Judicial Vacancy List for December 2012
| Current Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary | 112th Congress | As of 12/01/2012 | |||
| Circuit/District | Incumbent | Vacancy Reason | Vacancy Date | Nominee | Nomination Date |
| 01 - CCA | Lipez,Kermit Victor | Senior | 12/31/2011 | Kayatta Jr.,William J. | 01/23/2012 |
| 01 - MA | Ponsor,Michael A. | Senior | 08/15/2011 | ||
| 01 - PR | Dominguez,Daniel R. | Senior | 07/31/2011 | ||
| 02 - CT | Kravitz,Mark R. | Deceased | 10/01/2012 | ||
| 02 - CT | Droney,Christopher F. | Elevated | 11/28/2011 | Shea,Michael P. | 02/02/2012 |
| 02 - NYE | Dearie,Raymond J. | Senior | 04/03/2011 | Chen,Pamela Ki Mai | 08/02/2012 |
| 02 - NYS | Batts,Deborah A. | Senior | 04/13/2012 | ||
| 02 - NYS | Holwell,Richard J | Resigned | 02/07/2012 | Caproni,Valerie E. | 11/14/2012 |
| 02 - NYS | Cote,Denise | Senior | 12/15/2011 | Failla,Katherine Polk | 06/25/2012 |
| 02 - NYS | Berman,Richard M. | Senior | 09/11/2011 | Roman,Nelson Stephen | 09/20/2012 |
| 02 - NYS | Scheindlin,Shira Ann | Senior | 08/16/2011 | Schofield,Lorna G. | 04/25/2012 |
| 02 - NYS | Buchwald,Naomi Reice | Senior | 03/21/2012 | Torres,Analisa | 11/14/2012 |
| 02 - NYW | Larimer,David G. | Senior | 03/03/2009 | Geraci Jr.,Frank Paul | 05/14/2012 |
| 03 - CCA | Barry,Maryanne Trump | Senior | 06/30/2011 | Shwartz,Patty | 10/05/2011 |
| 03 - PAE | Bartle III,Harvey | Senior | 10/01/2011 | ||
| 03 - PAE | Baylson,Michael M. | Senior | 07/13/2012 | ||
| 03 - PAE | Schiller,Berle M. | Senior | 06/18/2012 | ||
| 03 - PAE | Surrick,R. Barclay | Senior | 02/01/2011 | Alejandro,Nitza I. Quinones | 11/27/2012 |
| 03 - PAE | Brody,Anita B. | Senior | 06/08/2009 | Restrepo,Luis Felipe | 11/27/2012 |
| 03 - PAE | Golden,Thomas M. | Deceased | 07/31/2010 | Schmehl,Jeffrey L. | 11/27/2012 |
| 03 - PAM | Vanaskie,Thomas I. | Elevated | 04/21/2010 | Brann,Matthew W. | 05/17/2012 |
| 03 - PAM | Caputo,A. Richard | Senior | 03/31/2009 | Mannion,Malachy Edward | 05/17/2012 |
| 04 - MD | Legg,Benson Everett | Senior | 06/08/2012 | Grimm,Paul William | 02/16/2012 |
| 04 - NCE | Howard,Malcolm J. | Senior | 12/31/2005 | ||
| 05 - CCA | Garza,Emilio M. | Senior | 08/01/2012 | ||
| 05 - CCA | Benavides,Fortunato P. | Senior | 02/03/2012 | ||
| 05 - LAM | Tyson,Ralph E. | Deceased | 07/18/2011 | Dick,Shelly Deckert | 04/25/2012 |
| 05 - MSN | Pepper Jr.,W. Allen | Deceased | 01/24/2012 | ||
| 05 - TXE | Folsom,David | Retired | 03/17/2012 | ||
| 05 - TXE | Ward,T. John | Retired | 10/01/2011 | ||
| 05 - TXS | Jack,Janis Graham | Senior | 06/01/2011 | ||
| 05 - TXW | Furgeson Jr.,W. Royal | Senior | 11/30/2008 | ||
| 06 - KYW | Russell,Thomas B. | Senior | 11/15/2011 | ||
| 06 - MIE | Edmunds,Nancy G. | Senior | 08/01/2012 | ||
| 06 - MIE | Battani,Marianne O. | Senior | 06/09/2012 | ||
| 06 - MIE | Tarnow,Arthur J. | Senior | 05/25/2010 | Berg,Terrence G. | 04/25/2012 |
| 07 - CCA | Evans,Terence T. | Senior | 01/07/2010 | ||
| 07 - ILN | Hibbler,William J. | Deceased | 03/19/2012 | ||
| 07 - ILN | Gottschall,Joan B. | Senior | 04/23/2012 | ||
| 07 - ILN | Lefkow,Joan Humphrey | Senior | 09/01/2012 | ||
| 07 - ILN | Andersen,Wayne R. | Retired | 07/31/2010 | Durkin,Thomas M. | 05/21/2012 |
| 07 - WIE | Clevert Jr.,Charles N. | Senior | 10/31/2012 | ||
