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Judicial Vacancy List for January 2017

Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary

114th Congress

Last updated on01/01/2017

Total Vacancies:112

Total Nominees Pending:59

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 - PR	Fuste,Jose Antonio	Retired	06/01/2016
01 - RI	Lisi,Mary M.	Senior	10/01/2015	McElroy,Mary Susan	09/08/2015
02 - CCA	Wesley,Richard C.	Senior	08/01/2016
02 - CCA	Lynch,Gerard E.	Senior	09/05/2016
02 - CT	Chatigny,Robert N.	Senior	01/01/2017
02 - NY-E	Amon,Carol Bagley	Senior	11/30/2016
02 - NY-E	Feuerstein,Sandra J.	Senior	01/21/2015	Brown,Gary Richard	07/30/2015
02 - NY-E	Gleeson,John	Resigned	03/09/2016	Gujarati,Diane	09/13/2016
02 - NY-N	Sharpe,Gary L.	Senior	01/01/2016
02 - NY-S	Crotty,Paul A.	Senior	08/01/2015
02 - NY-W	Skretny,William M.	Senior	03/08/2015	Sweet,Kathleen Marie	03/15/2016
03 - CCA	Fuentes,Julio M.	Senior	07/18/2016
03 - CCA	Rendell,Marjorie O.	Senior	07/01/2015	Haywood,Rebecca Ross	03/15/2016
03 - NJ	Martini,William J.	Senior	02/10/2015
03 - NJ	Hochberg,Faith S.	Retired	03/06/2015	Neals,Julien Xavier	02/26/2015
03 - PA-E	Restrepo,Luis Felipe	Elevated	01/11/2016
03 - PA-E	McLaughlin,Mary A.	Senior	11/18/2013	Younge,John Milton	07/30/2015
03 - PA-W	Gibson,Kim R.	Senior	06/03/2016
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	Quarles Jr.,William D.	Retired	02/01/2016	Gallagher,Stephanie Agli	09/08/2015
04 - NC-E	Howard,Malcolm J.	Senior	12/31/2005	Timmons-Goodson,Patricia Ann	04/28/2016
04 - SC	Currie,Cameron McGowan	Senior	10/03/2013	Beatty,Donald W.	02/25/2016
04 - SC	Anderson Jr.,Joseph F.	Senior	11/16/2014	Coggins Jr.,Donald C.	02/25/2016
05 - CCA	King,Carolyn Dineen	Senior	12/31/2013
05 - CCA	Garza,Emilio M.	Senior	08/01/2012
05 - CCA	Davis,W. Eugene	Senior	12/31/2016
05 - LA-E	Berrigan,Helen G.	Senior	08/23/2016
05 - LA-E	Lemelle,Ivan L.	Senior	06/29/2015	Kelly III,Claude J.	02/04/2016
05 - LA-W	James,Robert G.	Senior	05/31/2016
05 - LA-W	Haik,Richard T.	Senior	03/06/2015	Finley,Stephanie A.	02/04/2016
05 - TX-E	Schneider,Michael H.	Senior	01/07/2016
05 - TX-E	Davis,Leonard E.	Retired	05/15/2015
05 - TX-E	Schell,Richard A.	Senior	03/10/2015	Scholer,Karen Gren	03/15/2016
05 - TX-N	Robinson,Mary Lou	Senior	02/03/2016
05 - TX-N	Cummings,Samuel Ray	Senior	12/31/2014	Frost,E. Scott	03/15/2016
05 - TX-N	Solis,Jorge A.	Retired	05/01/2016	Hendrix,James Wesley	03/15/2016
05 - TX-N	Means,Terry	Senior	07/03/2013	Ramirez,Irma Carrillo	03/15/2016
05 - TX-S	Costa,Gregg Jeffrey	Elevated	05/20/2014
05 - TX-S	Jack,Janis Graham	Senior	06/01/2011
05 - TX-W	Smith Jr.,Walter S.	Retired	09/14/2016
05 - TX-W	Junell,Robert A.	Senior	02/13/2015	Counts III,Walter David	03/15/2016
06 - CCA	Martin Jr.,Boyce F.	Retired	08/16/2013	Hughes,Lisabeth Tabor	03/17/2016
06 - KY-E	Coffman,Jennifer B.	Retired	01/08/2013
06 - KY-W	Heyburn II,John G.	Senior	04/01/2014
06 - MI-E	Rosen,Gerald E.	Senior	10/26/2016
06 - OH-N	Nugent,Donald C.	Senior	01/01/2017
06 - OH-S	Frost,Gregory L.	Retired	05/02/2016
06 - TN-M	Campbell,Todd J.	Senior	12/01/2016
06 - TN-W	Mays Jr.,Samuel H.	Senior	07/01/2015	Stanton III,Edward L.	05/21/2015
07 - CCA	Evans,Terence T.	Senior	01/07/2010	Schott,Donald K.	01/12/2016
07 - CCA	Tinder,John Daniel	Senior	02/18/2015	Selby,Myra C.	01/12/2016
07 - IL-N	Zagel,James B.	Senior	10/21/2016
