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Gareth Hawkesworth

Gareth Hawkesworth is a Circuit Judge currently in the position of "Resident Judge" at Cambridge Crown Court.

Thomas J. Cuddy

Cuddy, who by February 1889 was operating a saloon, was sentenced to six months in jail by U.S. Circuit Judge E.M. Ross, who found him guilty of contempt of court for having spoken to a juror about a tax case pending in Ross's court; Cuddy had asked that the juror favor the defendant.


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Alan R. Schwartz

He was appointed Circuit Judge by Governor Reubin Askew on April 18, 1973 and served in that capacity until 1978.

Alexander S. Johnson

In October 1875, he was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant Circuit Judge of the Second U. S. Judicial Circuit.

Angela T. Quigless

She was appointed by Governor Bob Holden as the Circuit Judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit of the City of St. Louis, Missouri on January 3, 2003, previously serving as an Associate Circuit Judge since February 28, 1995.

Barron County, Wisconsin

The county had taken the name of Barron in the honor of Wisconsin lawyer and politician, Henry D. Barron, who served as Circuit Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit.

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Strom Thurmond (1902–2003), Edgefield (South Carolina) Town and County Attorney (1930–1938), Circuit Judge, Governor of South Carolina (1947–1951), United States Senator (1956–2003), Presidential Candidate (1948).

Custody battle for Anna Mae He

In May 2004 after a 10-day trial, Judge Robert L. Childers, a Tennessee circuit judge, terminated Hes' parental rights on grounds of willful abandonment, despite Hes' persistent effort to get custody back via Juvenile Court.

Deborah Servitto

Deborah A. Servitto, born February 17, 1956, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, was a Macomb County Circuit Judge.

Ellen Morphonios

Judge Ellen James Morphonios (September 30, 1929 – December 22, 2002) was a Dade County, Florida Circuit Judge, best-remembered for having prosecuted rock star Jim Morrison (The Doors) for allegedly exposing himself.

Google Book Search Settlement Agreement

On November 14, 2013 the case, Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 05-08136), was dismissed by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan.

Gottfried Reinhardt

Gottfried Reinhardt is the stepfather of the American circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt.

Howell W. Melton

He served as a circuit judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit of Florida from 1961 to 1977.

James S. Moody, Jr.

He was elected circuit judge of Florida's Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (Hillsborough County), serving from 1995 to 2000.

Joel T. Lazarus

Lazarus was appointed a circuit judge for Broward County, Florida in 1993 by governor Lawton Chiles.

Jonathan R. Steinberg

He clerked at the Law Firm of Steinberg, Richman, Greenstein and Price in Philadelphia and served as a Research Assistant at the American Law Institute, prior to serving as a Law Clerk for then Circuit Judge Warren E. Burger on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1963-64.

Joseph T. Copeland

Naturally, Copeland was elected Circuit Judge and concurrently became the 14th Michigan Supreme Court Justice.

M. Blane Michael

As Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III noted in a 2005 speech published in the Northwestern University Law Review, Michael and Wilkinson jog together in their spare time when they are in Richmond, Virginia to hear oral arguments, even though they have very different judicial perspectives.

Maurice M. Paul

He was a circuit judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of Florida from 1973 to 1982.

Milo Radulovich

Among the readers was a former classmate of Radulovich, attorney Kenneth Sanborn (who went on to become a State Representative and Macomb County Circuit Judge in Michigan).

Princeton Law School

Sonia Sotomayor, then Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Princeton University.

Randall Ray Rader

While on the Federal Circuit, Judge Rader has served as a law professor, having taught patent law and advanced intellectual property courses at the University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC.

Roderick Evans

Evans became a circuit judge in 1992, serving as resident judge for the Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court from 1994 to 1998 and resident judge for the Swansea Crown Court from 1998 to 1999.

Roger E. Combs

Combs is a former Associate Circuit Judge in Missouri’s 4th Judicial Circuit.

Stephan P. Mickle

Mickle was a judge on the Alachua County Court from 1979 to 1984 and was a circuit judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit from 1984 to 1992.

W. Wirt Courtney

From 1933 to 1939, he served as circuit judge and chancellor of the Seventeenth judicial circuit of Tennessee.