Weekly Judicial Update - April 29, 2024

Judicial Update reports each week on activity during the previous week in new federal court vacancies, court nominations and confirmations of Article III (lifetime tenure) judges. For a masterlist of confirmations and judicial vacancies and nominees to fill these vacancies plus judicial nominee biographies, see Federal Section of NationsCourts.com.

The following table shows vacancies and nominations pending as of Friday, April 26, 2024 (the table includes future vacancies for which nominees have been named; see vacancies and nominations).

 
New Vacancies:
During the previous week (April 22 - April 26), there were no new vacancies in the appellate or district courts.

For masterlist of court vacancies in the federal appellate and district courts and nominations to fill these vacancies, click here. 

New Nominees:
During the previous week, there were no new nominations in the appellate or district courts.

For biographical information on those nominated thus far by the Biden administration, click here. 

New Confirmations:
During the previous week, there were no new confirmations in appellate or district courts.

 For masterlist of confirmations thus far during the Biden administration, click here.

Senate Judiciary Committee:
For upcoming schedule of the committee, click here.

Biden Judiciary Scorecard:
As the above chart indicates, there are currently 50 Article III (lifetime tenure) vacancies in the federal courts, including 4 in the appellate courts and 46 in district courts. (These figures include future vacancies for which nominees have been named; see vacancies and nominations.)

There are currently 20 nominations to fill these vacancies: 4 in the appellate courts and 16 in the district courts. For masterlist of court vacancies and nominations, click here.

Thus far (through April 29,'24), President Biden has had 192 of his judicial nominations confirmed, 1 to the Supreme Court, 41 to the appellate courts, 148 to the district courts, and 2 to the U.S. Court of Int'l Trade. For a complete confirmation listing, click here.

During former President Trump's four years in office, the U.S. Senate confirmed 231 Article III judges that he nominated, including 3 U.S. Supreme Court justices; 54 judges to the U.S. appellate courts; and 174 judges to the U.S. district courts.

In percentage terms, Trump during his tenure appointed 33% of U.S. Supreme Court Justices (3 out of 9), 30% of authorized U.S. appeals court judges (54 out of 179), and 26% of authorized U.S. district court judges (174 out of 677).

The following table shows current composition of U.S. appeals courts based on Republican and Democratic Presidential judicial appointments:

 

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