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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...

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...

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...

Isaac Parker was a United States federal judge who served as judge of the Western District of Arkansas from 1875 to 1896, with his court based at Fort Smith. His jurisdiction included much of the unsettled western frontier, where the court handled cases involving federal crimes and conflicts in Indi...

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...