Judicial Selection Snapshot

Last updated: 08/23/2010

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.

116 Total Vacancies:

21 Total Court of Appeals ("CCA") Vacancies

95 Total District Court ("DCT") Vacancies

101 Current Federal Court Vacancies:

19 CCA Vacancies

82 DCT Vacancies

15 Future 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):

2 CCA Vacancies

13 DCT Vacancies

40 Nominees Pending (Nominee last names in parentheses):

Breakdown by Court:

10 CCA: Diaz, Stranch, Matheson, Lohier, O'Malley, Murguia, DuMont, Carney, Graves, Nourse

30 DCT:  Pearson, Martinez, Eagles, Mueller, Totenberg, Gibney, Kobayashi, Nelson, Hollander, Bredar, Chang, Casper, Reeves, Holmes, Battaglia, Davilla, Wilkins, Shadid, Cogburn, Myerscough, A. Jackson, Boasberg, Hernandez, Howell, Jones, Saldana, Simon, Day, Williams, Marmolejo

Breakdown by Status:

  23 Nominees Pending in the Judiciary Committee:

5 CCA:  O'Malley, Murguia, DuMont, Carney, Graves

18 DCT:  Totenberg, Holmes, Battaglia, Davilla, Wilkins, Shadid, Cogburn, Myerscough, A.Jackson, Boasberg, Hernandez, Howell, Jones, Saldana, Simon, Day, Williams, Marmolejo

17 Pending on the Senate Floor:

5 CCA:  Stranch, Diaz, Lohier, Matheson, Murguia

12 DCT:  Pearson, Martinez, Mueller, Eagles, Gibney, Nelson, Hollander, Bredar, Kobayashi, Chang, Casper, Reeves

5 Nominations Returned to the President

Breakdown by Court:

2 CCA: Liu, Chatigny

3 DCT: Butler, McConnell, Chen

42 Confirmations

Breakdown by Court:

2 SCT: Sotomayor, Kagan

10 CCA: Lynch, Davis, Hamilton, Martin, Greenaway, Keenan, Thompson, Chin, Vanaskie, Wynn

30 DCT: Viken, Lange, Berger, Honeywell, Reiss, Kallon, Nguyen, Gee, Seeborg, Peterson, Conley, Freudenthal, Marshall, Navarro, Black, DeGiulio, Flessig, Koh, Magnus-Stinson, Pratt, Jackson, Foote, Tucker, Treadwell, Goldsmith, Feinerman, ColemanGergel, Childs, Stark

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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