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U.S. District Court in New York
U.S. District Judges for New York, 1790-1814(may beincomplete!)
JamesDuane 1790-94JohnLaurance 1794-96RobertTroup 1796-98JohnSloss Hobart 1798MatthiasB. Tallmadge 1805-14WilliamP. Van Ness 1812-14
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of New York,1865-2017(may be incomplete!)
CharlesL. Benedict 1865-97AsaW. Tenney 1897EdwardB. Thomas 1898-1906VanVechten Veeder 1911-17EdwinL. Garvin 1918-25RobertAlexander Inch 1923-58GroverM. Moscowitz 1925-47ClarenceG. Galston 1929-56MortimerW. Byers 1929-60MatthewT. Abruzzo 1936-66WalterBruchhausen 1953-67JosephCarmine Zavatt 1957-70JohnR. Bartels 1959-73JacobMishler 1960-80GeorgeRosling 1961-73AnthonyJ. Travia 1968MarkA. Costantino 1971-87HenryBramwell 1974-87GeorgeC. Pratt 1976CharlesProctor Sifton 1977-2000EugeneH. Nickerson 1977-94JosephM. McLaughlin 1981-90FrankX. Altimari 1982-85LeonardD. Wexler 1983-94ReenaRaggi 1987-2002HenryBramwell 1987ArthurDonald Spatt 1989-2004CarolBagley Amon 1990-JoannaSeybert 1993-2014FredericBlock 1994-JosephFrank Bianco 2006-BrianMark Cogan 2006-RoslynnRenee Mauskopf 2007-KiyoA. Matsumoto 2008-MargoKitsy Brodie 2012-PamelaK. Chen 2013-JoanMarie Azrack 2014-AnnMarie Donnelly 2015-LaShannMoutique DeArcy Hall 2015-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Northern District of New York,1814-2017(may be incomplete!)
MatthiasB. Tallmadge 1814-19RogerSkinner 1819-25AlfredConkling 1825-52NathanK. Hall 1852-74WilliamJames Wallace 1874AlfredConkling Coxe 1882-1902GeorgeW. Ray 1902-08FrederickH. Bryant 1927-45StephenW. Brennan 1942-63EdwardS. Kampf 1946HowardG. Munson 1976-90NealP. McCurn 1979-93RogerJ. Miner 1981-85ThomasJames McAvoy 1986-2003Con.G. Cholakis 1986-96FrederickJ. Scullin, Jr. 1992-2006NormanA. Mordue 1998-2013GaryL. Sharpe 2004-16GlennT. Suddaby 2008-MaeAvila D'Agostino 2011-BrendaK. Sannes 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Southern District of New York,1814-2017(may be incomplete!)
WilliamP. Van Ness 1814-26SamuelRossiter Betts 1826-67SamuelM. Blatchford 1867-78WilliamGardner Choate 1878-81AddisonBrown 1881-1901GeorgeBethune Adams 1901-11GeorgeChandler Holt 1903-14CharlesM. Hough 1906-16LearnedHand 1909-24JuliusM. Mayer 1912-21AugustusN. Hand 1914-27MartinT. Manton 1916-18HenryWarren Goddard 1923-54WilliamBondy 1923-56ThomasD. Thacher 1925-30AlfredConkling Coxe, Jr. 1929JohnMunro Woolsey 1929-43FrancisG. Caffey 1929-47RobertP. Patterson 1930-39G.Murray Hulbert 1934-50VincentL. Leibell 1936-54SamuelMandelbaum 1936-46EdwardA. Conger 1938-54JohnBright 1941-48SimonRifkind 1941-50HaroldR. Medina 1947-51SamuelHamilton Kaufman 1948IrvingR. Kaufman 1949-61JohnF. X. McGohey 1949-70SidneySugarman 1949-71ThomasF. Murphy 1951-70EdwardJordan Dimock 1951-61DavidN. Edelstein 1951-94LawrenceEdward Walsh 1954-57AlexanderBicks 1954-63EdmundLouis Palmieri 1954-72WilliamBernard Herlands 1955-69JohnM. Cashin 1955-65RichardHarrington Levet 1956-66FrederickV. P. Bryan 1956-72LloydF. MacMahon 1959-82CharlesMiller Metzner 1959-77WilfredFeinberg 1961DudleyB. Bonsal 1961-76IrvingBen Cooper 1961-72InzerB. Wyatt 1962-77EdwardCochrane McLean 1962-72JohnMatthew Cannella 1963-77CharlesHenry Tenney 1963-79MarvinE. Frankel 1965-78WalterR. Mansfield 1966-71ConstanceBaker Motley 1966-86MiltonPollack 1967-83MorrisE. Lasker 1968-83LawrenceWarren Pierce 1971MurrayGurfein 1971-74CharlesL. Brieant, Jr. 1971-ArnoldBauman 1971-74LeeParsons Gagliardi 1971-85WhitmanKnapp 1972-87CharlesE. Stewart, Jr. 1972-85RobertL. Carter 1972-86KevinThomas Duffy 1972-98RobertJoseph Ward 1972-91RichardOwen 1973-89HenryFrederick Werker 1974-84CharlesSherman Haight, Jr. 1976-95GerardLouis Goettel 1976-93VincentL. Broderick 1976-88PierreNelson Leval 1977RobertW. Sweet 1978-91LeonardB. Sand 1978-93MaryJohnson Lowe 1978-91AbrahamDavid Sofaer 1979-85JohnEmilio Sprizzo 1981-2000ShirleyWohl Kram 1983-93PeterKeeton Leisure 1984-97JohnM. Walker, Jr. 1985-89LouisLee Stanton 1985-96MiriamGoldman Cedarbaum 1986-98RichardJ. Daronco 1987-88MichaelB. Mukasey 1987-2006KennethConboy 1987-93JohnS. Martin, Jr. 1990-2003LawrenceM. McKenna 1990-2002LouisJ. Freeh 1991-93SoniaSotomayor 1992-98AllenG. Schwartz 1993-2003DeborahA. Batts 1994-HaroldBaer, Jr. 1994-2004DennyChin 1994-2010DeniseCote 1994-2011ShiraA. Scheindlin 1994-2011SidneyH. Stein 1995-2010JedSaul Rakoff 1996-2010RichardConway Casey 1997-2007RichardM. Berman 1998-AlvinK. Hellerstein 1998-2011ColleenMcMahon 1998-NaomiReice Buchwald 1999-VictorMarrero 1999-2010LauraTaylor Swain 2000-P.Kevin Castel 2003-RichardJoseph Sullivan 2007-CathySeibel 2008-VincentLouis Briccetti 2011-PaulAdam Engelmayer 2011-AndrewLamar Carter, Jr. 2011-RonnieAbrams 2012-LornaG. Schofield 2012-VernonSpeede Broderick 2013-ValerieElaine Caproni 2013-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of New York,1927-2015(may be incomplete!)
SimonL. Adler 1927-34JohnKnight 1931-55HaroldP. Burke 1937-81JustinC. Morgan 1956-59RichardJ. Arcara 1988-WilliamM. Skretny 1990-2015CharlesJ. Siragusa 1997-2012
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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