 349 days |
81 | Juan R. Torruella | D.P.R. 1st Cir. |
Ford Reagan |
December 20, 1974 October 4, 1984 |
October 30, 1984 October 26, 2020 |
n/a | 45 years, 311 days | 45 years, 311 days |
82 | Caleb Merrill Wright | D. Del. | Eisenhower | July 27, 1955 | October 8, 1973 | May 12, 2001 | 18 years, 73 days | 45 years, 289 days |
83 | John Thomas Copenhaver Jr. | S.D.W.Va. | Ford | September 3, 1976 | November 1, 2018 | Incumbent | 42 years, 59 days | 47 years, 354 days |
84 | W. Eugene Davis | W.D. La. 5th Cir. |
Ford Reagan |
September 21, 1976 November 16, 1983 |
December 9, 1983 December 31, 2016 |
Incumbent |
40 years, 101 days | 47 years, 336 days |
85 | Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr. | W.D. Pa. | Ford | May 21, 1976 | November 28, 1994 | January 1, 2022 | 18 years, 191 days | 45 years, 225 days |
86 | William Judson Holloway Jr. | 10th Cir. | L.B.J. | September 16, 1968 | May 31, 1992 | April 25, 2014 | 23 years, 258 days | 45 years, 221 days |
87 | R. James Harvey | E.D. Mich. | Nixon | December 19, 1973 | March 31, 1984 | July 20, 2019 | 10 years, 103 days | 45 years, 213 days |
88 | Dan Monroe Russell Jr. | S.D. Miss. | L.B.J. | October 2, 1965 | October 25, 1983 | April 16, 2011 | 18 years, 23 days | 45 years, 196 days |
89 | James Paul Churchill | E.D. Mich. | Ford | December 20, 1974 | December 31, 1989 | June 29, 2020 | 15 years, 11 days | 45 years, 192 days |
90 | Thomas Virgil Pittman | M.D. Ala. S.D. Ala. |
L.B.J. | June 29, 1966 June 29, 1966 |
June 2, 1970 July 15, 1981 |
January 6, 2012 |
15 years, 16 days | 45 years, 191 days |
91 | Elijah Allen Cox | N.D. Miss. | Coolidge | March 2, 1929 | March 22, 1957 | August 28, 1974 | 28 years, 20 days | 45 years, 179 days |
92 | Thomas P. Griesa | S.D.N.Y. | Nixon | June 30, 1972 | March 13, 2000 | December 24, 2017 | 27 years, 257 days | 45 years, 177 days |
93 | William Daniel Murray | D. Mont. | Truman | May 9, 1949 | December 31, 1965 | October 3, 1994 | 16 years, 236 days | 45 years, 147 days |
94 | Robert Earl Maxwell | N.D. W.Va. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1965 | July 19, 1995 | November 20, 2010 | 29 years, 342 days | 45 years, 101 days |
95 | Richard Paul Matsch | D. Col. | Nixon | March 8, 1974 | July 1, 2003 | May 26, 2019 | 29 years, 115 days | 45 years, 79 days |
96 | Joseph Putnam Willson | W.D. Pa. | Eisenhower | July 14, 1953 | October 18, 1968 | August 3, 1998 | 15 years, 96 days | 45 years, 20 days |
97 | William Elwood Steckler | S.D. Ind. | Truman | April 7, 1950 | December 31, 1986 | March 8, 1995 | 36 years, 268 days | 44 years, 335 days |
98 | Solomon Blatt Jr. | D.S.C. | Nixon | May 28, 1971 | May 7, 1990 | April 20, 2016 | 18 years, 344 days | 44 years, 328 days |
99 | Edward Louis Filippine | E.D. Mo. | Carter | July 22, 1977 | June 11, 1995 | Incumbent | 17 years, 324 days | 47 years, 31 days |
100 | Harold Lloyd Murphy | N.D. Ga. | Carter | July 29, 1977 | March 31, 2017 | Incumbent | 39 years, 245 days | 47 years, 24 days |
101 | Charles Wycliffe Joiner | E.D. Mich. | Nixon | June 9, 1972 | August 15, 1984 | March 10, 2017 | 12 years, 67 days | 44 years, 274 days |
102 | Gordon Thompson Jr. | S.D. Cal. | Nixon | October 16, 1970 | December 28, 1994 | July 5, 2015 | 24 years, 73 days | 44 years, 262 days |
103 | Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. | D. Mass. | F.D.R. | December 19, 1941 | September 1, 1971 | September 3, 1986 | 29 years, 256 days | 44 years, 258 days |
104 | Jennings Bailey | D.D.C. | Wilson | May 22, 1918 | November 1, 1950 | January 9, 1963 | 32 years, 163 days | 44 years, 232 days |
105 | Pierre N. Leval | S.D.N.Y. 2nd Cir. |
Carter Clinton |
October 31, 1977 October 20, 1993 |
November 8, 1993 August 16, 2002 |
Incumbent |
24 years, 289 days | 46 years, 296 days |
106 | Frederick Alvin Daugherty | E.D. Okla. N.D. Okla. W.D. Okla. |
Kennedy | October 5, 1961[14] | January 12, 1982 | April 7, 2006 | 20 years, 99 days | 44 years, 184 days |
107 | Matthew Francis McGuire | D.D.C. | F.D.R. | August 1, 1941 | October 7, 1966 | January 24, 1986 | 25 years, 67 days | 44 years, 176 days |
108 | Samuel Hugh Dillin | S.D. Ind. | Kennedy | September 22, 1961 | March 31, 1993 | March 13, 2006 | 31 years, 190 days | 44 years, 172 days |
109 | Luther Merritt Swygert | N.D. Ind. 7th Cir. |
F.D.R. Kennedy |
October 16, 1943 September 29, 1961 |
October 10, 1961 July 1, 1981 |
March 16, 1988 |
37 years, 258 days | 44 years, 152 days |
110 | John L. Kane Jr. | D. Col. | Carter | December 16, 1977 | April 8, 1988 | Incumbent | 10 years, 114 days | 46 years, 250 days |
111 | Thomas Francis Murphy | S.D.N.Y. | Truman | July 2, 1951 | December 3, 1970 | October 26, 1995 | 19 years, 154 days | 44 years, 116 days |
112 | Ashur Ware | D. Me. | Monroe | February 15, 1822 | May 31, 1866 | n/a | 44 years, 105 days | 44 years, 105 days |
113 | Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. | 6th Cir. | Carter | October 31, 1977 | January 17, 2001 | January 17, 2022 | 23 years, 78 days | 44 years, 78 days |
114 | Frank M. Coffin | 1st Cir. | L.B.J. | October 2, 1965 | February 1, 1989 | December 7, 2009 | 23 years, 122 days | 44 years, 66 days |
115 | John Clyde Bowen | W.D. Wash. | F.D.R. | March 20, 1934 | June 5, 1961 | April 27, 1978 | 27 years, 77 days | 44 years, 38 days |
116 | Harold P. Burke | W.D.N.Y. | F.D.R. | June 18, 1937 | June 15, 1981 | July 17, 1981 | 43 years, 362 days | 44 years, 29 days |
117 | John F. Grady | N.D. Ill. | Ford | November 21, 1975 | May 23, 1994 | December 2, 2019 | 18 years, 183 days | 44 years, 11 days |
118 | Kevin Duffy | S.D.N.Y. | Nixon | October 17, 1972 | January 10, 1998 | September 30, 2016 | 25 years, 85 days | 43 years, 349 days |
119 | Joseph F. Weis Jr. | W.D. Pa. 3rd Cir. |
Nixon | April 24, 1970 March 15, 1973 |
March 27, 1973 April 1, 1988 |
March 17, 2014 |
17 years, 343 days | 43 years, 327 days |
120 | J. Edward Lumbard | 2d Cir. | Eisenhower | July 12, 1955 | July 20, 1971 | June 3, 1999 | 16 years, 8 days | 43 years, 326 days |
121 | Jose Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. | S.D. Fla. | Carter | July 28, 1978 | November 30, 1996 | Incumbent | 18 years, 125 days | 46 years, 25 days |
122 | Frank Minis Johnson | M.D. Ala. 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Eisenhower Carter n/a[6] |
October 22, 1955[15] June 21, 1979 October 1, 1981 |
July 12, 1979 October 1, 1981 October 30, 1991 |
July 23, 1999 |
36 years, 8 days | 43 years, 274 days |
123 | William Huntington Kirkpatrick | E.D. Pa. | Coolidge | March 3, 1927 | May 1, 1958 | November 28, 1970 | 31 years, 59 days | 43 years, 270 days |
124 | Joseph H. Young | D. Md. | Nixon | July 29, 1971 | August 1, 1987 | March 14, 2015 | 16 years, 3 days | 43 years, 228 days |
125 | Bruce Sterling Jenkins | D. Utah | Carter | September 22, 1978 | September 30, 1994 | Incumbent | 16 years, 8 days | 45 years, 335 days |
126 | John Jay Jackson Jr. | W.D. Va. D. W.Va. N.D. W.Va. |
Lincoln n/a[16] n/a[17] |
August 3, 1861 June 11, 1864 July 1, 1901 |
June 10, 1864 July 1, 1901 March 15, 1905 |
n/a | 43 years, 224 days | 43 years, 224 days |
127 | Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy | E.D. Mich. 6th Cir. |
Nixon Carter |
October 7, 1970 September 26, 1979 |
October 3, 1979 March 1, 1999 |
May 12, 2014 |
28 years, 145 days | 43 years, 217 days |
128 | John D. Butzner Jr. | E.D. Va. 4th Cir. |
Kennedy L.B.J. |
June 20, 1962 July 31, 1967 |
August 1, 1967 November 1, 1982 |
January 20, 2006 |
20 years, 134 days | 43 years, 214 days |
129 | Jacob Mishler | E.D.N.Y. | Eisenhower | July 6, 1960 | April 30, 1980 | January 26, 2004 | 19 years, 299 days | 43 years, 204 days |
Junius Foy Guin Jr. | N.D. Ala. | Nixon | April 18, 1973 | February 3, 1989 | November 8, 2016 | 15 years, 291 days | 43 years, 204 days | |
131 | Johnson Jay Hayes | M.D.N.C. | Coolidge | April 6, 1927[18] | June 18, 1957 | October 22, 1970 | 30 years, 73 days | 43 years, 199 days |
132 | Jesse E. Eschbach | N.D. Ind. 7th Cir. |
Kennedy Reagan |
April 13, 1962 December 1, 1981 |
December 11, 1981 November 4, 1985 |
October 25, 2005 |
23 years, 205 days | 43 years, 195 days |
133 | Gustave Diamond | W.D. Pa. | Carter | May 2, 1978 | January 31, 1994 | October 30, 2021 | 15 years, 274 days | 43 years, 181 days |
134 | Pierce Lively | 6th Cir. | Nixon | October 5, 1972 | January 1, 1989 | March 12, 2016 | 16 years, 88 days | 43 years, 159 days |
135 | Reynaldo Guerra Garza | S.D. Tex. 5th Cir. |
Kennedy Carter |
April 14, 1961 July 13, 1979 |
August 1, 1979 July 7, 1982 |
September 14, 2004 |
21 years, 84 days | 43 years, 153 days |
John Cooper Godbold | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
L.B.J. n/a[6] |
July 22, 1966 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 October 23, 1987 |
December 22, 2009 |
21 years, 93 days | 43 years, 153 days | |
137 | David L. Bazelon | D.C. Cir. | Truman | October 21, 1949[19] | June 30, 1979 | February 19, 1993 | 29 years, 252 days | 43 years, 121 days |
138 | Arnold Wilson Cowen | C.ofC. Fed. Cir. |
L.B.J. n/a[20] |
July 8, 1964 n/a |
March 1, 1977 October 1, 1982 |
September 30, 1982 October 28, 2007 |
18 years, 85 days | 43 years, 112 days |
139 | Harold Baker | E.D. Ill. C.D. Ill. |
Carter n/a[21] |
September 23, 1978 March 31, 1979 |
March 31, 1979 October 4, 1994 |
January 2, 2022 |
16 years, 11 days | 43 years, 101 days |
140 | Edwin R. Holmes | N.D. Miss. S.D. Miss. 5th Cir. |
Wilson Wilson F.D.R. |
October 24, 1918 October 24, 1918 March 20, 1936 |
