U.S. District Court in Washington
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U.S. District Court in Washington
U.S. District Judges for Washington, 1890-1905(may beincomplete!)
CorneliusHanford 1890-1905
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Washington,1905-2017(may be incomplete!)
EdwardWhitson 1905-10FrankH. Rudkin 1911-23J.Stanley Webster 1923-39LewisB. Schwellenbach 1940-45SamM. Driver 1946WilliamJames Lindberg 1951-61CharlesLawrence Powell 1959-72MarshallAllen Neill 1972-79JackEdward Tanner 1978RobertJames McNichols 1979-91AlanAngus McDonald 1985-96RobertH. Whaley 1995-2009EdwardF. Shea 1998-2012LonnyR. Suko 2003-13StanleyAllen Bastian 2014-SalvadorMendoza, Jr. 2014-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Washington,1905-2017(may be incomplete!)
CorneliusHanford 1905-12GeorgeDonworth 1909-12EdwardE. Cushman 1912-39ClintonWoodbury Howard 1912-13JeremiahNeterer 1913-JohnClyde Bowen 1934-61LloydL. Black 1939-50WilliamJames Lindberg 1951-71GeorgeHugo Boldt 1953-71WilliamTrulock Beeks 1961-73WalterThomas McGovern 1971-87MorellEdward Sharp 1971-80DonaldS. Voorhees 1974-86JackEdward Tanner 1978-91JohnC. Coughenour 1981-2006CarolynR. Dimmick 1985-97RobertJ. Bryan 1986-2000WilliamLee Dwyer 1987-98FranklinD. Burgess 1994-2005RicardoS. Martinez 2004-BenjaminHale Settle 2007-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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