Hogan Named to Executive Committee

Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has appointed Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan (D.D.C.) to the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference. Hogan succeeds Judge Juan Torruella, who stepped down as chief judge of the 1st Circuit in June.

Hogan, who was appointed to the District Court for the District of Columbia in 1982, was chair of the Conference Committee on Intercircuit Assignments from 1990 to 1994. He served on the Committee on the Administration of the Magistrates System from 1987 to 1991, and on the Ad Hoc Committee on Asbestos Litigation from 1990 to 1991. Hogan was a member of the Board of the Federal Judicial Center from 1996 to 2000.

The Executive Committee is the senior executive arm of the Judicial Conference, acting on behalf of the Conference between regular sessions on any matter requiring emergency action. Among its duties the Committee also prepares the discussion and consent calendars for Conference meetings; handles matters of committee jurisdiction; makes recommendations to the Conference and its committees on the needs of the Judiciary that should be addressed or planned for; and works to fashion spending plans for congressionally approved appropriations.

The current members of the Executive Committee are the Committee chair Chief Judge Charles H. Haden, II (S. D. W.Va.), Chief Judge Edward R. Becker (3rd Cir.), Chief Judge Charles R. Butler, Jr. (S. D. Ala.), Chief Judge Carolyn Dineen King (5th Cir.), Chief Judge Boyce F. Martin, Jr. (6th Cir.), Chief Judge James M. Rosenbaum (D. Minn.), and ex-officio member Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director of the Administrative Office.