March 1, 1929 April 6, 1936 November 30, 1954 |
December 10, 1961 |
36 years, 37 days | 43 years, 47 days |
141 | Rya W. Zobel | D. Mass. | Carter | March 23, 1979 | April 1, 2014 | Incumbent | 35 years, 9 days | 45 years, 152 days |
142 | Donald Roe Ross | 8th Cir. | Nixon | December 12, 1970 | June 13, 1987 | December 18, 2013 | 16 years, 183 days | 43 years, 6 days |
143 | Thomas Collier Platt Jr. | E.D.N.Y. | Nixon | March 8, 1974 | February 1, 2001 | March 4, 2017 | 26 years, 330 days | 42 years, 361 days |
144 | Joyce Hens Green | D.D.C. | Carter | May 11, 1979 | July 1, 1995 | Incumbent | 16 years, 51 days | 45 years, 103 days |
145 | Charles Andrew Muecke | D. Ariz. | L.B.J. | October 1, 1964 | November 30, 1984 | September 21, 2007 | 20 years, 60 days | 42 years, 355 days |
146 | Giles Rich | C.C.P.A. Fed. Cir. |
Eisenhower n/a[20] |
July 19, 1956 October 1, 1982 |
September 30, 1982 June 15, 1999 |
n/a | 42 years, 331 days | 42 years, 331 days |
147 | Amalya Lyle Kearse | 2nd Cir. | Carter | June 21, 1979 | June 11, 2002 | Incumbent | 22 years, 355 days | 45 years, 62 days |
Dolores Sloviter | 3rd Cir. | Carter | June 21, 1979 | June 21, 2013 | Incumbent | 34 years, 0 days | 45 years, 62 days | |
149 | Rabe Ferguson Marsh Jr. | W.D. Pa. | Truman | June 8, 1950 | January 31, 1977 | April 19, 1993 | 26 years, 237 days | 42 years, 315 days |
150 | R. Lanier Anderson III | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Carter n/a[6] |
July 13, 1979 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 January 31, 2009 |
Incumbent |
29 years, 202 days | 45 years, 40 days |
Carolyn Dineen King | 5th Cir. | Carter | July 13, 1979 | December 31, 2013 | Incumbent | 34 years, 171 days | 45 years, 40 days | |
152 | Marvin Aspen | N.D. Ill. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | July 1, 2002 | Incumbent | 22 years, 342 days | 45 years, 29 days |
Susan H. Black | M.D. Fla. 11th Cir. |
Carter G.H.W. Bush |
July 24, 1979 September 3, 1992 |
August 12, 1992 February 25, 2011 |
Incumbent |
31 years, 227 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
Orinda Dale Evans | N.D. Ga. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | December 31, 2008 | Incumbent | 29 years, 160 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
Sylvia H. Rambo | M.D. Pa. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | April 18, 2001 | Incumbent | 21 years, 268 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
Robert L. Vining Jr. | N.D. Ga. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | March 31, 1996 | Incumbent | 16 years, 251 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
157 | Myron L. Gordon | E.D. Wis. | L.B.J. | March 4, 1967 | February 12, 1983 | November 3, 2009 | 15 years, 345 days | 42 years, 244 days |
158 | James Clinkscales Hill | N.D. Ga. 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Nixon Ford n/a[6] |
August 9, 1974 May 21, 1976 October 1, 1981 |
May 26, 1976 October 1, 1981 October 15, 1989 |
March 31, 2017 |
15 years, 67 days | 42 years, 234 days |
159 | Mary M. Schroeder | 9th Cir. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | December 31, 2011 | Incumbent | 32 years, 96 days | 44 years, 331 days |
Stewart Albert Newblatt | E.D. Mo. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | December 23, 1993 | Incumbent | 14 years, 88 days | 44 years, 331 days | |
Howard F. Sachs | W.D. Mo. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | October 31, 1992 | Incumbent | 13 years, 35 days | 44 years, 331 days | |
162 | Arthur Jehu Stanley Jr. | D. Kan. | Eisenhower | July 7, 1958 | April 1, 1971 | January 27, 2001 | 12 years, 268 days | 42 years, 204 days |
163 | Stephanie Kulp Seymour | 10th Cir. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | October 16, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 348 days | 44 years, 294 days |
Alan Neil Bloch | W.D. Pa. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | April 12, 1997 | Incumbent | 17 years, 161 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
Barbara Brandriff Crabb | W.D. Wis. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | March 24, 2010 | Incumbent | 30 years, 142 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
Frank Howell Seay | E.D. Okla. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | September 23, 2003 | Incumbent | 23 years, 325 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
Anne Elise Thompson | D.N.J. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | June 1, 2001 | Incumbent | 21 years, 211 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
168 | Robert Hugh McWilliams Jr. | 10th Cir. | Nixon | October 14, 1970 | August 31, 1984 | April 10, 2013 | 13 years, 322 days | 42 years, 178 days |
169 | Morgan Ford | C.C. Int. Tr. |
Truman n/a[22] |
July 15, 1949 November 1, 1980 |
November 1, 1980 December 31, 1985 |
January 2, 1992 |
36 years, 169 days | 42 years, 171 days |
170 | William Bertelsman | E.D. Ky. | Carter | November 27, 1979 | February 1, 2001 | Incumbent | 21 years, 66 days | 44 years, 269 days |
Dudley Hollingsworth Bowen Jr. | S.D. Ga. | Carter | November 27, 1979 | June 25, 2006 | Incumbent | 26 years, 210 days | 44 years, 269 days | |
172 | Paul Jones | N.D. Ohio | Harding | March 2, 1923 | August 4, 1965 | n/a | 42 years, 155 days | 42 years, 155 days |
173 | José A. Cabranes | D. Conn. 2nd Cir. |
Carter Clinton |
December 10, 1979 August 10, 1994 |
August 12, 1994 Incumbent |
n/a | 44 years, 256 days | 44 years, 256 days |
174 | Dorothy Wright Nelson | 9th Cir. | Carter | December 20, 1979 | January 1, 1995 | Incumbent | 15 years, 12 days | 44 years, 246 days |
Terry J. Hatter Jr. | C.D. Cal. | Carter | December 20, 1979 | April 22, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 123 days | 44 years, 246 days | |
176 | Fenton Whitlock Booth | C.ofC. | T. Roosevelt[23] | March 17, 1905 | June 15, 1939 | July 26, 1947 | 34 years, 90 days | 42 years, 131 days |
Avern Cohn | E.D. Mich. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | October 9, 1999 | February 4, 2022 | 20 years, 13 days | 42 years, 131 days | |
178 | Walter Edward Hoffman | E.D. Va. | Eisenhower | July 15, 1954 | September 3, 1974 | November 21, 1996 | 20 years, 50 days | 42 years, 129 days |
179 | Monroe G. McKay | 10th Cir. | Carter | December 1, 1977 | December 31, 1993 | March 28, 2020 | 16 years, 30 days | 42 years, 118 days |
180 | Benjamin C. Dawkins Sr. | W.D. La. | Coolidge | May 5, 1924 | May 17, 1953 | August 22, 1966 | 29 years, 12 days | 42 years, 109 days |
181 | Albert J. Engel Jr. | W.D. Mich. 6th Cir. |
Nixon | December 18, 1970 December 19, 1973 |
January 4, 1974 October 1, 1989 |
April 5, 2013 |
18 years, 287 days | 42 years, 108 days |
182 | Irving Kaufman | S.D.N.Y. 2nd Cir. |
Truman Kennedy |
October 21, 1949[24] September 22, 1961 |
September 22, 1961 July 1, 1987 |
February 1, 1992 |
37 years, 253 days | 42 years, 103 days |
183 | Albert Sherman Christensen | D. Utah | Eisenhower | May 28, 1954 | August 17, 1971 | August 13, 1996 | 17 years, 81 days | 42 years, 77 days |
184 | Harry T. Edwards | D.C. Cir. | Carter | February 20, 1980 | November 2, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 255 days | 44 years, 184 days |
Barbara Jacobs Rothstein | W.D. Wash. | Carter | February 20, 1980 | September 1, 2011 | Incumbent | 31 years, 193 days | 44 years, 184 days | |
186 | Stanley Forman Reed | SCOTUS | F.D.R. | January 27, 1938 | February 25, 1957 | April 2, 1980 | 19 years, 29 days | 42 years, 66 days |
187 | John Biggs Jr. | 3rd Cir. | F.D.R. | February 16, 1937 | October 30, 1965 | April 15, 1979 | 28 years, 256 days | 42 years, 58 days |
188 | William Canby | 9th Cir. | Carter | May 23, 1980 | May 23, 1996 | Incumbent | 16 years, 0 days | 44 years, 91 days |
William Earl Britt | E.D.N.C. | Carter | May 23, 1980 | December 7, 1997 | Incumbent | 17 years, 198 days | 44 years, 91 days | |
Walter Herbert Rice | S.D. Ohio | Carter | May 23, 1980 | November 30, 2004 | Incumbent | 24 years, 191 days | 44 years, 91 days | |
191 | Edward Skottowe Northrop | D. Md. | Kennedy | September 5, 1961 | June 12, 1981 | August 12, 2003 | 19 years, 280 days | 41 years, 341 days |
192 | Richard Owen | S.D.N.Y. | Nixon | December 19, 1973 | September 30, 1989 | November 20, 2015 | 15 years, 285 days | 41 years, 336 days |
193 | Erskine Mayo Ross | S.D. Cal. 9th Cir. 9th Cir. |
Cleveland | January 13, 1887 February 22, 1895 February 22, 1895 |
March 5, 1895 December 31, 1911 May 31, 1925 |
December 10, 1928 |
38 years, 138 days | 41 years, 332 days |
194 | Elbert Tuttle | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Eisenhower n/a[6] |
August 4, 1954 n/a |
June 1, 1968 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 June 23, 1996 |
13 years, 302 days | 41 years, 324 days |
195 | John Minor Wisdom | 5th Cir. | Eisenhower | June 27, 1957 | January 15, 1977 | May 15, 1999 | 19 years, 202 days | 41 years, 322 days |
Luther L. Bohanon | E.D. Okla. N.D. Okla. W.D. Okla. |
Kennedy | August 30, 1961 | August 2, 1974 | July 18, 2003 | 12 years, 337 days | 41 years, 322 days | |
197 | Justin L. Quackenbush | E.D. Wash. | Carter | June 18, 1980 | June 27, 1995 | Incumbent | 15 years, 9 days | 44 years, 65 days |
198 | Thelton Henderson | N.D. Cal. | Carter | June 30, 1980 | November 28, 1998 | Incumbent | 18 years, 151 days | 44 years, 53 days |
A. Wallace Tashima | C.D. Cal. 9th Cir. |
Carter Clinton |
June 30, 1980 January 4, 1996 |
