Judicial Selection Snapshot

AFJ tracks the nominations made by the Obama administration and the status of each nominee in the Senate confirmation process. The data is updated regularly as nominees are announced or move through the confirmation process.

The following data includes two types of information: 1) statistics on federal court vacancies and President Obama's judicial nominees, and 2) charts on the pace of judicial nominations, the pace of judicial confirmations, and the percentage of nominees confirmed.

124 Current and Future Vacancies

102 Current Federal Court Vacancies:

19 Court of Appeals ("CCA") Vacancies

84 District Court ("DCT") Vacancies

0 Supreme Court ("SCT") Vacancies

22 Future Federal Court Vacancies ("future" vacancies are those for which a judge has notified the president that he/she will leave active service on a specified, upcoming date):

4 CCA Vacancies

17 DCT Vacancies

31 Nominees Pending (Nominee last names in parentheses):

Breakdown by Court:

9 CCA: (Thompson, Chin, Vanaskie, Diaz, Wynn, Stranch, Liu, Chatigny, Matheson)

22 DCT: (Jackson, Freudenthal, Marshall, Pearson, Gergel, Childs, Navarro, Black, Butler, Chen, Degiulio, Magnus-Stinson, Pratt, Fleissig, Koh, Tucker, Treadwell, Goldsmith, Foote, Coleman, Feinerman, Martinez)

Breakdown by Status:

14 Nominees Pending in the Judiciary Committee:

3 CCA: (Liu, Chatigny, Matheson)

11 DCT: (Jackson, Gergel, Childs, Magnus-Stinson, Tucker, Treadwell, Goldsmith, Foote, Coleman, Feinerman, Martinez)

17 Pending on the Senate Floor:

6 CCA: (Stranch, Vanaskie, Chin, Thompson, Diaz, Winn)

11 DCT: (Conley, Freudenthal, Marshall, Pearson, Black, Butler, Chen, Navarro, Degiulio, Pratt, Fleissig, Koh)

18 Confirmations

Breakdown by Court:

1 SCT: (Sotomayor)

6 CCA: (Lynch, Davis, Hamilton, Martin, Greenaway, Keenan)

11 DCT: (Viken, Lange, Berger, Honeywell, Reiss, Kallon, Nguyen, Gee, Seeborg, Peterson, Conley)

last updated 03/05/2010

Available for download is a PDF with the following data:

statistics on federal court vacancies and President Obama's judicial nominees, and
charts comparing the pace of judicial nominations, confirmations, and percentage of each president's nominees confirmed in the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

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