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Following is a list of allArticle IIIUnited States federal judges appointed byPresidentRonald Reagan during his presidency.^[1] In total Reagan appointed: four justices to theSupreme Court of the United States, including the appointment of a sittingassociate justice aschief justice, 83 judges to theUnited States courts of appeals, 290 judges to theUnited States district courts and 6 judges to theUnited States Court of International Trade. Reagan's total of 383 Article III judicial appointments is the most by any president.

In addition to these appointments, Reagan signed theFederal Courts Improvement Act in 1982, which transferred five judges from the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, and seven judges from the appellate division of the United States Court of Claims, into the newly createdUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Although each of those twelve judges had been appointed to their original tribunals by previous presidents, Reagan's signing of the act effectively placed all of them on the new Court of Appeals.

10 of Reagan's appointees remain in active service, five appellate judges and five district judges.Two additional judges named by Reagan to district courts remain in active service as appellate judges by appointment of later presidents.

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  Reagan elevatedWilliam Rehnquist to the office ofChief Justice.
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  Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed by Reagan as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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  Reagan namedAntonin Scalia to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit before elevating him to the Supreme Court.
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  Reagan signed into law the bill that created theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and reassigned judges from predecessor courts to the new Circuit Court.
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  Frank Easterbrook, appointed by Reagan to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
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  Robert C. Broomfield, appointed to theUnited States District Court for the District of Arizona, later served on theForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court.