January 8, 1996 July 31, 2004 |
Incumbent |
24 years, 31 days | 44 years, 53 days | |
200 | James Clinton Turk | W.D. Va. | Nixon | October 17, 1972 | November 1, 2002 | July 6, 2014 | 30 years, 15 days | 41 years, 262 days |
201 | Warren J. Ferguson | C.D. Cal. 9th Cir. |
L.B.J. Carter |
November 3, 1966 November 27, 1979 |
December 20, 1979 July 31, 1986 |
June 25, 2008 |
19 years, 270 days | 41 years, 235 days |
202 | Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. | M.D. Tenn. | Carter | August 11, 1978 | November 3, 1995 | March 18, 2020 | 17 years, 84 days | 41 years, 220 days |
203 | Myron H. Thompson | M.D. Ala. | Carter | September 29, 1980 | August 22, 2013 | Incumbent | 32 years, 327 days | 43 years, 328 days |
204 | Charles P. Kocoras | N.D. Ill. | Carter | September 30, 1980 | June 30, 2006 | Incumbent | 25 years, 273 days | 43 years, 327 days |
Consuelo Bland Marshall | C.D. Cal. | Carter | September 30, 1980 | October 24, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 24 days | 43 years, 327 days | |
206 | James Thomas Foley | N.D.N.Y. | Truman | February 2, 1949 | June 30, 1980 | August 17, 1990 | 31 years, 149 days | 41 years, 196 days |
207 | Morris E. Lasker | S.D.N.Y. | L.B.J. | June 24, 1968 | October 3, 1983 | December 25, 2009 | 15 years, 101 days | 41 years, 184 days |
208 | Robert J. Kelleher | C.D. Cal. | Nixon | December 21, 1970 | March 5, 1983 | June 20, 2012 | 12 years, 74 days | 41 years, 182 days |
209 | John Feikens | E.D. Mich. E.D. Mich. |
Eisenhower Nixon |
October 13, 1960 December 1, 1970 |
September 27, 1961[25] March 1, 1986 |
May 15, 2011 |
16 years, 74 days | 41 years, 149 days |
210 | William J. Castagna | M.D. Fla. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | June 29, 1992 | December 18, 2020 | 12 years, 341 days | 41 years, 147 days |
211 | Stephen Breyer | 1st Cir. SCOTUS |
Carter Clinton |
December 10, 1980 August 2, 1994 |
August 2, 1994 Incumbent |
n/a | 43 years, 256 days | 43 years, 256 days |
212 | Thomas Morrow Reavley | 5th Cir. | Carter | July 13, 1979 | August 1, 1990 | December 1, 2020 | 11 years, 19 days | 41 years, 141 days |
213 | William Wayne Justice | E.D. Tex. | L.B.J. | June 7, 1968 | June 30, 1998 | October 13, 2009 | 30 years, 23 days | 41 years, 128 days |
214 | Charles Fremont Amidon | D.N.D. | Cleveland | August 31, 1896 | June 2, 1928 | December 26, 1937 | 31 years, 276 days | 41 years, 117 days |
215 | Richard Dean Rogers | D. Kans. | Ford | August 5, 1975 | January 1, 1989 | November 25, 2016 | 13 years, 149 days | 41 years, 112 days |
216 | Joe Oscar Eaton | S.D. Fla. | L.B.J. | June 12, 1967 | April 2, 1985 | September 28, 2008 | 17 years, 294 days | 41 years, 108 days |
217 | Tom Stagg | W.D. La. | Nixon | March 8, 1974 | February 29, 1992 | June 23, 2015 | 17 years, 358 days | 41 years, 107 days |
218 | Richard Johnson Putnam | W.D. La. | Kennedy | September 18, 1961 | December 19, 1975 | December 16, 2002 | 14 years, 92 days | 41 years, 89 days |
219 | Edward Matthew Curran | D.D.C. | Truman | October 16, 1946[26] | April 2, 1971 | January 10, 1988 | 24 years, 168 days | 41 years, 86 days |
220 | Allen Burroughs Hannay | S.D. Tex. | F.D.R. | August 12, 1942 | August 6, 1975 | October 22, 1983 | 32 years, 359 days | 41 years, 71 days |
221 | Kimbrough Stone | 8th Cir. | Wilson | December 21, 1916 | May 15, 1947 | February 27, 1958 | 30 years, 145 days | 41 years, 68 days |
222 | Paul Charles Weick | N.D. Ohio 6th Cir. |
Eisenhower | March 29, 1956 September 10, 1959 |
October 7, 1959 December 31, 1981 |
May 22, 1997 |
25 years, 277 days | 41 years, 54 days |
223 | Elijah Paine | D. Vt. | J. Adams | February 25, 1801 | April 1, 1842 | n/a | 41 years, 35 days | 41 years, 35 days |
224 | William Bondy | S.D.N.Y. | Harding | March 2, 1923 | May 1, 1956 | March 30, 1964 | 33 years, 60 days | 41 years, 28 days |
225 | Ellen Bree Burns | D. Conn. | Carter | May 18, 1978 | September 1, 1992 | June 3, 2019 | 14 years, 106 days | 41 years, 16 days |
226 | Juan Pérez-Giménez | D.P.R. | Carter | December 6, 1979 | March 28, 2006 | December 10, 2020 | 26 years, 112 days | 41 years, 4 days |
227 | Charles Casper Simons | E.D. Mich. 6th Cir. |
Harding Hoover |
February 6, 1923 January 29, 1932 |
February 2, 1932 September 15, 1959 |
February 2, 1964 |
36 years, 221 days | 40 years, 361 days |
228 | Robert W. Sweet | S.D.N.Y. | Carter | April 28, 1978 | March 1, 1991 | March 24, 2019 | 12 years, 307 days | 40 years, 330 days |
229 | Charles C. Nott | C.ofC. | Lincoln[27] | February 22, 1865 | December 31, 1905 | n/a | 40 years, 312 days | 40 years, 312 days |
230 | Joseph Jerome Farris | 9th Cir. | Carter | September 27, 1979 | March 4, 1995 | July 23, 2020 | 15 years, 158 days | 40 years, 300 days |
231 | Harrie B. Chase | 2nd Cir. | Coolidge | January 31, 1929 | September 1, 1954 | November 17, 1969 | 25 years, 213 days | 40 years, 290 days |
232 | Joseph Jefferson Fisher | E.D. Tex. | Eisenhower | September 10, 1959 | January 30, 1984 | June 19, 2000 | 24 years, 142 days | 40 years, 283 days |
233 | William J. Brennan Jr. | SCOTUS | Eisenhower | October 15, 1956[28] | July 20, 1990 | July 24, 1997 | 33 years, 278 days | 40 years, 282 days |
234 | Donald P. Lay | 8th Cir. | L.B.J. | July 22, 1966 | January 7, 1992 | April 29, 2007 | 25 years, 169 days | 40 years, 281 days |
Malcolm Muir | M.D. Pa. | Nixon | October 14, 1970 | August 31, 1984 | July 22, 2011 | 13 years, 322 days | 40 years, 281 days | |
236 | William Charles Lee | N.D. Ind. | Reagan | July 28, 1981 | February 3, 2003 | Incumbent | 21 years, 190 days | 43 years, 25 days |
237 | William O. Douglas | SCOTUS | F.D.R. | April 15, 1939 | November 12, 1975 | January 19, 1980 | 36 years, 211 days | 40 years, 279 days |
238 | Edward Roscoe Meek | N.D. Tex. | McKinley | July 13, 1898 | December 31, 1935 | April 10, 1939 | 37 years, 171 days | 40 years, 271 days |
239 | Ronald Davies | D.N.D. | Eisenhower | July 27, 1955 | August 27, 1971 | April 18, 1996 | 16 years, 31 days | 40 years, 266 days |
240 | Carmen Consuelo Cerezo | D.P.R. | Carter | June 30, 1980 | February 28, 2021 | n/a | 40 years, 243 days | 40 years, 243 days |
241 | Sandra Day O'Connor | SCOTUS | Reagan | September 22, 1981 | January 31, 2006 | Incumbent | 24 years, 131 days | 42 years, 335 days |
242 | John C. Coughenour | W.D. Wash. | Reagan | September 28, 1981 | July 26, 2006 | Incumbent | 24 years, 301 days | 42 years, 329 days |
Henry Rupert Wilhoit Jr. | E.D. Ky. | Reagan | September 28, 1981 | December 31, 2000 | Incumbent | 19 years, 94 days | 42 years, 329 days | |
244 | William Hoeveler | S.D. Fla. | Carter | April 26, 1977 | January 31, 1991 | November 18, 2017 | 13 years, 280 days | 40 years, 206 days |
245 | James E. Barrett | 10th Cir. | Nixon | April 23, 1971 | April 8, 1987 | November 7, 2011 | 15 years, 350 days | 40 years, 198 days |
246 | Hayden Wilson Head Jr. | S.D. Tex. | Reagan | October 26, 1981 | November 13, 2009 | Incumbent | 28 years, 18 days | 42 years, 301 days |
James Robertson Nowlin | W.D. Tex. | Reagan | October 26, 1981 | May 31, 2003 | Incumbent | 21 years, 217 days | 42 years, 301 days | |
248 | William Schwarzer | N.D. Cal. | Ford | July 23, 1976 | April 30, 1991 | January 28, 2017 | 14 years, 281 days | 40 years, 189 days |
249 | Robert A. Grant | N.D. Ind. | Eisenhower | August 26, 1957 | December 1, 1972 | March 2, 1998 | 15 years, 97 days | 40 years, 188 days |
250 | Paul A. Magnuson | D. Minn. | Reagan | October 29, 1981 | February 9, 2002 | Incumbent | 21 years, 97 days | 42 years, 298 days |
251 | Thomas E. Fairchild | 7th Cir. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1966 | August 31, 1981 | February 12, 2007 | 15 years, 20 days | 40 years, 185 days |
252 | Richard Harvey Chambers | 9th Cir. | Eisenhower | April 30, 1954 | December 31, 1976 | October 21, 1994 | 22 years, 245 days | 40 years, 174 days |
Lee Roy West | W.D. Okla. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | November 26, 1994 | April 24, 2020 | 15 years, 24 days | 40 years, 174 days | |
254 | C. Arlen Beam | D. Neb. 8th Cir. |
Reagan | November 18, 1981 November 9, 1987 |
November 9, 1987 February 1, 2001 |
Incumbent |
19 years, 75 days | 42 years, 278 days |
John Bailey Jones | D.S.D. | Reagan | November 18, 1981 | January 1, 1995 | Incumbent | 13 years, 44 days | 42 years, 278 days | |
256 | Ogden Hoffman Jr. | N.D. Cal. S.D. Cal. D. Cal. N.D. Cal. |
Fillmore n/a[29] n/a[30] n/a[31] |
February 27, 1851 August 31, 1852 July 23, 1866 August 5, 1886 |
July 23, 1866 January 18, 1854 August 5, 1886 August 9, 1891 |
n/a | 40 years, 163 days | 40 years, 163 days |
257 | Paul Peter Rao | C.C. Int. Tr. |
Truman n/a[22] |
June 22, 1948[32] November 1, 1980 |
November 1, 1980 November 30, 1988 |
n/a | 40 years, 161 days | 40 years, 161 days |
258 | James William Locke | S.D. Fla. | Grant | February 1, 1872 | July 4, 1912 | n/a | 40 years, 154 days | 40 years, 154 days |
259 | Robert G. Doumar | E.D. Va. | Reagan | December 3, 1981 | April 30, 1996 | Incumbent | 14 years, 149 days | 42 years, 263 days |
260 | Sam A. Crow | D. Kan. | Reagan | December 10, 1981 | November 15, 1996 | Incumbent | 14 years, 341 days | 42 years, 256 days |
I. Leo Glasser | E.D.N.Y. | Reagan | December 10, 1981 | July 1, 1993 | Incumbent | 11 years, 203 days | 42 years, 256 days | |
262 | John Davis | D. Mass. | J. Adams | February 20, 1801 | July 10, 1841 | n/a | 40 years, 140 days | 40 years, 140 days |
263 | David Lynn Russell | E.D. Okla. N.D. Okla. W.D. Okla. |
