Weekly Judicial Update - January 20, 2025

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, January 17, 2025 (see vacancies and nominations).

 
New Vacancies:
During the previous week (Jan 13 - Jan 17), there was 1 new vacancy, in the appellate courts:

   Kent A Jordan, Third Circuit, retirement, 1/15/25.

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 to 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 to the appellate or district courts.

For masterlist of confirmations, click here.

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

Trump - Biden Judiciary Scorecards:
As the above chart indicates, there are currently 40 Article III (lifetime tenure) vacancies in the federal courts, including 3 in the appellate courts and 37 in district courts. (see vacancies and nominations.)

Pending nominations to fill these vacancies expired with the adjournment of the 118th Congress (2023-2025) on January 3, 2025. The 119th Congress (2025-2027) convened on that date. 

NationsCourts.com will note new court vacancies, judicial nominations, and confirmations (or rejections) as they occur.

For masterlist of court vacancies and nominations, click here.

Thus far, President Trump has made no judicial nominations to fill federal court vacancies.

President Biden during his four years in office (2021-2025) had 235 of his judicial nominations confirmed, 1 to the Supreme Court, 45 to the appellate courts, 187 to the district courts, and 2 to the U.S. Court of Int'l Trade. For a complete confirmation listing, click here.

During President Trump's first four years in office (2017-21), the U.S. Senate confirmed 234 Article III (lifetime tenure) federal judges that he nominated, including 3 Supreme Court justices; 54 judges to the appellate courts; 174 judges to the district courts; and 3 judges to the Court of Int'l Trade.

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

 

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