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Judgeship Appointments by President
| President | Supreme
Court | Regional
Court of
Appeals | USCAFC1 | District
Courts | Court
of Int'l
Trade2 | TOTAL3 |
Roosevelt
(1933-45) | 9 | 52 | — | 136 | 7 | 204 |
Truman
(1945-52) | 4 | 27 | — | 102 | 4 | 137 |
Eisenhower
(1953-60) | 5 | 45 | — | 127 | 3 | 180 |
Kennedy
(1961-63) | 2 | 20 | — | 102 | 0 | 124 |
Johnson
(1963-68) | 2 | 41 | — | 125 | 8 | 176 |
Nixon
(1969-74) | 4 | 45 | — | 182 | 1 | 232 |
Ford
(1974-76) | 1 | 12 | — | 52 | 0 | 65 |
Carter
(1977-80) | 0 | 56 | — | 206 | 0 | 262 |
Reagan
(1981-88) | 3 | 78 | 5 | 292 | 6 | 384 |
Bush
(1989-92) | 2 | 37 | 5 | 149 | 1 | 194 |
Clinton
(1993-00) | 2 | 62 | 4 | 306 | 5 | 379 |
Bush
(2001-08) | 2 | 61 | 2 | 261 | 2 | 328 |
1 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (USCAFC) was established in 1982.
2 Originally was designated the U.S. Customs Court; became the U.S. Court of International Trade in 1980.
3This number represents the total number of appointments not judges. Several of these judges have been elevated. For example, President Reagan appointed Antonin Scalia to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1982 and also appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1986. President Bush appointed Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1990 and also to the Supreme Court in 1991.
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