Reagan | December 17, 1981 December 17, 1981 December 17, 1981 |
December 1, 1990 December 1, 1990 July 7, 2013 |
Incumbent |
31 years, 202 days | 42 years, 249 days |
264 | Otto Richard Skopil Jr. | D. Or. 9th Cir. |
Nixon Carter |
June 2, 1972 September 26, 1979 |
October 20, 1979 June 30, 1986 |
October 18, 2012 |
14 years, 28 days | 40 years, 138 days |
265 | Charles Guy Briggle | S.D. Ill. | Hoover | January 25, 1932 | August 1, 1958 | June 6, 1972 | 26 years, 188 days | 40 years, 133 days |
266 | Samuel Rossiter Betts | S.D.N.Y. | J. Q. Adams | December 21, 1826 | April 30, 1867 | n/a | 40 years, 130 days | 40 years, 130 days |
267 | Howard Boyd Turrentine | S.D. Cal. | Nixon | April 24, 1970 | January 22, 1984 | August 20, 2010 | 13 years, 273 days | 40 years, 118 days |
268 | John Pitman | D.R.I. | Monroe | August 4, 1824 | November 17, 1864 | n/a | 40 years, 105 days | 40 years, 105 days |
269 | Lewis Render Morgan | N.D. Ga. 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Kennedy L.B.J. n/a[6] |
August 10, 1961 July 25, 1968 n/a |
August 2, 1968 September 1, 1978 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 November 15, 2001 |
17 years, 22 days | 40 years, 97 days |
270 | William B. Bryant | D.D.C. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1965 | January 31, 1982 | November 13, 2005 | 16 years, 173 days | 40 years, 94 days |
271 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | D.C. Cir. SCOTUS |
Carter Clinton |
June 18, 1980 August 5, 1993 |
August 9, 1993 September 18, 2020 |
n/a | 40 years, 92 days | 40 years, 92 days |
272 | James L. Foreman | E.D. Ill. S.D. Ill. |
Nixon n/a[33] |
March 7, 1972 March 31, 1979 |
March 31, 1979 June 1, 1992 |
June 3, 2012 |
20 years, 86 days | 40 years, 88 days |
273 | Michael Stephen Kanne | N.D. Ind. 7th Cir. |
Reagan | February 9, 1982 May 20, 1987 |
May 21, 1987 Incumbent |
n/a | 42 years, 195 days | 42 years, 195 days |
James Tyne Moody | N.D. Ind. | Reagan | February 9, 1982 | June 17, 2003 | Incumbent | 21 years, 128 days | 42 years, 195 days | |
275 | Earl R. Larson | D. Minn. | Kennedy | August 10, 1961 | June 30, 1977 | October 31, 2001 | 15 years, 324 days | 40 years, 82 days |
276 | Procter Ralph Hug Jr. | 9th Cir. | Carter | September 15, 1977 | January 1, 2002 | November 30, 2017 | 24 years, 108 days | 40 years, 76 days |
277 | Warren William Eginton | D. Conn. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | August 1, 1992 | October 7, 2019 | 13 years, 8 days | 40 years, 75 days |
278 | Elizabeth A. Kovachevich | M.D. Fla. | Reagan | March 9, 1982 | December 14, 2018 | Incumbent | 36 years, 280 days | 42 years, 166 days |
279 | F. Ryan Duffy | E.D. Wis. 7th Cir. |
F.D.R. Truman |
June 29, 1939 February 2, 1949 |
February 2, 1949 June 30, 1966 |
August 16, 1979 |
27 years, 1 day | 40 years, 48 days |
280 | Delmas Carl Hill | D. Kan. 10th Cir. |
Truman Kennedy |
October 21, 1949[34] September 22, 1961 |
September 28, 1961 April 1, 1977 |
December 2, 1989 |
27 years, 162 days | 40 years, 42 days |
281 | James A. Redden | D. Or. | Carter | February 20, 1980 | March 13, 1995 | March 31, 2020 | 15 years, 21 days | 40 years, 40 days |
282 | Floyd Robert Gibson | W.D. Mo. 8th Cir. |
Kennedy L.B.J. |
August 30, 1961 June 8, 1965 |
June 20, 1965 December 31, 1979 |
October 4, 2001 |
18 years, 123 days | 40 years, 35 days |
283 | Augustus Noble Hand | S.D.N.Y. 2nd Cir. |
Wilson Coolidge |
September 30, 1914 May 19, 1927[35] |
June 1, 1927 June 30, 1953 |
October 28, 1954 |
38 years, 273 days | 40 years, 28 days |
284 | Morris Ames Soper | D. Md. 4th Cir. |
Harding Hoover |
February 24, 1923 May 6, 1931[36] |
May 9, 1931 June 2, 1955 |
March 11, 1963 |
32 years, 98 days | 40 years, 15 days |
285 | William Thomas Hart | N.D. Ill. | Reagan | April 21, 1982 | June 1, 1996 | Incumbent | 14 years, 41 days | 42 years, 123 days |
286 | Byron White | SCOTUS | Kennedy | April 12, 1962 | June 28, 1993 | April 15, 2002 | 31 years, 77 days | 40 years, 3 days |
United States Supreme Court
No Justice has served actively on the United States Supreme Court for over 40 years, but six have eclipsed that timespan through senior service.
Rank | Judge | Appointed by | Began active service | Ended active service | Ended senior status | Total active service | Total service |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | John Paul Stevens | Ford | December 17, 1975 | June 29, 2010 | July 16, 2019 | 34 years, 194 days | 43 years, 211 days |
2 | Stanley Forman Reed | F.D.R. | January 27, 1938 | February 25, 1957 | April 2, 1980 | 19 years, 29 days | 42 years, 66 days |
3 | William J. Brennan Jr. | Eisenhower | October 15, 1956[28] | July 20, 1990 | July 24, 1997 | 33 years, 278 days | 40 years, 282 days |
4 | William O. Douglas | F.D.R. | April 15, 1939 | November 12, 1975 | January 19, 1980 | 36 years, 211 days | 40 years, 279 days |
5 | Sandra Day O'Connor | Reagan | September 22, 1981 | January 31, 2006 | Incumbent | 24 years, 131 days | 42 years, 335 days |
6 | Byron White | Kennedy | April 12, 1962 | June 28, 1993 | April 15, 2002 | 31 years, 77 days | 40 years, 3 days |
United States courts of appeals
Only one judge, Gerald Bard Tjoflat, has served more than 40 years actively on an intermediate appellate court constituted by the Judiciary Act of 1869 or subsequent legislation, however many have eclipsed that timespan through senior service:
Rank | Judge | Court | Appointed by | Began active service | Ended active service | Ended senior status | Total active service | Total service |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | James R. Browning | 9th Cir. | Kennedy | September 18, 1961 | September 1, 2000 | May 6, 2012 | 38 years, 349 days | 50 years, 231 days |
2 | Albert Branson Maris | 3rd Cir. | F.D.R. | June 24, 1938 | December 31, 1958 | February 7, 1989 | 20 years, 190 days | 50 years, 228 days |
3 | Alfred Goodwin | 9th Cir. | Nixon | November 30, 1971 | January 31, 1991 | Incumbent | 19 years, 62 days | 52 years, 266 days |
4 | John Clifford Wallace | 9th Cir. | Nixon | June 28, 1972 | April 8, 1996 | Incumbent | 23 years, 285 days | 52 years, 55 days |
5 | Levin H. Campbell | 1st Cir. | Nixon | June 30, 1972 | January 3, 1992 | Incumbent | 19 years, 187 days | 52 years, 53 days |
6 | Thomas Walter Swan | 2nd Cir. | Coolidge | December 22, 1926 | July 1, 1953 | July 13, 1975 | 26 years, 191 days | 48 years, 203 days |
7 | Myron H. Bright | 8th Cir. | L.B.J. | June 7, 1968 | June 1, 1985 | December 12, 2016 | 16 years, 359 days | 48 years, 188 days |
8 | Wilfred Feinberg | 2nd Cir. | L.B.J. | March 7, 1966 | January 31, 1991 | July 31, 2014 | 24 years, 330 days | 48 years, 146 days |
9 | William J. Bauer | 7th Cir. | Ford | December 20, 1974 | October 31, 1994 | Incumbent | 19 years, 315 days | 49 years, 246 days |
10 | Gerald Bard Tjoflat | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Ford n/a[6] |
November 21, 1975 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 November 19, 2019 |
Incumbent |
43 years, 363 days | 48 years, 275 days |
11 | Ruggero J. Aldisert | 3rd Cir. | L.B.J. | July 29, 1968 | December 31, 1986 | December 28, 2014 | 18 years, 155 days | 46 years, 152 days |
12 | William Judson Holloway Jr. | 10th Cir. | L.B.J. | September 16, 1968 | May 31, 1992 | April 25, 2014 | 23 years, 258 days | 45 years, 221 days |
13 | Orie Leon Phillips | 10th Cir. | Hoover | April 29, 1929 | January 1, 1956 | November 14, 1974 | 26 years, 247 days | 45 years, 199 days |
14 | Joseph William Woodrough | 8th Cir. | F.D.R. | April 12, 1933 | January 3, 1961 | October 2, 1977 | 27 years, 266 days | 44 years, 173 days |
15 | Peter T. Fay | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Ford n/a[6] |
September 21, 1976 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 January 19, 1994 |
January 31, 2021 |
17 years, 120 days | 44 years, 132 days |
16 | Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. | 6th Cir. | Carter | October 31, 1977 | January 17, 2001 | January 17, 2022 | 23 years, 78 days | 44 years, 78 days |
17 | Frank M. Coffin | 1st Cir. | L.B.J. | October 2, 1965 | February 1, 1989 | December 7, 2009 | 23 years, 122 days | 44 years, 66 days |
18 | J. Edward Lumbard | 2d Cir. | Eisenhower | July 12, 1955 | July 20, 1971 | June 3, 1999 | 16 years, 8 days | 43 years, 326 days |
19 | Pierce Lively | 6th Cir. | Nixon | October 5, 1972 | January 1, 1989 | March 12, 2016 | 16 years, 88 days | 43 years, 159 days |
20 | John Cooper Godbold | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
L.B.J. n/a[6] |
July 22, 1966 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 October 23, 1987 |
December 22, 2009 |
21 years, 93 days | 43 years, 153 days |
21 | David L. Bazelon | D.C. Cir. | Truman | October 21, 1949[19] | June 30, 1979 | February 19, 1993 | 29 years, 252 days | 43 years, 121 days |
22 | Leonard I. Garth | 3rd Cir. | Nixon | August 6, 1973 | June 30, 1986 | September 22, 2016 | 12 years, 328 days | 43 years, 47 days |
23 | Bailey Aldrich | 1st Cir. | Eisenhower | September 10, 1959 | August 31, 1972 | September 25, 2002 | 12 years, 356 days | 43 years, 15 days |
24 | Donald Roe Ross | 8th Cir. | Nixon | December 12, 1970 | June 13, 1987 | December 18, 2013 | 16 years, 183 days | 43 years, 6 days |
25 | Amalya Lyle Kearse | 2nd Cir. | Carter | June 21, 1979 | June 11, 2002 | Incumbent | 22 years, 355 days | 45 years, 62 days |
Jon O. Newman | 2nd Cir. | Carter | June 21, 1979 | July 1, 1997 | Incumbent | 18 years, 10 days | 45 years, 62 days | |