| 07 - WIW | Shabaz,John C. | Senior | 01/20/2009 | ||
| 09 - AZ | Murguia,Mary H. | Elevated | 01/03/2011 | ||
| 09 - AZ | Zapata,Frank R. | Senior | 08/03/2010 | Marquez,Rosemary | 06/23/2011 |
| 09 - CAC | Larson,Stephen G. | Resigned | 11/02/2009 | Bernal,Jesus G. | 04/25/2012 |
| 09 - CAC | Fairbank,Valerie Baker | Senior | 03/01/2012 | O'Connell,Beverly Reid | 11/14/2012 |
| 09 - CAC | Nguyen,Jacqueline H. | Elevated | 05/07/2012 | Olguin,Fernando M. | 05/14/2012 |
| 09 - CAE | Ishii,Anthony W. | Senior | 10/31/2012 | ||
| 09 - CAE | Burrell Jr.,Garland E. | Senior | 07/04/2012 | Nunley,Troy L. | 06/25/2012 |
| 09 - CAN | Ware,James | Retired | 08/31/2012 | ||
| 09 - CAN | Position Open | New Position | 10/03/2011 | ||
| 09 - CAN | Breyer,Charles R. | Senior | 12/31/2011 | Orrick III,William H. | 06/11/2012 |
| 09 - CAN | Armstrong,Saundra Brown | Senior | 03/23/2012 | Tigar,Jon S. | 06/11/2012 |
| 09 - CCA | Trott,Stephen S. | Senior | 12/31/2004 | ||
| 09 - HI | Ezra,David A. | Senior | 06/27/2012 | Watson,Derrick Kahala | 11/14/2012 |
| 09 - NV | Pro,Philip M. | Senior | 12/31/2011 | Cadish,Elissa F. | 02/16/2012 |
| 09 - NV | Dawson,Kent J. | Senior | 07/09/2012 | Gordon,Andrew Patrick | 09/19/2012 |
| 09 - OR | Hogan,Michael R. | Senior | 09/24/2011 | McShane,Michael J. | 09/19/2012 |
| 09 - WAE | Shea,Edward F. | Senior | 06/07/2012 | ||
| 10 - CCA | Tacha,Deanell Reece | Senior | 01/27/2011 | ||
| 10 - CCA | Henry,Robert H. | Resigned | 06/30/2010 | Bacharach,Robert E. | 01/23/2012 |
| 10 - KS | Lungstrum,John W. | Senior | 11/02/2010 | ||
| 10 - NM | Black,Bruce D. | Senior | 10/01/2012 | Gonzales,Kenneth John | 11/14/2012 |
| 10 - OKN | Kern,Terence C. | Senior | 01/04/2010 | Dowdell,John E. | 02/29/2012 |
| 11 - ALN | Johnson,Inge Prytz | Senior | 10/24/2012 | ||
| 11 - CCA | Edmondson,J. L. | Senior | 07/15/2012 | ||
| 11 - CCA | Birch Jr.,Stanley F. | Retired | 08/29/2010 | Pryor,Jill A. | 02/16/2012 |
| 11 - FLM | Presnell,Gregory A. | Senior | 04/01/2012 | Chappell,Sheri Polster | 06/25/2012 |
| 11 - FLM | Lazzara,Richard A. | Senior | 12/17/2011 | Davis,Brian J. | 02/29/2012 |
| 11 - FLN | Mickle,Stephan P. | Senior | 06/22/2011 | Walker,Mark E. | 02/16/2012 |
| 11 - FLS | Seitz,Patricia A. | Senior | 11/16/2012 | ||
| 11 - FLS | Jordan,Adalberto | Elevated | 02/15/2012 | Thomas,William L. | 11/14/2012 |
| 11 - GAN | Cooper,Clarence | Senior | 02/09/2009 | ||
| 11 - GAN | Martin,Beverly B. | Elevated | 01/20/2010 | ||
| DC - CCA | Ginsburg,Douglas H. | Senior | 10/14/2011 | ||
| DC - CCA | Roberts Jr.,John G. | Elevated | 09/29/2005 | Halligan,Caitlin Joan | 09/19/2012 |
| DC - CCA | Randolph,A. Raymond | Senior | 11/01/2008 | Srinivasan,Srikanth | 06/11/2012 |
| DC - DC | Kennedy Jr.,Henry H. | Senior | 11/18/2011 | Jackson,Ketanji Brown | 09/20/2012 |
| FD - CCA | Linn,Richard | Senior | 10/31/2012 | ||
| FD - CCA | Michel,Paul R. | Retired | 05/31/2010 | Taranto,Richard Gary | 11/10/2011 |
| IT - CCA | Barzilay,Judith M. | Senior | 06/02/2011 | Barnett,Mark A. | 07/12/2012 |
| IT - CCA | Wallach,Evan J. | Elevated | 11/08/2011 | Kelly,Claire R. | 11/14/2012 |
| Total Vacancies: 83 | |||||
| Total Nominees Pending: 44 | |||||
| Archived Judicial Vacancies for December 2012 |