Introduction

Understanding the courts starts with understanding who sits on them. Judicial Hub provides clear, up-to-date data on judicial appointments across the federal and state judiciaries, along with articles and projects on the courts and the people who shape them. Our approach is nonpartisan and independent.

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Composition of the Federal Courts
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Composition of the Federal Courts

See which president appointed the judges of every federal circuit and district court, how the benches lean, and where the vacancies are.



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Data on Judicial Hub is compiled by hand from several sources, including the Federal Judicial Center and the United States Courts. Among other things, Judicial Hub records which president appointed each judge and that president's party. Neither indicates how a judge will rule in a particular case or what a judge's ideology is.

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