Dolores Sloviter | 3rd Cir. | Carter | June 21, 1979 | June 21, 2013 | Incumbent | 34 years, 0 days | 45 years, 62 days | |
28 | R. Lanier Anderson III | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Carter n/a[6] |
July 13, 1979 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 January 31, 2009 |
Incumbent |
29 years, 202 days | 45 years, 40 days |
Carolyn Dineen King | 5th Cir. | Carter | July 13, 1979 | December 31, 2013 | Incumbent | 34 years, 171 days | 45 years, 40 days | |
30 | Mary M. Schroeder | 9th Cir. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | December 31, 2011 | Incumbent | 32 years, 96 days | 44 years, 331 days |
31 | Stephanie Kulp Seymour | 10th Cir. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | October 16, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 348 days | 44 years, 294 days |
32 | Robert Hugh McWilliams Jr. | 10th Cir. | Nixon | October 14, 1970 | August 31, 1984 | April 10, 2013 | 13 years, 322 days | 42 years, 178 days |
33 | Dorothy Wright Nelson | 9th Cir. | Carter | December 20, 1979 | January 1, 1995 | Incumbent | 15 years, 12 days | 44 years, 246 days |
34 | Monroe G. McKay | 10th Cir. | Carter | December 1, 1977 | December 31, 1993 | March 28, 2020 | 16 years, 30 days | 42 years, 118 days |
35 | Harry T. Edwards | D.C. Cir. | Carter | February 20, 1980 | November 2, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 255 days | 44 years, 184 days |
36 | John Biggs Jr. | 3rd Cir. | F.D.R. | February 16, 1937 | October 30, 1965 | April 15, 1979 | 28 years, 256 days | 42 years, 58 days |
37 | Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. | 5th Cir. | Hoover | January 26, 1931 | November 4, 1964 | January 18, 1973 | 33 years, 283 days | 41 years, 358 days |
38 | William Canby | 9th Cir. | Carter | May 23, 1980 | May 23, 1996 | Incumbent | 16 years, 0 days | 44 years, 91 days |
39 | Elbert Tuttle | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Eisenhower n/a[6] |
August 4, 1954 n/a |
June 1, 1968 October 1, 1981 |
June 23, 1996 |
27 years, 58 days | 41 years, 324 days |
40 | John Minor Wisdom | 5th Cir. | Eisenhower | June 27, 1957 | January 15, 1977 | May 15, 1999 | 19 years, 202 days | 41 years, 322 days |
41 | Damon Keith | 6th Cir. | Carter | October 21, 1977 | May 1, 1995 | April 28, 2019 | 17 years, 192 days | 41 years, 189 days |
42 | Thomas Morrow Reavley | 5th Cir. | Carter | July 13, 1979 | August 1, 1990 | December 1, 2020 | 11 years, 19 days | 41 years, 141 days |
43 | Kimbrough Stone | 8th Cir. | Wilson | December 21, 1916 | May 15, 1947 | February 27, 1958 | 30 years, 145 days | 41 years, 68 days |
44 | Joseph Buffington | 3rd Cir. | T. Roosevelt | September 25, 1906[3] | June 1, 1938 | October 21, 1947 | 31 years, 249 days | 41 years, 26 days |
45 | Joseph F. Weis Jr. | 3rd Cir. | Nixon | March 15, 1973 | April 1, 1988 | March 17, 2014 | 15 years, 17 days | 41 years, 2 days |
46 | James Clinkscales Hill | 5th Cir. 11th Cir. |
Ford n/a[6] |
May 21, 1976 October 1, 1981 |
October 1, 1981 October 15, 1989 |
March 31, 2017 |
13 years, 147 days | 40 years, 314 days |
47 | Joseph Jerome Farris | 9th Cir. | Carter | September 27, 1979 | March 4, 1995 | July 23, 2020 | 15 years, 158 days | 40 years, 300 days |
48 | Harrie B. Chase | 2nd Cir. | Coolidge | January 31, 1929 | September 1, 1954 | November 17, 1969 | 25 years, 213 days | 40 years, 290 days |
49 | Donald P. Lay | 8th Cir. | L.B.J. | July 22, 1966 | January 7, 1992 | April 29, 2007 | 25 years, 169 days | 40 years, 281 days |
50 | James E. Barrett | 10th Cir. | Nixon | April 23, 1971 | April 8, 1987 | November 7, 2011 | 15 years, 350 days | 40 years, 198 days |
51 | Thomas E. Fairchild | 7th Cir. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1966 | August 31, 1981 | February 12, 2007 | 15 years, 20 days | 40 years, 185 days |
52 | Richard Harvey Chambers | 9th Cir. | Eisenhower | April 30, 1954 | December 31, 1976 | October 21, 1994 | 22 years, 245 days | 40 years, 174 days |
53 | Procter Ralph Hug Jr. | 9th Cir. | Carter | September 15, 1977 | January 1, 2002 | November 30, 2017 | 24 years, 108 days | 40 years, 76 days |
United States district courts
Judges who have sat on a United States District Court for more than 40 years.
Rank | Judge | Court | Appointed by | Began active service | Ended active service | Ended senior status | Total active service | Total service |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | William Joseph Nealon Jr. | M.D. Pa. | Kennedy | December 13, 1962[2] | January 1, 1989 | August 30, 2018 | 26 years, 19 days | 55 years, 260 days |
2 | Henry Potter | D.N.C. | Jefferson | April 7, 1802 | December 20, 1857 | n/a | 55 years, 257 days | 55 years, 257 days |
3 | Seybourn Harris Lynne | N.D. Ala. | Truman | January 3, 1946 | January 9, 1973 | September 10, 2000 | 27 years, 6 days | 54 years, 251 days |
4 | Edward Joseph McManus | N.D. Iowa | Kennedy | July 16, 1962 | February 9, 1985 | March 20, 2017 | 22 years, 208 days | 54 years, 247 days |
5 | Jack B. Weinstein | E.D.N.Y. | L.B.J. | April 25, 1967 | March 1, 1993 | June 15, 2021 | 25 years, 310 days | 54 years, 51 days |
6 | George C. Young | S.D. Fla. N.D. Fla. M.D. Fla. |
Kennedy | September 18, 1961 September 18, 1961 October 29, 1962 |
September 17, 1966 September 17, 1966 October 19, 1981 |
April 24, 2015 |
20 years, 31 days | 53 years, 218 days |
7 | Manuel Real | C.D. Cal. | L.B.J. | November 3, 1966 | November 4, 2018 | June 26, 2019 | 52 years, 1 day | 52 years, 235 days |
8 | John P. Fullam | E.D. Pa. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1966 | April 1, 1990 | March 8, 2018 | 23 years, 233 days | 51 years, 209 days |
9 | James Lawrence King | S.D. Fla. | Nixon | October 19, 1970 | December 20, 1992 | Incumbent | 22 years, 62 days | 53 years, 308 days |
10 | Alexander Harvey II | D. Md. | L.B.J. | September 22, 1966 | March 8, 1991 | December 4, 2017 | 24 years, 167 days | 51 years, 73 days |
11 | William Augustus Bootle | M.D. Ga. | Eisenhower | May 20, 1954 | March 11, 1972 | January 25, 2005 | 17 years, 296 days | 50 years, 250 days |
12 | Myron Donovan Crocker | S.D. Cal. E.D. Cal. |
Eisenhower n/a[7] |
September 21, 1959 September 18, 1966 |
September 18, 1966 January 1, 1981 |
February 2, 2010 |
21 years, 102 days | 50 years, 134 days |
13 | Charles Miller Metzner | S.D.N.Y. | Eisenhower | September 10, 1959 | September 30, 1977 | November 30, 2009 | 18 years, 20 days | 50 years, 81 days |
14 | Walter Thomas McGovern | W.D. Wash. | Nixon | April 23, 1971 | September 30, 1987 | July 8, 2021 | 16 years, 160 days | 50 years, 76 days |
15 | Carl Olaf Bue Jr. | S.D. Tex. | Nixon | October 15, 1970 | September 2, 1987 | December 24, 2020 | 16 years, 350 days | 50 years, 70 days |
16 | William Terrell Hodges | M.D. Fla. | Nixon | December 15, 1971 | May 2, 1999 | January 4, 2022 | 27 years, 138 days | 50 years, 20 days |
17 | Wesley E. Brown | D. Kan. | Kennedy | April 4, 1962 | September 1, 1979 | January 23, 2012 | 17 years, 150 days | 49 years, 294 days |
18 | John Thomas Curtin | W.D.N.Y | L.B.J. | December 14, 1967 | July 1, 1989 | April 14, 2017 | 21 years, 199 days | 49 years, 121 days |
19 | Daniel Holcombe Thomas | S.D. Ala. | Truman | March 9, 1951 | August 25, 1971 | April 13, 2000 | 20 years, 169 days | 49 years, 35 days |
20 | David Norton Edelstein | S.D.N.Y. | Truman | November 1, 1951[8] | November 1, 1994 | August 19, 2000 | 43 years, 0 days | 48 years, 292 days |
21 | Donald West VanArtsdalen | E.D. Pa. | Nixon | October 15, 1970 | October 21, 1985 | May 21, 2019 | 15 years, 6 days | 48 years, 218 days |
22 | Willard Hall | D. Del. | Monroe | May 6, 1823[9] | December 6, 1871 | n/a | 48 years, 214 days | 48 years, 214 days |
23 | John William Ditter Jr. | E.D. Pa. | Nixon | October 15, 1970 | October 19, 1986 | April 7, 2019 | 16 years, 4 days | 48 years, 174 days |
24 | Edwin F. Hunter | W.D. La. | Eisenhower | October 3, 1953[10] | February 19, 1976 | February 22, 2002 | 22 years, 139 days | 48 years, 142 days |
25 | Frederick Jacob Reagan Heebe | E.D. La. | L.B.J. | March 26, 1966 | August 26, 1992 | August 10, 2014 | 26 years, 153 days | 48 years, 137 days |
26 | John C. Knox | S.D.N.Y. | Wilson | April 12, 1918 | April 30, 1955 | August 23, 1966 | 37 years, 18 days | 48 years, 133 days |
27 | Albert Vickers Bryan Jr. | E.D. Va. | Nixon | July 29, 1971 | December 1, 1991 | August 27, 2019 | 20 years, 125 days | 48 years, 29 days |
28 | William Joseph Campbell | N.D. Ill. | F.D.R. | October 10, 1940 | March 19, 1970 | October 19, 1988 | 29 years, 160 days | 48 years, 9 days |
29 | Samuel Conti | N.D. Cal. | Nixon | October 16, 1970 | November 1, 1987 | August 29, 2018 | 17 years, 16 days | 47 years, 317 days |
30 | Albert L. Reeves | W.D. Mo. | Harding | June 24, 1923 | February 2, 1954 | March 24, 1971 | 30 years, 223 days | 47 years, 273 days |
31 | William Benner Enright | S.D. Cal. | Nixon | June 30, 1972 | July 12, 1990 | March 7, 2020 | 18 years, 12 days | 47 years, 251 days |
32 | Donald Alsop | D. Minn. | Ford | December 20, 1974 | August 28, 1992 | Incumbent | 17 years, 252 days | 49 years, 246 days |
33 | Garnett Thomas Eisele | E.D. Ark. | Nixon | August 6, 1970 | August 1, 1991 | November 26, 2017 | 20 years, 360 days | 47 years, 112 days |
34 | Marion Speed Boyd | W.D. Tenn. | F.D.R. | September 27, 1940 | August 1, 1966 | January 9, 1988 | 25 years, 308 days | 47 years, 104 days |
