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U.S. District Court in District of Columbia
U.S. District Judges for the District of District of Columbia,1936-2017(may be incomplete!)
JesseCorcoran Adkins 1936-46EdwardM. Curran 1948BolithaJames Laws 1948-58JamesRobert Kirkland 1949-58BurnitaShelton Matthews 1949-68CharlesF. McLaughlin 1949-64WalterMaximillian Bastian 1950-54JosephC. McGarraghy 1954-67JohnJ. Sirica 1957-77GeorgeL. Hart, Jr. 1958-79LeonardPatrick Walsh 1959-71SpottswoodW. Robinson III 1964-66OliverGasch 1965-81HowardFrancis Corcoran 1965-77WilliamB. Bryant 1965-82AubreyEugene Robinson, Jr. 1966-93JohnLewis Smith, Jr. 1966-83JosephCornelius Waddy 1967-78GerhardAlden Gesell 1967-93JuneLazenby Green 1968-84JohnHelm Pratt 1968-89BarringtonD. Parker 1969-85CharlesRobert Richey 1971-97LouisFalk Oberdorfer 1977-92HaroldH. Greene 1978-95JohnGarrett Penn 1979-98ThomasPenfield Jackson 1982-2002GeorgeHughes Revercomb 1985-93StanleySporkin 1985-99MichaelBoudin 1990-92EmmetG. Sullivan 1994-ReggieB. Walton 2001-15JohnD. Bates 2001-14RosemaryM. Collyer 2002-16JamesEmanuel Boasberg 2011-RudolphContreras 2012-ChristopherReid Cooper 2014-TanyaSue Chutkan 2014-RandolphDaniel Moss 2014-AmitP. Mehta 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District ofColumbia, 1863-1967(may be incomplete!)
AndrewWylie 1863-85ArthurMacArthur 1870-87AlexanderBurton Hagner 1879-1903WalterSmith Cox 1879-99CharlesPinckney James 1879-92WilliamMatthew Merrick 1885-89MartinV. Montgomery 1887-92LouisE. McComas 1892-99DanielThew Wright 1903-14WendellPhillips Stafford 1904-31WalterIrving McCoy 1914-18FrederickL. Siddons 1915-31ThomasJennings Bailey 1918-50AlfredAdams Wheat 1929-30JosephWinston Cox 1930-39JamesMcPherson Proctor 1931-48DanielWilliam O'Donoghue 1931-46BolithaJames Laws 1938-45JamesW. Morris 1939-60MatthewFrancis McGuire 1941-66HenryAlbert Schweinhaut 1944-56AlexanderHoltzoff 1945-67RichmondBowling Keech 1946-66EdwardAllen Tamm 1948-65
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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