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Judicial Vacancy List for December 2015
| Court | Incumbent | Vacancy Reason | Vacancy Date | Nominee | Nomination Date |
| 01 - MA | Woodlock,Douglas P. | Senior | 06/01/2015 | Bernstein,Inga S. | 07/30/2015 |
| 01 - RI | Lisi,Mary M. | Senior | 10/01/2015 | McElroy,Mary Susan | 09/08/2015 |
| 02 - NY-E | Feuerstein,Sandra J. | Senior | 01/21/2015 | Brown,Gary Richard | 07/30/2015 |
| 02 - NY-S | Crotty,Paul A. | Senior | 08/01/2015 | | |
| 02 - NY-W | Skretny,William M. | Senior | 03/08/2015 | | |
| 03 - CCA | Rendell,Marjorie O. | Senior | 07/01/2015 | | |
| 03 - CCA | Scirica,Anthony J. | Senior | 07/01/2013 | Restrepo,Luis Felipe | 01/07/2015 |
| 03 - NJ | Martini,William J. | Senior | 02/10/2015 | | |
| 03 - NJ | Chesler,Stanley R. | Senior | 06/15/2015 | Martinotti,Brian R. | 06/11/2015 |
| 03 - NJ | Hochberg,Faith S. | Retired | 03/06/2015 | Neals,Julien Xavier | 02/26/2015 |
| 03 - NJ | Pisano,Joel A. | Retired | 02/16/2015 | Vazquez,John Michael | 03/26/2015 |
| 03 - PA-E | McLaughlin,Mary A. | Senior | 11/18/2013 | Younge,John Milton | 07/30/2015 |
| 03 - PA-W | McLaughlin,Sean J. | Resigned | 08/16/2013 | Baxter,Susan Paradise | 07/30/2015 |
| 03 - PA-W | Lancaster,Gary L. | Deceased | 04/24/2013 | Colville,Robert John | 07/30/2015 |
| 03 - PA-W | McVerry,Terrence F. | Senior | 09/30/2013 | Horan,Marilyn Jean | 07/30/2015 |
| 04 - MD | Chasanow,Deborah K. | Senior | 10/03/2014 | Xinis,Paula | 03/26/2015 |
| 04 - NC-E | Howard,Malcolm J. | Senior | 12/31/2005 | | |
| 04 - SC | Currie,Cameron McGowan | Senior | 10/03/2013 | | |
| 04 - SC | Anderson Jr.,Joseph F. | Senior | 11/16/2014 | | |
| 05 - CCA | Garza,Emilio M. | Senior | 08/01/2012 | | |
| 05 - CCA | King,Carolyn Dineen | Senior | 12/31/2013 | | |
| 05 - LA-E | Lemelle,Ivan L. | Senior | 06/29/2015 | | |
| 05 - LA-W | Haik,Richard T. | Senior | 03/06/2015 | | |
| 05 - TX-E | Schell,Richard A. | Senior | 03/10/2015 | | |
| 05 - TX-E | Davis,Leonard E. | Retired | 05/15/2015 | | |
| 05 - TX-N | Means,Terry | Senior | 07/03/2013 | | |
| 05 - TX-N | Cummings,Samuel Ray | Senior | 12/31/2014 | | |
| 05 - TX-S | Costa,Gregg Jeffrey | Elevated | 05/20/2014 | | |
| 05 - TX-S | Jack,Janis Graham | Senior | 06/01/2011 | | |
| 05 - TX-W | Junell,Robert A. | Senior | 02/13/2015 | | |
| 06 - CCA | Martin Jr.,Boyce F. | Retired | 08/16/2013 | | |
| 06 - KY-E | Coffman,Jennifer B. | Retired | 01/08/2013 | | |
| 06 - KY-W | Heyburn II,John G. | Senior | 04/01/2014 | | |
| 06 - TN-E | Collier,Curtis Lynn | Senior | 10/31/2014 | McDonough,Travis Randall | 01/07/2015 |
| 06 - TN-M | Haynes Jr.,William Joseph | Senior | 12/01/2014 | Crenshaw Jr.,Waverly D. | 02/04/2015 |
| 06 - TN-W | Mays Jr.,Samuel H. | Senior | 07/01/2015 | Stanton III,Edward L. | 05/21/2015 |
| 07 - CCA | Tinder,John Daniel | Senior | 02/18/2015 | | |
| 07 - CCA | Evans,Terence T. | Senior | 01/07/2010 | | |
| 07 - IN-S | Barker,Sarah Evans | Senior | 06/30/2014 | | |
| 08 - CCA | Bye,Kermit Edward | Senior | 04/22/2015 | | |
| 08 - IA-N | Bennett,Mark W. | Senior | 06/04/2015 | Strand,Leonard Terry | 07/21/2015 |
| 08 - IA-S | Gritzner,James E. | Senior | 03/01/2015 | Ebinger,Rebecca Goodgame | 09/15/2015 |
| 08 - MN | Davis,Michael James | Senior | 08/01/2015 | Wright,Wilhelmina Marie | 04/15/2015 |
| 08 - NE | Bataillon,Joseph F. | Senior | 10/03/2014 | Rossiter Jr.,Robert F. | 06/11/2015 |
| 09 - CA-C | Morrow,Margaret M. | Senior | 10/29/2015 | | |
| 09 - CA-C | Collins,Audrey B. | Retired | 08/01/2014 | Young,Mark A. | 07/16/2015 |
| 09 - HI | Mollway,Susan Oki | Senior | 11/06/2015 | Connors,Clare Elizabeth | 09/08/2015 |
| 09 - ID | Lodge,Edward J. | Senior | 07/03/2015 | | |
| 10 - KS | Vratil,Kathryn H. | Senior | 04/22/2014 | | |
| 10 - OK-W | Cauthron,Robin J. | Senior | 07/14/2015 | | |
| 10 - OK-W | Friot,Stephen P. | Senior | 12/01/2014 | | |
| 10 - OK-W | Russell,David L. | Senior | 07/07/2013 | | |
| 10 - UT | Stewart,Brian T. | Senior | 09/01/2014 | | |
| 11 - AL-M | Fuller,Mark E. | Resigned | 08/01/2015 | | |
| 11 - AL-M | Thompson,Myron H. | Senior | 08/22/2013 | | |
| 11 - AL-N | Smith Jr.,C. Lynwood | Senior | 08/31/2013 | | |
| 11 - AL-N | Blackburn,Sharon Lovelace | Senior | 05/08/2015 | | |
| 11 - CCA | Dubina,Joel F. | Senior | 10/26/2013 | | |
| 11 - FL-M | Steele,John E. | Senior | 06/03/2015 | | |
| 11 - FL-M | Conway,Anne C. | Senior | 08/01/2015 | | |
| 11 - FL-S | Rosenbaum,Robin S. | Elevated | 05/12/2014 | Flores,Mary Barzee | 02/26/2015 |
| 11 - GA-N | Carnes,Julie E. | Elevated | 07/21/2014 | Lopez,Dax Eric | 07/30/2015 |
| IT | Pogue,Donald C. | Senior | 07/01/2014 | Davidson,Jeanne E. | 01/07/2015 |
| IT | Eaton,Richard K. | Senior | 08/22/2014 | Drake,Elizabeth J. | 07/30/2015 |
| IT | Carman,Gregory W. | Senior | 09/15/2014 | Groves,Jennifer Choe | 07/30/2015 |
| IT | Restani,Jane A. | Senior | 03/01/2015 | Katzmann,Gary Stephen | 07/30/2015 |