35 | James Hughes Hancock | N.D. Ala. | Nixon | April 17, 1973 | May 1, 1996 | July 24, 2020 | 23 years, 14 days | 47 years, 98 days |
36 | Warren Keith Urbom | D. Neb. | Nixon | April 24, 1970 | December 31, 1990 | July 28, 2017 | 20 years, 251 days | 47 years, 95 days |
37 | James von der Heydt | D. Alaska | L.B.J. | November 3, 1966 | July 15, 1984 | December 1, 2013 | 17 years, 255 days | 47 years, 28 days |
38 | William Henry Stafford Jr. | N.D. Fla. | Ford | May 14, 1975 | May 31, 1996 | Incumbent | 21 years, 17 days | 49 years, 100 days |
39 | William Clark O'Kelley | N.D. Ga. | Nixon | October 16, 1970 | October 1, 1996 | July 5, 2017 | 25 years, 351 days | 46 years, 262 days |
40 | George M. Bourquin | D. Mont. | Taft | March 8, 1912 | March 9, 1934 | November 15, 1958 | 22 years, 1 day | 46 years, 252 days |
41 | Gunnar Nordbye | D. Minn. | Hoover | March 18, 1931[11] | March 6, 1967 | November 5, 1977 | 35 years, 353 days | 46 years, 232 days |
42 | Roy Winfield Harper[12] | W.D. Mo. E.D. Mo. |
Truman | August 7, 1947 | January 5, 1971 | February 13, 1994 | 23 years, 151 days | 46 years, 190 days |
43 | Charles William Kraft Jr. | E.D. Pa. | Eisenhower | August 12, 1955[13] | November 11, 1970 | January 18, 2002 | 15 years, 91 days | 46 years, 159 days |
44 | Joseph L. Tauro | D. Mass. | Nixon | October 17, 1972 | September 26, 2013 | November 30, 2018 | 40 years, 344 days | 46 years, 44 days |
45 | Charles S. Haight Jr. | S.D.N.Y. | Ford | March 29, 1976 | September 23, 1995 | Incumbent | 19 years, 178 days | 48 years, 146 days |
46 | Stephen Sanders Chandler Jr. | W.D. Okla. | F.D.R. | May 13, 1943 | October 20, 1975 | April 27, 1989 | 32 years, 160 days | 45 years, 349 days |
47 | Caleb Merrill Wright | D. Del. | Eisenhower | July 27, 1955 | October 8, 1973 | May 12, 2001 | 18 years, 73 days | 45 years, 289 days |
48 | John Thomas Copenhaver Jr. | S.D.W.Va. | Ford | September 3, 1976 | November 1, 2018 | Incumbent | 42 years, 59 days | 47 years, 354 days |
49 | Maurice Blanchard Cohill Jr. | W.D. Pa. | Ford | May 21, 1976 | November 28, 1994 | January 1, 2022 | 18 years, 191 days | 45 years, 225 days |
50 | R. James Harvey | E.D. Mich. | Nixon | December 19, 1973 | March 31, 1984 | July 20, 2019 | 10 years, 103 days | 45 years, 213 days |
51 | Dan Monroe Russell Jr. | S.D. Miss. | L.B.J. | October 2, 1965 | October 25, 1983 | April 16, 2011 | 18 years, 23 days | 45 years, 196 days |
52 | James Paul Churchill | E.D. Mich. | Ford | December 20, 1974 | December 31, 1989 | June 29, 2020 | 15 years, 11 days | 45 years, 192 days |
53 | Thomas Virgil Pittman | M.D. Ala. S.D. Ala. |
L.B.J. | June 29, 1966 June 29, 1966 |
June 2, 1970 July 15, 1981 |
January 6, 2012 |
15 years, 16 days | 45 years, 191 days |
54 | Elijah Allen Cox | N.D. Miss. | Coolidge | March 2, 1929 | March 22, 1957 | August 28, 1974 | 28 years, 20 days | 45 years, 179 days |
55 | Thomas P. Griesa | S.D.N.Y. | Nixon | June 30, 1972 | March 13, 2000 | December 24, 2017 | 27 years, 257 days | 45 years, 177 days |
56 | William Daniel Murray | D. Mont. | Truman | May 9, 1949 | December 31, 1965 | October 3, 1994 | 16 years, 236 days | 45 years, 147 days |
57 | Robert Earl Maxwell | N.D. W.Va. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1965 | July 19, 1995 | November 20, 2010 | 29 years, 342 days | 45 years, 101 days |
58 | Richard Paul Matsch | D. Col. | Nixon | March 8, 1974 | July 1, 2003 | May 26, 2019 | 29 years, 115 days | 45 years, 79 days |
59 | Joseph Putnam Willson | W.D. Pa. | Eisenhower | July 14, 1953 | October 18, 1968 | August 3, 1998 | 15 years, 96 days | 45 years, 20 days |
60 | William Elwood Steckler | S.D. Ind. | Truman | April 7, 1950 | December 31, 1986 | March 8, 1995 | 36 years, 268 days | 44 years, 335 days |
61 | Solomon Blatt Jr. | D.S.C. | Nixon | May 28, 1971 | May 7, 1990 | April 20, 2016 | 18 years, 344 days | 44 years, 328 days |
62 | Edward Louis Filippine | E.D. Mo. | Carter | July 22, 1977 | June 11, 1995 | Incumbent | 17 years, 324 days | 47 years, 31 days |
63 | Harold Lloyd Murphy | N.D. Ga. | Carter | July 29, 1977 | March 31, 2017 | Incumbent | 39 years, 245 days | 47 years, 24 days |
64 | Charles Wycliffe Joiner | E.D. Mich. | Nixon | June 9, 1972 | August 15, 1984 | March 10, 2017 | 12 years, 67 days | 44 years, 274 days |
65 | Gordon Thompson Jr. | S.D. Cal. | Nixon | October 16, 1970 | December 28, 1994 | July 5, 2015 | 24 years, 73 days | 44 years, 262 days |
66 | Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. | D. Mass. | F.D.R. | December 19, 1941 | September 1, 1971 | September 3, 1986 | 29 years, 256 days | 44 years, 258 days |
67 | Jennings Bailey | D.D.C. | Wilson | May 22, 1918 | November 1, 1950 | January 9, 1963 | 32 years, 163 days | 44 years, 232 days |
68 | Frederick Alvin Daugherty | E.D. Okla. N.D. Okla. W.D. Okla. |
Kennedy | October 5, 1961[14] | January 12, 1982 | April 7, 2006 | 20 years, 99 days | 44 years, 184 days |
69 | Matthew Francis McGuire | D.D.C. | F.D.R. | August 1, 1941 | October 7, 1966 | January 24, 1986 | 25 years, 67 days | 44 years, 176 days |
70 | Samuel Hugh Dillin | S.D. Ind. | Kennedy | September 22, 1961 | March 31, 1993 | March 13, 2006 | 31 years, 190 days | 44 years, 172 days |
71 | John L. Kane Jr. | D. Col. | Carter | December 16, 1977 | April 8, 1988 | Incumbent | 10 years, 114 days | 46 years, 250 days |
72 | Thomas Francis Murphy | S.D.N.Y. | Truman | July 2, 1951 | December 3, 1970 | October 26, 1995 | 19 years, 154 days | 44 years, 116 days |
73 | Ashur Ware | D. Me. | Monroe | February 15, 1822 | May 31, 1866 | n/a | 44 years, 105 days | 44 years, 105 days |
74 | John Clyde Bowen | W.D. Wash. | F.D.R. | March 20, 1934 | June 5, 1961 | April 27, 1978 | 27 years, 77 days | 44 years, 38 days |
75 | Harold P. Burke | W.D.N.Y. | F.D.R. | June 18, 1937 | June 15, 1981 | July 17, 1981 | 43 years, 362 days | 44 years, 29 days |
76 | John F. Grady | N.D. Ill. | Ford | November 21, 1975 | May 23, 1994 | December 2, 2019 | 18 years, 183 days | 44 years, 11 days |
77 | Kevin Duffy | S.D.N.Y. | Nixon | October 17, 1972 | January 10, 1998 | September 30, 2016 | 25 years, 85 days | 43 years, 349 days |
78 | Jose Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. | S.D. Fla. | Carter | July 28, 1978 | November 30, 1996 | Incumbent | 18 years, 125 days | 46 years, 25 days |
79 | William Huntington Kirkpatrick | E.D. Pa. | Coolidge | March 3, 1927 | May 1, 1958 | November 28, 1970 | 31 years, 59 days | 43 years, 270 days |
80 | Joseph H. Young | D. Md. | Nixon | July 29, 1971 | August 1, 1987 | March 15, 2015 | 16 years, 3 days | 43 years, 229 days |
81 | Bruce Sterling Jenkins | D. Utah | Carter | September 22, 1978 | September 30, 1994 | Incumbent | 16 years, 8 days | 45 years, 335 days |
82 | John Jay Jackson Jr. | W.D. Va. D. W.Va. N.D. W.Va. |
Lincoln n/a[16] n/a[17] |
August 3, 1861 June 11, 1864 July 1, 1901 |
June 10, 1864 July 1, 1901 March 15, 1905 |
n/a | 43 years, 224 days | 43 years, 224 days |
83 | Jacob Mishler | E.D.N.Y. | Eisenhower | July 6, 1960 | April 30, 1980 | January 26, 2004 | 19 years, 299 days | 43 years, 204 days |
Junius Foy Guin Jr. | N.D. Ala. | Nixon | April 18, 1973 | February 3, 1989 | November 8, 2016 | 15 years, 291 days | 43 years, 204 days | |
85 | Johnson Jay Hayes | M.D.N.C. | Coolidge | April 6, 1927[18] | June 18, 1957 | October 22, 1970 | 30 years, 73 days | 43 years, 199 days |
86 | Gustave Diamond | W.D. Pa. | Carter | May 2, 1978 | January 31, 1994 | October 30, 2021 | 15 years, 274 days | 43 years, 181 days |
87 | Harold Baker | E.D. Ill. C.D. Ill. |
Carter n/a[21] |
September 23, 1978 March 31, 1979 |
March 31, 1979 October 4, 1994 |
January 2, 2022 |
16 years, 11 days | 43 years, 101 days |
88 | Rya W. Zobel | D. Mass. | Carter | March 23, 1979 | April 1, 2014 | Incumbent | 35 years, 9 days | 45 years, 152 days |
89 | Thomas Collier Platt Jr. | E.D.N.Y. | Nixon | March 8, 1974 | February 1, 2001 | March 4, 2017 | 26 years, 330 days | 42 years, 361 days |
90 | Joyce Hens Green | D.D.C. | Carter | May 11, 1979 | July 1, 1995 | Incumbent | 16 years, 51 days | 45 years, 103 days |
91 | Charles Andrew Muecke | D. Ariz. | L.B.J. | October 1, 1964 | November 30, 1984 | September 21, 2007 | 20 years, 60 days | 42 years, 355 days |
92 | Rabe Ferguson Marsh Jr. | W.D. Pa. | Truman | June 8, 1950 | January 31, 1977 | April 19, 1993 | 26 years, 237 days | 42 years, 315 days |
93 | Marvin Aspen | N.D. Ill. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | July 1, 2002 | Incumbent | 22 years, 342 days | 45 years, 29 days |
Orinda Dale Evans | N.D. Ga. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | December 31, 2008 | Incumbent | 29 years, 160 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
Sylvia H. Rambo | M.D. Pa. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | April 18, 2001 | Incumbent | 21 years, 268 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
Robert L. Vining Jr. | N.D. Ga. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | March 31, 1996 | Incumbent | 16 years, 251 days | 45 years, 29 days | |
97 | Myron L. Gordon | E.D. Wis. | L.B.J. | March 4, 1967 | February 12, 1983 | November 3, 2009 | 15 years, 345 days | 42 years, 244 days |
98 | Stewart Albert Newblatt | E.D. Mo. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | December 23, 1993 | Incumbent | 14 years, 88 days | 44 years, 331 days |
Howard F. Sachs | W.D. Mo. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | October 31, 1992 | Incumbent | 13 years, 35 days | 44 years, 331 days | |
