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Judicial Vacancy List for October 2017
| Court | Incumbent | Vacancy Reason | Vacancy Date | Nominee | Nomination Date |
| 01 - MA | Woodlock,Douglas P. | Senior | 06/01/2015 | | |
| 01 - ME | Woodcock Jr.,John A. | Senior | 06/27/2017 | | |
| 01 - PR | Fuste,Jose Antonio | Retired | 06/01/2016 | | |
| 01 - RI | Lisi,Mary M. | Senior | 10/01/2015 | | |
| 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 | Feuerstein,Sandra J. | Senior | 01/21/2015 | | |
| 02 - NY-E | Gleeson,John | Resigned | 03/09/2016 | | |
| 02 - NY-E | Vitaliano,Eric N. | Senior | 02/28/2017 | | |
| 02 - NY-E | Amon,Carol Bagley | Senior | 11/30/2016 | | |
| 02 - NY-N | Sharpe,Gary L. | Senior | 01/01/2016 | | |
| 02 - NY-S | Crotty,Paul A. | Senior | 08/01/2015 | | |
| 02 - NY-S | Castel,P. Kevin | Senior | 08/05/2017 | | |
| 02 - NY-S | Preska,Loretta A. | Senior | 03/01/2017 | | |
| 02 - NY-W | Skretny,William M. | Senior | 03/08/2015 | | |
| 03 - CCA | Fisher,D. Michael | Senior | 02/01/2017 | | |
| 03 - CCA | Fuentes,Julio M. | Senior | 07/18/2016 | | |
| 03 - CCA | Rendell,Marjorie O. | Senior | 07/01/2015 | Bibas,Stephanos | 06/19/2017 |
| 03 - DE | Robinson,Sue L. | Senior | 02/03/2017 | | |
| 03 - DE | Sleet,Gregory M. | Senior | 05/01/2017 | | |
| 03 - NJ | Simandle,Jerome B. | Senior | 05/31/2017 | | |
| 03 - NJ | Martini,William J. | Senior | 02/10/2015 | | |
| 03 - NJ | Hochberg,Faith S. | Retired | 03/06/2015 | | |
| 03 - PA-E | McLaughlin,Mary A. | Senior | 11/18/2013 | | |
| 03 - PA-E | Gardner,James Knoll | Senior | 04/03/2017 | | |
| 03 - PA-E | Restrepo,Luis Felipe | Elevated | 01/11/2016 | | |
| 03 - PA-E | Davis,Legrome D. | Senior | 09/28/2017 | | |
| 03 - PA-W | Lancaster,Gary L. | Deceased | 04/24/2013 | | |
| 03 - PA-W | McLaughlin,Sean J. | Resigned | 08/16/2013 | | |
| 03 - PA-W | Gibson,Kim R. | Senior | 06/03/2016 | | |
| 03 - PA-W | McVerry,Terrence F. | Senior | 09/30/2013 | | |
| 04 - MD | Quarles Jr.,William D. | Retired | 02/01/2016 | | |
| 04 - NC-E | Howard,Malcolm J. | Senior | 12/31/2005 | Farr,Thomas Alvin | 07/13/2017 |
| 04 - NC-W | Voorhees,Richard L. | Senior | 08/31/2017 | | |
| 04 - SC | Anderson Jr.,Joseph F. | Senior | 11/16/2014 | Coggins Jr.,Donald C. | 08/03/2017 |
| 04 - SC | Currie,Cameron McGowan | Senior | 10/03/2013 | Quattlebaum Jr.,A. Marvin | 08/03/2017 |
| 04 - VA-E | Lee,Gerald Bruce | Retired | 09/30/2017 | | |
| 04 - WV-N | Keeley,Irene M. | Senior | 08/12/2017 | | |
| 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 | | |
| 05 - LA-W | Minaldi,Patricia H. | Senior | 07/31/2017 | | |
| 05 - LA-W | Doherty,Rebecca F. | Senior | 06/05/2017 | | |
| 05 - LA-W | James,Robert G. | Senior | 05/31/2016 | Doughty,Terry A. | 08/03/2017 |
| 05 - LA-W | Haik,Richard T. | Senior | 03/06/2015 | Juneau,Michael Joseph | 08/03/2017 |
| 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 | Mateer,Jeffrey Carl | 09/07/2017 |
| 05 - TX-N | Cummings,Samuel Ray | Senior | 12/31/2014 | | |
| 05 - TX-N | Means,Terry | Senior | 07/03/2013 | | |
| 05 - TX-N | Robinson,Mary Lou | Senior | 02/03/2016 | Kacsmaryk,Matthew J. | 09/07/2017 |
| 05 - TX-N | Solis,Jorge A. | Retired | 05/01/2016 | Scholer,Karen Gren | 09/07/2017 |
