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Judicial Vacancy List for December 2016
Court | Incumbent | Vacancy Reason | Vacancy Date | Nominee | Nomination Date |
01 - MA | Woodlock,Douglas P. | Senior | 06/01/2015 | Bernstein,Inga S. | 07/30/2015 |
01 - PR | Fuste,Jose Antonio | Retired | 06/01/2016 | | |
01 - RI | Lisi,Mary M. | Senior | 10/01/2015 | McElroy,Mary Susan | 09/08/2015 |
02 - CCA | Lynch,Gerard E. | Senior | 09/05/2016 | | |
02 - CCA | Wesley,Richard C. | Senior | 08/01/2016 | | |
02 - NY-E | Amon,Carol Bagley | Senior | 11/30/2016 | | |
02 - NY-E | Feuerstein,Sandra J. | Senior | 01/21/2015 | Brown,Gary Richard | 07/30/2015 |
02 - NY-E | Gleeson,John | Resigned | 03/09/2016 | Gujarati,Diane | 09/13/2016 |
02 - NY-N | Sharpe,Gary L. | Senior | 01/01/2016 | | |
02 - NY-S | Crotty,Paul A. | Senior | 08/01/2015 | | |
02 - NY-W | Skretny,William M. | Senior | 03/08/2015 | Sweet,Kathleen Marie | 03/15/2016 |
03 - CCA | Fuentes,Julio M. | Senior | 07/18/2016 | | |
03 - CCA | Rendell,Marjorie O. | Senior | 07/01/2015 | Haywood,Rebecca Ross | 03/15/2016 |
03 - NJ | Martini,William J. | Senior | 02/10/2015 | | |
03 - NJ | Hochberg,Faith S. | Retired | 03/06/2015 | Neals,Julien Xavier | 02/26/2015 |
03 - PA-E | Restrepo,Luis Felipe | Elevated | 01/11/2016 | | |
03 - PA-E | McLaughlin,Mary A. | Senior | 11/18/2013 | Younge,John Milton | 07/30/2015 |
03 - PA-W | Gibson,Kim R. | Senior | 06/03/2016 | | |
03 - PA-W | McLaughlin,Sean J. | Resigned | 08/16/2013 | Baxter,Susan Paradise | 07/30/2015 |
03 - PA-W | Lancaster,Gary L. | Deceased | 04/24/2013 | Colville,Robert John | 07/30/2015 |
03 - PA-W | McVerry,Terrence F. | Senior | 09/30/2013 | Horan,Marilyn Jean | 07/30/2015 |
04 - MD | Quarles Jr.,William D. | Senior | 02/01/2016 | Gallagher,Stephanie Agli | 09/08/2015 |
04 - NC-E | Howard,Malcolm J. | Senior | 12/31/2005 | Timmons-Goodson,Patricia Ann | 04/28/2016 |
04 - SC | Currie,Cameron McGowan | Senior | 10/03/2013 | Beatty,Donald W. | 02/25/2016 |
04 - SC | Anderson Jr.,Joseph F. | Senior | 11/16/2014 | Coggins Jr.,Donald C. | 02/25/2016 |
05 - CCA | Garza,Emilio M. | Senior | 08/01/2012 | | |
05 - CCA | King,Carolyn Dineen | Senior | 12/31/2013 | | |
05 - LA-E | Berrigan,Helen G. | Senior | 08/23/2016 | | |
05 - LA-E | Lemelle,Ivan L. | Senior | 06/29/2015 | Kelly III,Claude J. | 02/04/2016 |
05 - LA-W | James,Robert G. | Senior | 05/31/2016 | | |
05 - LA-W | Haik,Richard T. | Senior | 03/06/2015 | Finley,Stephanie A. | 02/04/2016 |
05 - TX-E | Davis,Leonard E. | Retired | 05/15/2015 | | |
05 - TX-E | Schneider,Michael H. | Senior | 01/07/2016 | | |