100 | Arthur Jehu Stanley Jr. | D. Kan. | Eisenhower | July 7, 1958 | April 1, 1971 | January 27, 2001 | 12 years, 268 days | 42 years, 204 days |
101 | Alan Neil Bloch | W.D. Pa. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | April 12, 1997 | Incumbent | 17 years, 161 days | 44 years, 294 days |
Barbara Brandriff Crabb | W.D. Wis. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | March 24, 2010 | Incumbent | 30 years, 142 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
Frank Howell Seay | E.D. Okla. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | September 23, 2003 | Incumbent | 23 years, 325 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
Anne Elise Thompson | D.N.J. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | June 1, 2001 | Incumbent | 21 years, 211 days | 44 years, 294 days | |
105 | William Bertelsman | E.D. Ky. | Carter | November 27, 1979 | February 1, 2001 | Incumbent | 21 years, 66 days | 44 years, 269 days |
Dudley Hollingsworth Bowen Jr. | S.D. Ga. | Carter | November 27, 1979 | June 25, 2006 | Incumbent | 26 years, 210 days | 44 years, 269 days | |
107 | Paul Jones | N.D. Ohio | Harding | March 2, 1923 | August 4, 1965 | n/a | 42 years, 155 days | 42 years, 155 days |
108 | Terry J. Hatter Jr. | C.D. Cal. | Carter | December 20, 1979 | April 22, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 123 days | 44 years, 246 days |
109 | Avern Cohn | E.D. Mich. | Carter | September 26, 1979 | October 9, 1999 | February 4, 2022 | 20 years, 13 days | 42 years, 131 days |
110 | Walter Edward Hoffman | E.D. Va. | Eisenhower | July 15, 1954 | September 3, 1974 | November 21, 1996 | 20 years, 50 days | 42 years, 129 days |
111 | Benjamin C. Dawkins Sr. | W.D. La. | Coolidge | May 5, 1924 | May 17, 1953 | August 22, 1966 | 29 years, 12 days | 42 years, 109 days |
112 | Albert Sherman Christensen | D. Utah | Eisenhower | May 28, 1954 | August 17, 1971 | August 13, 1996 | 17 years, 81 days | 42 years, 77 days |
113 | Barbara Jacobs Rothstein | W.D. Wash. | Carter | February 20, 1980 | September 1, 2011 | Incumbent | 31 years, 193 days | 44 years, 184 days |
114 | William Earl Britt | E.D.N.C. | Carter | May 23, 1980 | December 7, 1997 | Incumbent | 17 years, 198 days | 44 years, 91 days |
Walter Herbert Rice | S.D. Ohio | Carter | May 23, 1980 | November 30, 2004 | Incumbent | 24 years, 191 days | 44 years, 91 days | |
116 | Edward Skottowe Northrop | D. Md. | Kennedy | September 5, 1961 | June 12, 1981 | August 12, 2003 | 19 years, 280 days | 41 years, 341 days |
117 | Richard Owen | S.D.N.Y. | Nixon | December 19, 1973 | September 30, 1989 | November 20, 2015 | 15 years, 285 days | 41 years, 336 days |
118 | Luther L. Bohanon | E.D. Okla. N.D. Okla. W.D. Okla. |
Kennedy | August 30, 1961 | August 2, 1974 | July 18, 2003 | 12 years, 337 days | 41 years, 322 days |
119 | Justin L. Quackenbush | E.D. Wash. | Carter | June 18, 1980 | June 27, 1995 | Incumbent | 15 years, 9 days | 44 years, 65 days |
120 | Thelton Henderson | N.D. Cal. | Carter | June 30, 1980 | November 28, 1998 | Incumbent | 18 years, 151 days | 44 years, 53 days |
121 | James Clinton Turk | W.D. Va. | Nixon | October 17, 1972 | November 1, 2002 | July 6, 2014 | 30 years, 15 days | 41 years, 262 days |
122 | Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. | M.D. Tenn. | Carter | August 11, 1978 | November 3, 1995 | March 18, 2020 | 17 years, 84 days | 41 years, 220 days |
123 | Myron Herbert Thompson | M.D. Ala. | Carter | September 29, 1980 | August 22, 2013 | Incumbent | 32 years, 327 days | 43 years, 328 days |
124 | Charles P. Kocoras | N.D. Ill. | Carter | September 30, 1980 | June 30, 2006 | Incumbent | 25 years, 273 days | 43 years, 327 days |
Consuelo Bland Marshall | C.D. Cal. | Carter | September 30, 1980 | October 24, 2005 | Incumbent | 25 years, 24 days | 43 years, 327 days | |
126 | James Thomas Foley | N.D.N.Y. | Truman | February 2, 1949 | June 30, 1980 | August 17, 1990 | 31 years, 149 days | 41 years, 196 days |
127 | Morris E. Lasker | S.D.N.Y. | L.B.J. | June 24, 1968 | October 3, 1983 | December 25, 2009 | 15 years, 101 days | 41 years, 184 days |
128 | Robert J. Kelleher | C.D. Cal. | Nixon | December 21, 1970 | March 5, 1983 | June 20, 2012 | 12 years, 74 days | 41 years, 182 days |
129 | John Feikens | E.D. Mich. E.D. Mich. |
Eisenhower Nixon |
October 13, 1960 December 1, 1970 |
September 27, 1961[25] March 1, 1986 |
May 15, 2011 |
16 years, 74 days | 41 years, 149 days |
130 | William J. Castagna | M.D. Fla. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | June 29, 1992 | December 18, 2020 | 12 years, 341 days | 41 years, 147 days |
131 | William Wayne Justice | E.D. Tex. | L.B.J. | June 7, 1968 | June 30, 1998 | October 13, 2009 | 30 years, 23 days | 41 years, 128 days |
132 | Charles Fremont Amidon | D.N.D. | Cleveland | August 31, 1896 | June 2, 1928 | December 26, 1937 | 31 years, 276 days | 41 years, 117 days |
133 | Richard Dean Rogers | D. Kans. | Ford | August 5, 1975 | January 1, 1989 | November 25, 2016 | 13 years, 149 days | 41 years, 112 days |
134 | Joe Oscar Eaton | S.D. Fla. | L.B.J. | June 12, 1967 | April 2, 1985 | September 28, 2008 | 17 years, 294 days | 41 years, 108 days |
135 | Tom Stagg | W.D. La. | Nixon | March 8, 1974 | February 29, 1992 | June 23, 2015 | 17 years, 358 days | 41 years, 107 days |
136 | Richard Johnson Putnam | W.D. La. | Kennedy | September 18, 1961 | December 19, 1975 | December 16, 2002 | 14 years, 92 days | 41 years, 89 days |
137 | Edward Matthew Curran | D.D.C. | Truman | October 16, 1946[26] | April 2, 1971 | January 10, 1988 | 24 years, 168 days | 41 years, 86 days |
138 | Allen Burroughs Hannay | S.D. Tex. | F.D.R. | August 12, 1942 | August 6, 1975 | October 22, 1983 | 32 years, 359 days | 41 years, 71 days |
139 | Elijah Paine | D. Vt. | J. Adams | February 25, 1801 | April 1, 1842 | n/a | 41 years, 35 days | 41 years, 35 days |
140 | William Bondy | S.D.N.Y. | Harding | March 2, 1923 | May 1, 1956 | March 30, 1964 | 33 years, 60 days | 41 years, 28 days |
141 | Ellen Bree Burns | D. Conn. | Carter | May 18, 1978 | September 1, 1992 | June 3, 2019 | 14 years, 106 days | 41 years, 16 days |
142 | Juan Pérez-Giménez | D.P.R. | Carter | December 6, 1979 | March 28, 2006 | December 10, 2020 | 26 years, 112 days | 41 years, 4 days |
143 | Robert W. Sweet | S.D.N.Y. | Carter | April 28, 1978 | March 1, 1991 | March 24, 2019 | 12 years, 307 days | 40 years, 330 days |
144 | Joseph Jefferson Fisher | E.D. Tex. | Eisenhower | September 10, 1959 | January 30, 1984 | June 19, 2000 | 24 years, 142 days | 40 years, 283 days |
145 | Malcolm Muir | M.D. Pa. | Nixon | October 14, 1970 | August 31, 1984 | July 22, 2011 | 13 years, 322 days | 40 years, 281 days |
146 | William Charles Lee | N.D. Ind. | Reagan | July 28, 1981 | February 3, 2003 | Incumbent | 21 years, 190 days | 43 years, 25 days |
147 | Edward Roscoe Meek | N.D. Tex. | McKinley | July 13, 1898 | December 31, 1935 | April 10, 1939 | 37 years, 171 days | 40 years, 271 days |
148 | Ronald Davies | D.N.D. | Eisenhower | July 27, 1955 | August 27, 1971 | April 18, 1996 | 16 years, 31 days | 40 years, 266 days |
149 | Carmen Consuelo Cerezo | D.P.R. | Carter | June 30, 1980 | February 28, 2021 | n/a | 40 years, 243 days | 40 years, 243 days |
150 | John C. Coughenour | W.D. Wash. | Reagan | September 28, 1981 | July 26, 2006 | Incumbent | 24 years, 301 days | 42 years, 329 days |
Henry Rupert Wilhoit Jr. | E.D. Ky. | Reagan | September 28, 1981 | December 31, 2000 | Incumbent | 19 years, 94 days | 42 years, 329 days | |
152 | William Hoeveler | S.D. Fla. | Carter | April 26, 1977 | January 31, 1991 | November 18, 2017 | 13 years, 280 days | 40 years, 206 days |
153 | Hayden Wilson Head Jr. | S.D. Tex. | Reagan | October 26, 1981 | November 13, 2009 | Incumbent | 28 years, 18 days | 42 years, 301 days |
James Robertson Nowlin | W.D. Tex. | Reagan | October 26, 1981 | May 31, 2003 | Incumbent | 21 years, 217 days | 42 years, 301 days | |
155 | William Schwarzer | N.D. Cal. | Ford | July 23, 1976 | April 30, 1991 | January 28, 2017 | 14 years, 281 days | 40 years, 189 days |
156 | Robert A. Grant | N.D. Ind. | Eisenhower | August 26, 1957 | December 1, 1972 | March 2, 1998 | 15 years, 97 days | 40 years, 188 days |
157 | Paul A. Magnuson | D. Minn. | Reagan | October 29, 1981 | February 9, 2002 | Incumbent | 21 years, 97 days | 42 years, 298 days |
158 | Lee Roy West | W.D. Okla. | Carter | November 2, 1979 | November 26, 1994 | April 24, 2020 | 15 years, 24 days | 40 years, 174 days |
159 | John Bailey Jones | D.S.D. | Reagan | November 18, 1981 | January 1, 1995 | Incumbent | 13 years, 44 days | 42 years, 278 days |
160 | Ogden Hoffman Jr. | N.D. Cal. S.D. Cal. D. Cal. N.D. Cal. |
Fillmore n/a[29] n/a[30] n/a[31] |
February 27, 1851 August 31, 1852 July 23, 1866 August 5, 1886 |
July 23, 1866 January 18, 1854 August 5, 1886 August 9, 1891 |
n/a | 40 years, 163 days | 40 years, 163 days |
161 | James William Locke | S.D. Fla. | Grant | February 1, 1872 | July 4, 1912 | n/a | 40 years, 154 days | 40 years, 154 days |
162 | Robert G. Doumar | E.D. Va. | Reagan | December 3, 1981 | April 30, 1996 | Incumbent | 14 years, 149 days | 42 years, 263 days |
163 | Sam A. Crow | D. Kan. | Reagan | December 10, 1981 | November 15, 1996 | Incumbent | 14 years, 341 days | 42 years, 256 days |
I. Leo Glasser | E.D.N.Y. | Reagan | December 10, 1981 | July 1, 1993 | Incumbent | 11 years, 203 days | 42 years, 256 days | |
