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Henry J. Friendly

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Frank M. Johnson Jr.

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9.2 Excellent

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Beverley McLachlin

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9.1 Excellent

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Aharon Barak

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Richard A. Posner

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Antonio Cassese

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Arthur Chaskalson

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Frank H. Easterbrook

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John J. Sirica

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Lord Woolf

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William Gummow

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Diane P. Wood

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Jon O. Newman

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J. Michael Luttig

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Merrick B. Garland

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Florence Ellinwood Allen

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Robert H. Bork

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Phyllis A. Kravitch

First woman appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979), later continuing service on the Eleventh Circuit aft...

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Irving R. Kaufman

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