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Gabrielle Kirk McDonald is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1993, including as its President from 1997 to 1999. She was the first African-American woman appointed to the faculty of the University of Texas...

John Sirica was an American federal judge most notably involved in the Watergate scandal. He presided over the trials stemming from the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. His pivotal 1973 order compelled President Nixon to release White House audio tapes, a decision that sig...

Patricia Wald was an American federal judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 to 1999. Nominated by President Jimmy Carter, she later became the first woman to serve as the Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit, holding the position from 1986 t...

Richard S. Arnold (1936-2004) was an American jurist who served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 1992 until his death in 2004. Prior to his appointment to the Eighth Circuit, Arnold served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern...

Frank Easterbrook has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985 and served as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2013. Before his judicial appointment, Easterbrook was a prominent legal scholar and attorney, teaching at the University of Chicago Law School and...

J. Harvie Wilkinson III is an American jurist who has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 1984. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, he previously served as the circuit's chief judge from 1996 to 2003. Before his appointment to the federal bench, Wil...

Marilyn Milian is an American television personality and former Florida state circuit court judge of Cuban descent. She is best recognized for presiding over the syndicated reality court show *The People's Court*, a role she assumed in 2001. Her appointment to the television program made her the fir...

Joan E. Donoghue is an American legal scholar and international lawyer who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague from 2010 to 2024. During her tenure, she acted as the President of the court from 2021 to 2024, making her one of the most prominent American figures...

Lynn Toler is an American lawyer, former municipal court judge, and television personality. She served as the presiding judge on the syndicated arbitration-based reality series Divorce Court for fourteen seasons, from 2006 to 2020. Before her television career, she practiced law and served as the mu...

José Cabranes is a United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1979, he became the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal district court in the continental United States when he joined the District of Connecticut. He has also served as a professor at both Yale Law Scho...

Greg Mathis is an American retired judge and television personality who presided over the syndicated reality court show Judge Mathis for 24 seasons from 1999 to 2023. Before his television career, he served as a judge for Michigan's 36th District Court, making him the youngest person to hold the pos...

Glenda Hatchett is an American lawyer, former judge, author, and television personality. She served as chief presiding judge of the Fulton County Juvenile Court in Georgia before hosting the syndicated courtroom program Judge Hatchett, which originally ran from 2000 to 2008. The program combined adj...

Your Honor is an American crime drama television series adapted from the Israeli series Kvodo. Bryan Cranston stars as Michael Desiato, a respected New Orleans judge who conceals his teenage son's involvement in a fatal hit-and-run, placing both of them in conflict with the Baxter crime family. Orig...

Joe Brown is an American lawyer and television personality who served as a criminal court judge in Shelby County, Tennessee. He became widely known as the host of Judge Joe Brown, a syndicated arbitration-based reality court show that premiered in 1998 and ran until 2013. The program featured Brown...

Janice Rogers Brown is an American jurist who served on the California Supreme Court before joining the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2005. She remained on the federal appellate court until 2017. Brown became known for opinions emphasizing individual liberty,...

Irving Robert Kaufman, born in 1910 and deceased in 1992, was a United States federal judge who presided over the 1951 espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the Southern District of New York and sentenced them to death. In 1961 he joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, w...

Harold R. Medina was an American federal judge who presided over the 1949 trial of eleven Communist Party leaders prosecuted under the Smith Act. The case concerned allegations that the defendants advocated the overthrow of the United States government. Medina later served as a judge on the United S...

Queens Supreme is a 2003 CBS courtroom dramedy set in New York's Queens Supreme Court, notable for its Julia Roberts backed production and short run.

Aileen Cannon is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida. Nominated by President Donald Trump, she was confirmed in November 2020 as one of his final judicial appointments. She gained national attention presiding over the federal case charging Trump with retaining classif...

Lance Ito is an American judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, appointed to the bench in 1989, best known for presiding over the 1995 murder trial of O.J. Simpson. The televised proceedings became one of the most widely followed criminal cases in United States history, and Ito's handling o...