07 - IN-N	Miller Jr.,Robert L.	Senior	01/11/2016
07 - IN-S	Barker,Sarah Evans	Senior	06/30/2014	Ong,Winfield D.	01/12/2016
07 - WI-E	Randa,Rudolph T.	Senior	02/05/2016
08 - CCA	Murphy,Diana E.	Senior	11/29/2016
08 - CCA	Bye,Kermit Edward	Senior	04/22/2015	Puhl,Jennifer Kelmetsrud	01/28/2016
08 - MN	Montgomery,Ann D.	Senior	05/31/2016
08 - MN	Frank,Donovan W.	Senior	10/31/2016
09 - AK	Beistline,Ralph R.	Senior	12/31/2015
09 - AZ	Wake,Neil Vincent	Senior	07/05/2016
09 - AZ	Bolton,Susan R.	Senior	09/01/2016
09 - CA-C	Snyder,Christina A.	Senior	11/23/2016
09 - CA-C	Morrow,Margaret M.	Senior	10/29/2015
09 - CA-C	Pregerson,Dean D.	Senior	01/28/2016	Abrams,Paul Lewis	12/16/2015
09 - CA-C	Collins,Audrey B.	Retired	08/01/2014	Young,Mark A.	07/16/2015
09 - CA-S	Huff,Marilyn L.	Senior	09/30/2016
09 - CCA	Silverman,Barry G.	Senior	10/11/2016
09 - CCA	O'Scannlain,Diarmuid F.	Senior	12/31/2016
09 - CCA	Clifton,Richard R.	Senior	12/31/2016
09 - CCA	Pregerson,Harry	Senior	12/11/2015	Koh,Lucy Haeran	02/25/2016
09 - HI	Mollway,Susan Oki	Senior	11/06/2015	Connors,Clare Elizabeth	09/08/2015
09 - ID	Lodge,Edward J.	Senior	07/03/2015	Nye,David C.	04/06/2016
09 - NV	Jones,Robert Clive	Senior	02/01/2016	Traum,Anne Rachel	04/28/2016
09 - WA-W	Lasnik,Robert S.	Senior	01/27/2016	Andrus,Beth M.	04/14/2016
09 - WA-W	Robart,James L.	Senior	06/28/2016	Diaz,J. Michael	04/14/2016
09 - WA-W	Pechman,Marsha J.	Senior	02/06/2016	O'Sullivan,Kathleen M.	04/14/2016
10 - CO	Blackburn,Robert E.	Senior	04/12/2016	Rodriguez,Regina M.	04/28/2016
10 - KS	Vratil,Kathryn H.	Senior	04/22/2014	Campbell,Terrence J.	01/28/2016
10 - OK-W	Cauthron,Robin J.	Senior	07/14/2015
10 - OK-W	Russell,David L.	Senior	07/07/2013	Mitchell,Suzanne	12/16/2015
10 - OK-W	Friot,Stephen P.	Senior	12/01/2014	Palk,Scott L.	12/16/2015
10 - UT	Stewart,Brian T.	Senior	09/01/2014	Russell,Ronald G.	12/16/2015
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 - AL-S	Granade,Callie V.S.	Senior	03/07/2016
11 - CCA	Dubina,Joel F.	Senior	10/26/2013	Kallon,Abdul K.	02/11/2016
11 - FL-M	Steele,John E.	Senior	06/03/2015	Barksdale,Patricia D.	04/28/2016
11 - FL-M	Conway,Anne C.	Senior	08/01/2015	Jung,William F.	04/28/2016
11 - FL-N	Hinkle,Robert L.	Senior	11/07/2016
11 - FL-N	Smoak,Richard	Senior	12/31/2015	Lammens,Philip R.	04/28/2016
11 - FL-S	Cohn,James I.	Senior	08/05/2016
11 - FL-S	Rosenbaum,Robin S.	Elevated	05/12/2014	Flores,Mary Barzee	02/26/2015
11 - GA-M	Royal,Charles Ashley	Senior	09/01/2016
11 - GA-N	Carnes,Julie E.	Elevated	07/21/2014	Lopez,Dax Eric	07/30/2015
CL	Block,Lawrence J.	Retired	01/08/2016
CL	Damich,Edward J.	Senior	10/21/2013	Bonilla,Armando Omar	01/07/2015
CL	Firestone,Nancy B.	Senior	10/21/2013	Firestone,Nancy B.	01/07/2015
CL	Bush,Lynn J.	Senior	10/21/2013	Halkowski,Thomas L.	01/07/2015
CL	Hewitt,Emily C.	Retired	10/21/2013	McCarthy,Patricia M.	01/07/2015
CL	Miller,George W.	Retired	08/06/2013	Somers,Jeri Kaylene	01/07/2015
DC - DC	Roberts,Richard W.	Senior	03/16/2016	Edelman,Todd E.	04/28/2016
DC - DC	Walton,Reggie B.	Senior	12/31/2015	Pan,Florence Y.	04/28/2016
DC - DC	Collyer,Rosemary M.	Senior	05/18/2016	Qureshi,Abid Riaz	09/06/2016
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
SC	Scalia,Antonin	Deceased	02/13/2016	Garland,Merrick B.	03/16/2016

Total Vacancies:112

Total Nominees Pending:59

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