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29 unusual facts about United States federal judge


1935 Pulitzer Prize

The Sacramento Bee for its campaign against political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal judges in Nevada.

Bruce Marks

He appeared to lose a 1993 election for the 2nd senatorial district for the Pennsylvania Senate, but a federal judge declared him the winner of that election after finding that the campaign of William G. Stinson had engaged in election fraud.

Cathy Cox

A Senior U.S. District Judge upheld earlier federal court decisions in the case, finding against Cox, and deciding that private entities have a right under the NVRA to engage in organized voter registration activity in Georgia at times and locations of their choosing, without the presence or permission of state or local election officials.

Charles E. Wiggins

Charles Edward Wiggins (December 3, 1927 - March 2, 2000) was a U.S. Representative from California, and later a United States federal judge.

Charles Parlange

Charles Parlange (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907) was a Louisiana state senator, United States Attorney, Louisiana Lieutenant Governor, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and United States federal judge.

DuBose Ausley

He served on the United States Circuit Judge Nominating Commission.

East Texas Baptist University

Sam B. Hall, member of the United States House of Representatives (1976–85) and United States District Judge (1985-94).

Elmer Jacob Schnackenberg

Elmer Jacob Schnackenberg (August 22, 1889 – September 15, 1968) was a United States federal judge.

George Gardner Fagg

George Gardner Fagg (born April 30, 1934) is a senior United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

George P. Wanty

George P. Wanty (March 12, 1856 – July 9, 1906) was a United States federal judge.

Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr.

(born 1954) is a Pennsylvania attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Rummel

Both acts were rendered unconstitutional by Judge J. Skelly Wright, a federal judge from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, in the case Earl Benjamin Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board on February 1956.

Judith Ellen Levy

Judith Ellen Levy (born 1958) is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Larry R. Hicks

Larry R. Hicks (born 1943) is a Senior United States District Judge.

Marilyn L. Huff

Marilyn L. Huff (born March 6, 1951) is a United States federal judge.

Matthew M. Joyce

Matthew M. Joyce (April 29, 1877 – January 12, 1956) was a United States federal judge.

Michael P. Boggs

Michael P. Boggs is a Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Naomi Mezey

She served as a law clerk for Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and as a legislative aide to Senator Alan Cranston.

Patti Anne Lodge

She is married to Edward Lodge, a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Idaho and is a mother to three children, Mary-Jeanne, Edward, and Anne-Marie.

Pedro A. Delgado Hernández

Pedro Alberto Delgado Hernández (born 1956) is a Puerto Rico attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

Philip Barton Key

Philip Barton Key (April 12, 1757 – July 28, 1815) was a Representative from the third district of Maryland, and later a United States federal judge.

Roger L. Hunt

Roger L. Hunt (born 1942) is a Senior United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

Russell Evans Smith

Russell Evans Smith (November 16, 1908 – March 29, 1990) was a United States federal judge.

Sean Lee

Sean is also a grandson of Federal Judge Donald J. Lee of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Susan P. Watters

Susan Pamela Watters (born 1958) is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Montana.

Thomas Francis McAllister

Thomas Francis McAllister (March 4, 1896 – November 10, 1976) was a United States federal judge.

Trita Parsi

In September 2012, a U.S. federal judge John D. Bates threw out the libel suit against Daioleslam on the grounds that "NIAC and Parsi had failed to show evidence of actual malice, either that Daioeslam acted with knowledge the allegations he made were false or with reckless disregard about their accuracy."

Walter Henry Sanborn

Walter Henry Sanborn (October 19, 1845 – May 10, 1928) was a United States federal judge.

William Edwin Orr

William Edwin Orr (October 26, 1881 – October 7, 1965) was a United States federal judge.


Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.

(February 19, 1913 – September 6, 2001) was a United States federal judge, President John F. Kennedy's first appointee to the federal court

Charles Robert Wolle

Charles Robert Wolle (born 1935) is a former justice of the Iowa Supreme Court who currently serves as a senior federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Christopher Reid Cooper

Christopher “Casey” Reid Cooper (born 1966) is a Washington, D.C. attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Cynthia Ann Bashant

Cynthia Ann Bashant (born 1960) is a Judge of the San Diego Superior Court and a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Daniel D. Crabtree

Daniel D. Crabtree (born 1956) is a Kansas attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.

David Lat

In June 2004, Lat anonymously started the website Underneath Their Robes (UTR), a gossip blog about the federal judiciary, under the pseudonym Article III Groupie (also known as A3G).

Douglas L. Rayes

Douglas L. Rayes is a Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.

Gustave Diamond

Gustave Diamond (born 1928) is a Senior United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Indira Talwani

Indira Talwani is a Massachusetts attorney in private practice and a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

John B. Owens

John Byron Owens (born 1971) is a California attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

John M. Rogers

John Marshall Rogers (born June 26, 1948 in Rochester, New York) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Judgment in Berlin

Judgment in Berlin is a 1984 book by federal judge Herbert Jay Stern about a hijacking trial in the United States Court for Berlin in 1979, over which he presided.

Leigh Martin May

Leigh Martin May is a Georgia attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Mark Howard Cohen

Mark Howard Cohen is a Georgia attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Mary M. Schroeder

Mary M. Schroeder (born December 4, 1940) is a Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Max Rosenn

Max Rosenn (February 4, 1910 – February 7, 2006) was a United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970 to 2006.

Michelle T. Friedland

Michelle T. Friedland is a California attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

N. Randy Smith

Norman Randy Smith is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Nancy J. Rosenstengel

Nancy J. Rosenstengel (born 1968) is Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois and is currently a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the same court.

Parlange Plantation House

Together they had one son, also named Charles, who survived the Civil War to begin a distinguished career as a State Senator, United States District Attorney, Lieutenant Governor, federal judge, and finally justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Raymond P. Moore

Raymond Paul Moore (born 1953) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.

Richard F. Cebull

Richard Frank Cebull (born 1944, Billings, Montana) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana from 2001 to 2013.

Scot Hollonbeck

In late 1988, after he had graduated from the school, a federal judge ruled that school officials had violated his civil rights, as provided for in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, by not allowing him to argue his case.

Tanya S. Chutkan

Tanya S. Chutkan is a Washington, D.C. attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Theodore D. Chuang

Theodore David Chuang (born 1969) is Deputy General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Virginie de Ternant

Together they had one son, Charles (July 23, 1851 – February 4, 1907), who would enjoy a distinguished political career as a state senator, United States Attorney, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and United States federal judge.