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Judicial Vacancy List for August 2020

Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary

116th Congress

Last updated on08/01/2020

Total Vacancies:79

Total Nominees Pending:49

Court	Incumbent	Vacancy Reason	Vacancy Date	Nominee	Nomination Date
01 - MA	Woodlock,Douglas P.	Senior	06/01/2015
01 - MA	O'Toole Jr.,George A.	Senior	01/01/2018
02 - CT	Thompson,Alvin W.	Senior	08/31/2018	Jongbloed,Barbara Bailey	10/15/2019
02 - NY-E	Cogan,Brian M.	Senior	06/12/2020
02 - NY-E	Irizarry,Dora L.	Senior	01/26/2020
02 - NY-E	Gleeson,John	Resigned	03/09/2016	Gujarati,Diane	05/21/2019
02 - NY-E	Bianco,Joseph F.	Elevated	05/08/2019	Komatireddy,Saritha	05/04/2020
02 - NY-N	Sharpe,Gary L.	Senior	01/01/2016
02 - NY-S	Pauley III,William H.	Senior	03/01/2018	Cronan,John Peter	02/27/2020
02 - NY-S	Forrest,Katherine B.	Resigned	09/11/2018	Lan,Iris	05/04/2020
02 - NY-S	Sullivan,Richard J.	Elevated	10/11/2018	Rearden,Jennifer H.	05/04/2020
03 - NJ	Sheridan,Peter G.	Senior	06/14/2018
03 - NJ	Linares,Jose L.	Retired	05/16/2019
03 - NJ	Hochberg,Faith S.	Retired	03/06/2015
03 - NJ	Simandle,Jerome B.	Senior	05/31/2017
03 - NJ	Martini,William J.	Senior	02/10/2015
03 - NJ	Kugler,Robert B.	Senior	11/02/2018
03 - PA-E	Stengel,Lawrence F.	Retired	08/31/2018
03 - PA-W	Phipps,Peter J.	Elevated	07/16/2019	Wiegand,Christy Criswell	02/12/2020
04 - SC	Wooten,Terry L.	Senior	02/28/2019
04 - VA-E	O'Grady,Liam	Senior	05/01/2020
04 - VA-E	Smith,Rebecca Beach	Senior	08/01/2019	Young,Roderick C.	05/21/2020
04 - VA-W	Conrad,Glen E.	Senior	12/11/2017	Cullen,Thomas T.	02/04/2020
05 - MS-S	Starrett,Keith	Senior	04/30/2019	Johnson,Kristi Haskins	05/04/2020
05 - MS-S	Guirola Jr.,Louis	Senior	03/23/2018	McNeel,Taylor B.	07/02/2020
06 - KY-W	Walker,Justin R.	Elevated	06/18/2020
06 - MI-W	Bell,Robert Holmes	Senior	01/31/2017	Jarbou,Hala Y.	03/18/2020
06 - OH-N	Boyko,Christopher A.	Senior	01/06/2020	Calabrese,J. Philip	03/03/2020
06 - OH-N	Zouhary,Jack	Senior	07/01/2019	Knepp II,James Ray	03/03/2020
06 - OH-S	Barrett,Michael R.	Senior	02/15/2019	Newman,Michael Jay	03/03/2020
06 - TN-E	Mattice Jr.,Harry S.	Senior	03/10/2020
07 - IL-N	Kapala,Frederick J.	Senior	05/10/2019	Johnston,Iain D.	02/12/2020
07 - IL-N	Castillo,Ruben	Retired	09/27/2019	Valderrama,Franklin Ulyses	02/12/2020
07 - IL-S	Herndon,David R.	Retired	01/07/2019	Dugan,David W.	02/12/2020
07 - IL-S	Reagan,Michael J.	Retired	03/31/2019	McGlynn,Stephen P.	02/04/2020
07 - WI-E	Griesbach,William C.	Senior	12/31/2019
07 - WI-E	Randa,Rudolph T.	Senior	02/05/2016	Ludwig,Brett H.	03/03/2020
08 - MN	Ericksen,Joan N.	Senior	10/15/2019
09 - AZ	Collins,Raner	Senior	03/04/2019	Hinderaker,John Charles	12/02/2019