| 05 - TX-S | Jack,Janis Graham | Senior | 06/01/2011 | | |
| 05 - TX-S | Costa,Gregg Jeffrey | Elevated | 05/20/2014 | Rodriguez Jr.,Fernando | 09/07/2017 |
| 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 | 09/11/2017 |
| 06 - KY-E | Coffman,Jennifer B. | Retired | 01/08/2013 | Boom,Claria Horn | 06/12/2017 |
| 06 - KY-E | Thapar,Amul R. | Elevated | 05/25/2017 | Wier,Robert Earl | 08/03/2017 |
| 06 - KY-W | Heyburn II,John G. | Senior | 04/01/2014 | Jennings,Rebecca Grady | 09/07/2017 |
| 06 - MI-E | Rosen,Gerald E. | Senior | 10/26/2016 | | |
| 06 - MI-W | Bell,Robert Holmes | Senior | 01/31/2017 | | |
| 06 - OH-N | Nugent,Donald C. | Senior | 01/01/2017 | | |
| 06 - OH-S | Frost,Gregory L. | Retired | 05/02/2016 | | |
| 06 - OH-S | Rose,Thomas M. | Senior | 06/30/2017 | | |
| 06 - TN-M | Sharp,Kevin Hunter | Resigned | 04/15/2017 | Campbell Jr.,William L. | 07/13/2017 |
| 06 - TN-M | Campbell,Todd J. | Senior | 12/01/2016 | Richardson,Eli Jeremy | 07/13/2017 |
| 06 - TN-W | Breen,J. Daniel | Senior | 03/18/2017 | Norris Sr.,Mark Saalfield | 07/13/2017 |
| 06 - TN-W | Mays Jr.,Samuel H. | Senior | 07/01/2015 | Parker,Thomas Lee Robinson | 07/13/2017 |
| 07 - CCA | Williams,Ann C. | Senior | 06/05/2017 | | |
| 07 - CCA | Posner,Richard A. | Retired | 09/02/2017 | | |
| 07 - CCA | Tinder,John Daniel | Senior | 02/18/2015 | Barrett,Amy Coney | 05/08/2017 |
| 07 - CCA | Evans,Terence T. | Senior | 01/07/2010 | Brennan,Michael B. | 08/03/2017 |
| 07 - IL-N | Zagel,James B. | Senior | 10/21/2016 | | |
| 07 - IL-N | Darrah,John W. | Senior | 03/01/2017 | | |
| 07 - IN-N | Van Bokkelen,Joseph S | Senior | 09/29/2017 | | |
| 07 - IN-N | Miller Jr.,Robert L. | Senior | 01/11/2016 | | |
| 07 - IN-S | Barker,Sarah Evans | Senior | 06/30/2014 | | |
| 07 - WI-E | Randa,Rudolph T. | Senior | 02/05/2016 | | |
| 08 - CCA | Riley,William Jay | Senior | 06/30/2017 | Grasz,Leonard Steven | 08/03/2017 |
| 08 - CCA | Murphy,Diana E. | Senior | 11/29/2016 | Stras,David Ryan | 05/08/2017 |
| 08 - IA-N | Reade,Linda R. | Senior | 10/01/2017 | | |
| 08 - MN | Montgomery,Ann D. | Senior | 05/31/2016 | | |
| 08 - MN | Frank,Donovan W. | Senior | 10/31/2016 | | |
| 08 - MO-E | Jackson,Carol E. | Retired | 08/31/2017 | | |
| 08 - ND | Erickson,Ralph R. | Elevated | 09/28/2017 | | |
| 09 - AK | Beistline,Ralph R. | Senior | 12/31/2015 | | |
| 09 - AZ | Bolton,Susan R. | Senior | 09/01/2016 | | |
| 09 - AZ | Wake,Neil Vincent | Senior | 07/05/2016 | | |
| 09 - CA-C | Collins,Audrey B. | Retired | 08/01/2014 | | |
| 09 - CA-C | Pregerson,Dean D. | Senior | 01/28/2016 | | |
| 09 - CA-C | Snyder,Christina A. | Senior | 11/23/2016 | | |
| 09 - CA-C | King,George H. | Retired | 01/06/2017 | | |
| 09 - CA-C | Morrow,Margaret M. | Senior | 10/29/2015 | | |
| 09 - CA-S | Huff,Marilyn L. | Senior | 09/30/2016 | | |
| 09 - CCA | Silverman,Barry G. | Senior | 10/11/2016 | | |
| 09 - CCA | Pregerson,Harry | Senior | 12/11/2015 | | |
| 09 - CCA | Clifton,Richard R. | Senior | 12/31/2016 | | |
| 09 - CCA | O'Scannlain,Diarmuid F. | Senior | 12/31/2016 | Bounds,Ryan Wesley | 09/07/2017 |
| 09 - HI | Mollway,Susan Oki | Senior | 11/06/2015 | | |
| 09 - NV | Jones,Robert Clive | Senior | 02/01/2016 | | |
| 09 - OR | Brown,Anna J. | Senior | 07/27/2017 | | |