05 - TX-E | Schell,Richard A. | Senior | 03/10/2015 | Scholer,Karen Gren | 03/15/2016 |
05 - TX-N | Robinson,Mary Lou | Senior | 02/03/2016 | | |
05 - TX-N | Cummings,Samuel Ray | Senior | 12/31/2014 | Frost,E. Scott | 03/15/2016 |
05 - TX-N | Solis,Jorge A. | Retired | 05/01/2016 | Hendrix,James Wesley | 03/15/2016 |
05 - TX-N | Means,Terry | Senior | 07/03/2013 | Ramirez,Irma Carrillo | 03/15/2016 |
05 - TX-S | Jack,Janis Graham | Senior | 06/01/2011 | | |
05 - TX-S | Costa,Gregg Jeffrey | Elevated | 05/20/2014 | | |
05 - TX-W | Smith Jr.,Walter S. | Retired | 09/14/2016 | | |
05 - TX-W | Junell,Robert A. | Senior | 02/13/2015 | Counts III,Walter David | 03/15/2016 |
06 - CCA | Martin Jr.,Boyce F. | Retired | 08/16/2013 | Hughes,Lisabeth Tabor | 03/17/2016 |
06 - KY-E | Coffman,Jennifer B. | Retired | 01/08/2013 | | |
06 - KY-W | Heyburn II,John G. | Senior | 04/01/2014 | | |
06 - MI-E | Rosen,Gerald E. | Senior | 10/26/2016 | | |
06 - OH-S | Frost,Gregory L. | Retired | 05/02/2016 | | |
06 - TN-W | Mays Jr.,Samuel H. | Senior | 07/01/2015 | Stanton III,Edward L. | 05/21/2015 |
07 - CCA | Evans,Terence T. | Senior | 01/07/2010 | Schott,Donald K. | 01/12/2016 |
07 - CCA | Tinder,John Daniel | Senior | 02/18/2015 | Selby,Myra C. | 01/12/2016 |
07 - IL-N | Zagel,James B. | Senior | 10/21/2016 | | |
07 - IN-N | Miller Jr.,Robert L. | Senior | 01/11/2016 | | |
07 - IN-S | Barker,Sarah Evans | Senior | 06/30/2014 | Ong,Winfield D. | 01/12/2016 |
07 - WI-E | Randa,Rudolph T. | Senior | 02/05/2016 | | |
08 - CCA | Bye,Kermit Edward | Senior | 04/22/2015 | Puhl,Jennifer Kelmetsrud | 01/28/2016 |
08 - MN | Montgomery,Ann D. | Senior | 05/31/2016 | | |
08 - MN | Frank,Donovan W. | Senior | 10/31/2016 | | |
09 - AK | Beistline,Ralph R. | Senior | 12/31/2015 | | |
09 - AZ | Wake,Neil Vincent | Senior | 07/05/2016 | | |
09 - AZ | Bolton,Susan R. | Senior | 09/01/2016 | | |
09 - CA-C | Snyder,Christina A. | Senior | 11/23/2016 | | |
09 - CA-C | Morrow,Margaret M. | Senior | 10/29/2015 | | |
09 - CA-C | Pregerson,Dean D. | Senior | 01/28/2016 | Abrams,Paul Lewis | 12/16/2015 |
09 - CA-C | Collins,Audrey B. | Retired | 08/01/2014 | Young,Mark A. | 07/16/2015 |
09 - CA-S | Huff,Marilyn L. | Senior | 09/30/2016 | | |
09 - CCA | Silverman,Barry G. | Senior | 10/11/2016 | | |
09 - CCA | Pregerson,Harry | Senior | 12/11/2015 | Koh,Lucy Haeran | 02/25/2016 |
09 - HI | Mollway,Susan Oki | Senior | 11/06/2015 | Connors,Clare Elizabeth | 09/08/2015 |
09 - ID | Lodge,Edward J. | Senior | 07/03/2015 | Nye,David C. | 04/06/2016 |
09 - NV | Jones,Robert Clive | Senior | 02/01/2016 | Traum,Anne Rachel | 04/28/2016 |