09 - CA-C	Selna,James V.	Senior	03/03/2020
09 - CA-C	Guilford,Andrew J.	Senior	07/05/2019
09 - CA-C	Otero,S. James	Senior	12/30/2018	Aenlle-Rocha,Fernando L.	01/09/2020
09 - CA-C	Collins,Audrey B.	Retired	08/01/2014	Blumenfeld,Jr.,Stanley	01/09/2020
09 - CA-C	Pregerson,Dean D.	Senior	01/28/2016	Holcomb,John W.	02/13/2020
09 - CA-C	O'Connell,Beverly Reid	Deceased	10/08/2017	Kim,Steve	02/13/2020
09 - CA-C	Snyder,Christina A.	Senior	11/23/2016	Leal,Sandy Nunes	02/13/2020
09 - CA-C	Real,Manuel L.	Senior	11/04/2018	Richmond,Rick Lloyd	02/13/2020
09 - CA-C	Morrow,Margaret M.	Senior	10/29/2015	Rosen,Jeremy Brooks	02/13/2020
09 - CA-C	King,George H.	Retired	01/06/2017	Scarsi,Mark C.	01/09/2020
09 - CA-E	O'Neill,Lawrence J.	Senior	02/02/2020	Arguelles,James P.	06/18/2020
09 - CA-E	England Jr.,Morrison C.	Senior	12/17/2019	Paloutzian,Dirk B.	05/21/2020
09 - CA-S	Benitez,Roger T.	Senior	12/31/2017	Braverman,Adam L.	02/13/2020
09 - CA-S	Houston,John A.	Senior	02/06/2018	Johnson,Knut Sveinbjorn	02/13/2020
09 - CA-S	Moskowitz,Barry Ted	Senior	01/23/2019	Matthews,R. Shireen	02/13/2020
09 - CA-S	Anello,Michael M.	Senior	10/31/2018	Pettit,Michelle M.	02/13/2020
09 - CA-S	Huff,Marilyn L.	Senior	09/30/2016	Robinson,Todd Wallace	02/13/2020
09 - NV	Jones,Robert Clive	Senior	02/01/2016
09 - NV	Mahan,James C.	Senior	06/29/2018	Togliatti,Jennifer P.	02/13/2020
09 - WA-W	Lasnik,Robert S.	Senior	01/27/2016
09 - WA-W	Robart,James L.	Senior	06/28/2016
09 - WA-W	Pechman,Marsha J.	Senior	02/06/2016
09 - WA-W	Leighton,Ronald B.	Senior	02/28/2019
09 - WA-W	Settle,Benjamin Hale	Senior	01/01/2020
10 - CO	Krieger,Marcia S.	Senior	03/03/2019
10 - KS	Murguia,Carlos	Resigned	04/01/2020	Crouse,Toby	05/21/2020
10 - NM	Brack,Robert	Senior	07/25/2018	Frederici III,Fred Joseph	06/18/2020
10 - NM	Herrera,Judith C.	Senior	07/01/2019	Saiz,Brenda M.	06/18/2020
11 - AL-M	Brasher,Andrew Lynn	Elevated	02/11/2020	LaCour Jr.,Edmund G.	06/02/2020
11 - FL-M	Covington,Virginia M. Hernandez	Senior	07/12/2020
11 - FL-S	Moreno,Federico A.	Senior	07/17/2020
11 - FL-S	Marra,Kenneth A.	Senior	08/01/2017	Cannon,Aileen Mercedes	05/21/2020
CL	Lettow,Charles Frederick	Senior	07/13/2018	Davis,Kathryn C.	02/04/2020
CL	Wolski,Victor J.	Senior	07/13/2018	Dietz,Thompson Michael	07/02/2020
CL	Damich,Edward J.	Senior	10/21/2013	Epstein,David Z.	02/04/2020
CL	Block,Lawrence J.	Retired	01/08/2016	Meyers,Edward Hulvey	01/06/2020
CL	Braden,Susan G.	Senior	07/13/2018	Obermann,Grace Karaffa	01/09/2020
CL	Horn,Marian Blank	Senior	03/09/2018	Schwartz,Stephen Sidney	01/09/2020
IT	Gordon,Leo M.	Senior	03/22/2019
IT	Ridgway,Delissa A.	Senior	01/31/2019	Vaden,Stephen A.	01/03/2020

Total Vacancies:79

Total Nominees Pending:49

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