| 09 - WA-W | Lasnik,Robert S. | Senior | 01/27/2016 | | |
| 09 - WA-W | Pechman,Marsha J. | Senior | 02/06/2016 | | |
| 09 - WA-W | Robart,James L. | Senior | 06/28/2016 | | |
| 10 - CCA | Gorsuch,Neil M. | Elevated | 04/07/2017 | Eid,Allison H. | 06/07/2017 |
| 10 - CO | Blackburn,Robert E. | Senior | 04/12/2016 | | |
| 10 - KS | Marten,John Thomas | Senior | 05/01/2017 | Broomes,John Wesley | 09/07/2017 |
| 10 - KS | Vratil,Kathryn H. | Senior | 04/22/2014 | Teeter,Holly Lou | 08/03/2017 |
| 10 - OK-E | Payne,James H. | Senior | 08/01/2017 | | |
| 10 - OK-W | Russell,David L. | Senior | 07/07/2013 | | |
| 10 - OK-W | Cauthron,Robin J. | Senior | 07/14/2015 | Goodwin,Charles Barnes | 07/13/2017 |
| 10 - OK-W | Friot,Stephen P. | Senior | 12/01/2014 | Palk,Scott L. | 05/08/2017 |
| 10 - UT | Stewart,Brian T. | Senior | 09/01/2014 | Nielson Jr.,Howard C. | 09/28/2017 |
| 11 - AL-M | Thompson,Myron H. | Senior | 08/22/2013 | Marks,Emily Coody | 09/07/2017 |
| 11 - AL-M | Fuller,Mark E. | Resigned | 08/01/2015 | Talley,Brett Joseph | 09/07/2017 |
| 11 - AL-N | Blackburn,Sharon Lovelace | Senior | 05/08/2015 | Axon,Annemarie Carney | 07/19/2017 |
| 11 - AL-N | Smith Jr.,C. Lynwood | Senior | 08/31/2013 | Burke,Liles Clifton | 07/19/2017 |
| 11 - AL-S | Granade,Callie V.S. | Senior | 03/07/2016 | Beaverstock,Jeffrey Uhlman | 09/07/2017 |
| 11 - AL-S | Steele,William H. | Senior | 06/08/2017 | Moorer,Terry Fitzgerald | 09/07/2017 |
| 11 - FL-M | Whittemore,James D. | Senior | 08/29/2017 | | |
| 11 - FL-M | Steele,John E. | Senior | 06/03/2015 | | |
| 11 - FL-M | Conway,Anne C. | Senior | 08/01/2015 | | |
| 11 - FL-N | Hinkle,Robert L. | Senior | 11/07/2016 | | |
| 11 - FL-N | Smoak,Richard | Senior | 12/31/2015 | | |
| 11 - FL-S | Marra,Kenneth A. | Senior | 08/01/2017 | | |
| 11 - FL-S | Cohn,James I. | Senior | 08/05/2016 | | |
| 11 - FL-S | Lenard,Joan A. | Senior | 07/01/2017 | | |
| 11 - FL-S | Zloch,William J. | Senior | 01/31/2017 | | |
| 11 - FL-S | Rosenbaum,Robin S. | Elevated | 05/12/2014 | | |
| 11 - GA-M | Royal,Charles Ashley | Senior | 09/01/2016 | Self III,Tilman Eugene | 07/13/2017 |
| 11 - GA-N | Carnes,Julie E. | Elevated | 07/21/2014 | Brown,Michael Lawrence | 07/13/2017 |
| 11 - GA-N | Murphy,Harold L. | Senior | 03/31/2017 | Ray II,William M. | 07/13/2017 |
| 11 - GA-S | Moore Jr.,William T. | Senior | 02/28/2017 | Baker,R. Stan | 09/07/2017 |
| CL | Block,Lawrence J. | Retired | 01/08/2016 | | |
| CL | Hewitt,Emily C. | Retired | 10/21/2013 | | |
| CL | Damich,Edward J. | Senior | 10/21/2013 | | |
| CL | Firestone,Nancy B. | Senior | 10/21/2013 | Holte,Ryan T. | 09/28/2017 |
| CL | Miller,George W. | Retired | 08/06/2013 | Schiff,Damien Michael | 05/08/2017 |
| CL | Bush,Lynn J. | Senior | 10/21/2013 | Schwartz,Stephen S. | 06/07/2017 |
| DC - CCA | Brown,Janice Rogers | Retired | 08/31/2017 | Katsas,Gregory G. | 09/07/2017 |
| DC - DC | Walton,Reggie B. | Senior | 12/31/2015 | Friedrich,Dabney Langhorne | 06/07/2017 |
| DC - DC | Leon,Richard J. | Senior | 12/31/2016 | McFadden,Trevor N. | 06/07/2017 |
| DC - DC | Roberts,Richard W. | Senior | 03/16/2016 | Petersen,Matthew Spencer | 09/11/2017 |
| IT | Pogue,Donald C. | Senior | 07/01/2014 | | |
| IT | Eaton,Richard K. | Senior | 08/22/2014 | | |