09 - WA-W | Lasnik,Robert S. | Senior | 01/27/2016 | Andrus,Beth M. | 04/14/2016 |
09 - WA-W | Robart,James L. | Senior | 06/28/2016 | Diaz,J. Michael | 04/14/2016 |
09 - WA-W | Pechman,Marsha J. | Senior | 02/06/2016 | O'Sullivan,Kathleen M. | 04/14/2016 |
10 - CO | Blackburn,Robert E. | Senior | 04/12/2016 | Rodriguez,Regina M. | 04/28/2016 |
10 - KS | Vratil,Kathryn H. | Senior | 04/22/2014 | Campbell,Terrence J. | 01/28/2016 |
10 - OK-W | Cauthron,Robin J. | Senior | 07/14/2015 | | |
10 - OK-W | Russell,David L. | Senior | 07/07/2013 | Mitchell,Suzanne | 12/16/2015 |
10 - OK-W | Friot,Stephen P. | Senior | 12/01/2014 | Palk,Scott L. | 12/16/2015 |
10 - UT | Stewart,Brian T. | Senior | 09/01/2014 | Russell,Ronald G. | 12/16/2015 |
11 - AL-M | Fuller,Mark E. | Resigned | 08/01/2015 | | |
11 - AL-M | Thompson,Myron H. | Senior | 08/22/2013 | | |
11 - AL-N | Smith Jr.,C. Lynwood | Senior | 08/31/2013 | | |
11 - AL-N | Blackburn,Sharon Lovelace | Senior | 05/08/2015 | | |
11 - AL-S | Granade,Callie V.S. | Senior | 03/07/2016 | | |
11 - CCA | Dubina,Joel F. | Senior | 10/26/2013 | Kallon,Abdul K. | 02/11/2016 |
11 - FL-M | Steele,John E. | Senior | 06/03/2015 | Barksdale,Patricia D. | 04/28/2016 |
11 - FL-M | Conway,Anne C. | Senior | 08/01/2015 | Jung,William F. | 04/28/2016 |
11 - FL-N | Hinkle,Robert L. | Senior | 11/07/2016 | | |
11 - FL-N | Smoak,Richard | Senior | 12/31/2015 | Lammens,Philip R. | 04/28/2016 |
11 - FL-S | Cohn,James I. | Senior | 08/05/2016 | | |
11 - FL-S | Rosenbaum,Robin S. | Elevated | 05/12/2014 | Flores,Mary Barzee | 02/26/2015 |
11 - GA-M | Royal,Charles Ashley | Senior | 09/01/2016 | | |
11 - GA-N | Carnes,Julie E. | Elevated | 07/21/2014 | Lopez,Dax Eric | 07/30/2015 |
CL | Block,Lawrence J. | Retired | 01/08/2016 | | |
CL | Damich,Edward J. | Senior | 10/21/2013 | Bonilla,Armando Omar | 01/07/2015 |
CL | Firestone,Nancy B. | Senior | 10/21/2013 | Firestone,Nancy B. | 01/07/2015 |
CL | Bush,Lynn J. | Senior | 10/21/2013 | Halkowski,Thomas L. | 01/07/2015 |
CL | Hewitt,Emily C. | Retired | 10/21/2013 | McCarthy,Patricia M. | 01/07/2015 |
CL | Miller,George W. | Retired | 08/06/2013 | Somers,Jeri Kaylene | 01/07/2015 |
DC - DC | Roberts,Richard W. | Senior | 03/16/2016 | Edelman,Todd E. | 04/28/2016 |
DC - DC | Walton,Reggie B. | Senior | 12/31/2015 | Pan,Florence Y. | 04/28/2016 |
DC - DC | Collyer,Rosemary M. | Senior | 05/18/2016 | Qureshi,Abid Riaz | 09/06/2016 |
IT | Pogue,Donald C. | Senior | 07/01/2014 | Davidson,Jeanne E. | 01/07/2015 |
IT | Eaton,Richard K. | Senior | 08/22/2014 | Drake,Elizabeth J. | 07/30/2015 |
SC | Scalia,Antonin | Deceased | 02/13/2016 | Garland,Merrick B. | 03/16/2016 |