165 | John Davis | D. Mass. | J. Adams | February 20, 1801 | July 10, 1841 | n/a | 40 years, 140 days | 40 years, 140 days |
166 | David Lynn Russell | E.D. Okla. N.D. Okla. W.D. Okla. |
Reagan | December 17, 1981 December 17, 1981 December 17, 1981 |
December 1, 1990 December 1, 1990 July 7, 2013 |
Incumbent |
31 years, 202 days | 42 years, 249 days |
167 | Charles Guy Briggle | S.D. Ill. | Hoover | January 25, 1932 | August 1, 1958 | June 6, 1972 | 26 years, 188 days | 40 years, 133 days |
168 | Samuel Rossiter Betts | S.D.N.Y. | J. Q. Adams | December 21, 1826 | April 30, 1867 | n/a | 40 years, 130 days | 40 years, 130 days |
169 | Howard Boyd Turrentine | S.D. Cal. | Nixon | April 24, 1970 | January 22, 1984 | August 20, 2010 | 13 years, 273 days | 40 years, 118 days |
170 | John Pitman | D.R.I. | Monroe | August 4, 1824 | November 17, 1864 | n/a | 40 years, 105 days | 40 years, 105 days |
171 | William B. Bryant | D.D.C. | L.B.J. | August 11, 1965 | January 31, 1982 | November 13, 2005 | 16 years, 173 days | 40 years, 94 days |
172 | James L. Foreman | E.D. Ill. S.D. Ill. |
Nixon n/a[33] |
March 7, 1972 March 31, 1979 |
March 31, 1979 June 1, 1992 |
June 3, 2012 |
20 years, 86 days | 40 years, 88 days |
173 | James Tyne Moody | N.D. Ind. | Reagan | February 9, 1982 | June 17, 2003 | Incumbent | 21 years, 128 days | 42 years, 195 days |
174 | Earl R. Larson | D. Minn. | Kennedy | August 10, 1961 | June 30, 1977 | October 31, 2001 | 15 years, 324 days | 40 years, 82 days |
175 | Warren William Eginton | D. Conn. | Carter | July 24, 1979 | August 1, 1992 | October 7, 2019 | 13 years, 8 days | 40 years, 75 days |
176 | Elizabeth A. Kovachevich | M.D. Fla. | Reagan | March 9, 1982 | December 14, 2018 | Incumbent | 36 years, 280 days | 42 years, 166 days |
177 | James A. Redden | D. Or. | Carter | February 20, 1980 | March 13, 1995 | March 31, 2020 | 15 years, 21 days | 40 years, 40 days |
178 | William Thomas Hart | N.D. Ill. | Reagan | April 21, 1982 | June 1, 1996 | Incumbent | 14 years, 41 days | 42 years, 123 days |
Sources
See also
References
- General
- "Judges of the United States Courts". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Federal Judicial Center. Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
- Specific
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 6, 1802, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 26, 1802, and received commission on January 26, 1802.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 15, 1963, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 15, 1963, and received commission on March 27, 1963.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 3, 1906, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 11, 1906, and received commission on December 11, 1906.
- ^ Elevated to Chief Justice by Jefferson on February 24, 1806. Because of the unique structure of the United States Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, Thomas Jefferson's elevation of William Cranch to Chief Justice of the Court is considered a separate appointment.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 15, 1962, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 16, 1962, and received commission on March 17, 1962.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Reassigned to the newly created United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on October 1, 1981 by operation of law.
- ^ a b On September 18, 1966, Crocker was reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 30, 1952, confirmed by the United States Senate on April 7, 1952, and received commission on April 8, 1952.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 5, 1823, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 9, 1823, and received commission on December 9, 1823.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 11, 1954, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 9, 1954, and received commission on February 10, 1954.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 16, 1931, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 3, 1932, and received commission on February 10, 1932.
- ^ a b Harper received three consecutive recess appointments to the same court; his formal nomination was rejected by the United States Senate the first two times, but after the third recess appointment, Harper was confirmed by the Senate.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 12, 1956, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 28, 1956, and received commission on March 29, 1956.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 15, 1962, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 7, 1962, and received commission on February 17, 1962.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 12, 1956, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 31, 1956, and received commission on February 1, 1956.
- ^ a b Early in the course of the American Civil War, the western portion of Virginia rejected Virginia's secession from the United States, and itself seceded from Virginia. This area largely coincided with the existing Western District of Virginia. The portion of Virginia remaining loyal to the Union became the state of West Virginia, which was admitted as a state on June 20, 1863. On June 11, 1864, by 13 Stat. 124, the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia became the United States District Court for the District of West Virginia, and those parts of the Western District that were not part of West Virginia were combined with what had previously been the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to again form a single United States District Court for the District of Virginia. John Jay Jackson, who had been appointed to the Western District of Virginia, was reassigned by operation of law to the newly formed District of West Virginia. At the same time, John Curtiss Underwood, who had been appointed to the Eastern District of Virginia, was reassigned by operation of law to the newly formed District of Virginia. On February 3, 1871, the District of Virginia was again subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts, and Underwood was reassigned to the Eastern District, until his death.
- ^ a b On July 1, 1901, the District of West Virginia was subdivided into the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia and the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia; Jackson was reassigned to the Northern District, until his retirement.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 6, 1927, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 9, 1928, and received commission on January 9, 1928.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 5, 1950, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 8, 1950, and received commission on February 10, 1950.
- ^ a b Reassigned by operation of law to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on October 1, 1982.
- ^ a b On March 31, 1979, the Eastern District and Southern District of Illinois were rearranged into the Southern District and a new United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois; Baker was reassigned by operation of law to the Central District, and was there for the remainder of his service.
- ^ a b Reassigned by operation of law to the United States Court of International Trade on November 1, 1980.
- ^ Elevated to Chief Justice by Coolidge on April 18, 1928. Because of the unique structure of the United States Court of Claims, Calvin Coolidge's elevation of Fenton Booth to Chief Justice of the Court is considered a separate appointment.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 5, 1950, confirmed by the United States Senate on April 4, 1950, and received commission on April 7, 1950.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 10, 1961; Service terminated on September 27, 1961, after nomination was not confirmed by the Senate.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 8, 1947, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 3, 1947, and received commission on February 5, 1947.
- ^ Elevated to Chief Justice by Cleveland on November 23, 1896. Because of the unique structure of the United States Court of Claims, Grover Cleveland's elevation of Charles Nott to Chief Justice of the Court is considered a separate appointment.
- ^ a b Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 14, 1957, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 19, 1957, and received commission on March 21, 1957.
- ^ a b Assigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on August 31, 1852.
- ^ a b Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the District of California on July 23, 1866.
- ^ a b Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on August 5, 1886.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 13, 1949, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 31, 1949, and received commission on February 2, 1949.
- ^ a b Reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois on March 31, 1979.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 5, 1950, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 8, 1950, and received commission on March 9, 1950.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 6, 1927, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 18, 1928, and received commission on January 18, 1928.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 15, 1931, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 12, 1932, and received commission on January 19, 1932.