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Judicial Vacancy List for January 2023

Vacancies in the Federal Judiciary

117th Congress

Last updated on01/01/2023

Total Vacancies:86

Total Nominees Pending:38

Court	Incumbent	Vacancy Reason	Vacancy Date	Nominee	Nomination Date
01 - CCA	Howard,Jeffrey R.	Senior	03/31/2022
01 - CCA	Lynch,Sandra L.	Senior	12/31/2022	Rikelman,Julie	08/01/2022
01 - MA	Hillman,Timothy S.	Senior	07/01/2022	Guzman,Margaret R.	07/13/2022
01 - MA	O'Toole Jr.,George A.	Senior	01/01/2018	Joun,Myong J.	08/01/2022
01 - MA	Young,William G.	Senior	07/01/2021	Kobick,Julia E.	08/01/2022
01 - PR	Cerezo,Carmen Consuelo	Retired	02/28/2021	Mendez-Miro,Gina R.	06/15/2022
02 - CT	Merriam,Sarah A. L.	Elevated	09/15/2022
02 - CT	Underhill,Stefan R.	Senior	11/01/2022
02 - NY-E	Bianco,Joseph F.	Elevated	05/08/2019	Choudhury,Nusrat Jahan	01/19/2022
02 - NY-E	Kuntz II,William Francis	Senior	01/01/2022	Merchant,Orelia Eleta	09/06/2022
02 - NY-E		New Position*	02/01/2021	Merle,Natasha C.	01/19/2022
02 - NY-E	Matsumoto,Kiyo A.	Senior	07/23/2022	Reyes Jr.,Ramon Ernesto	09/06/2022
02 - NY-S	McMahon,Colleen	Senior	04/10/2021	Clarke,Jessica G. L.	12/15/2021
02 - NY-S	Forrest,Katherine B.	Resigned	09/11/2018	Ho,Dale E.	01/04/2022
02 - NY-S	Nathan,Alison J.	Elevated	03/23/2022	Subramanian,Arun	09/06/2022
03 - CCA	Smith,D. Brooks	Senior	12/04/2021	Chung,Cindy K.	07/12/2022
03 - NJ	Hillman,Noel Lawrence	Senior	04/04/2022
03 - PA-E	Rufe,Cynthia M.	Senior	12/31/2021
03 - PA-M	Jones III,John E.	Retired	08/01/2021
03 - PA-M	Mariani,Robert D.	Senior	09/30/2022
04 - CCA	Motz,Diana Gribbon	Senior	09/30/2022
04 - CCA	Floyd,Henry F.	Senior	12/31/2021	Benjamin,DeAndrea Gist	09/06/2022
04 - MD	Grimm,Paul W.	Senior	12/11/2022
04 - SC	Childs,J. Michelle	Elevated	07/19/2022
04 - VA-E	Jackson,Raymond Alvin	Senior	11/23/2021	Walker,Jamar K.	07/13/2022
04 - VA-W	Jones,James P.	Senior	08/30/2021	Ballou,Robert Stewart	07/13/2022
05 - CCA	Costa,Gregg Jeffrey	Resigned	08/31/2022
05 - LA-E	Barbier,Carl J.	Senior	01/01/2023
05 - LA-E	Feldman,Martin L. C.	Deceased	01/26/2022
05 - LA-W	Foote,Elizabeth E.	Senior	01/21/2022
05 - LA-W	Juneau,Michael Joseph	Senior	02/01/2022
05 - MS-N	Mills,Michael P.	Senior	11/01/2021	Colom,Scott Winston	11/15/2022
05 - TX-S	Gilmore,Vanessa D.	Retired	01/02/2022
05 - TX-W	Montalvo,Frank	Senior	12/01/2022
05 - TX-W	Martinez,Philip R.	Deceased	02/26/2021
06 - MI-E	Davis,Stephanie Dawkins	Elevated	05/24/2022
06 - MI-E	Drain,Gershwin A.	Senior	08/13/2022
06 - MI-E	Hood,Denise Page	Senior	05/01/2022	Grey,Jonathan James Canada	09/06/2022
06 - TN-W	Fowlkes Jr.,John Thomas	Senior	09/01/2022
07 - CCA	Kanne,Michael S.	Deceased	06/16/2022
07 - IL-N	Feinerman,Gary	Resigned	12/31/2022
07 - IL-N	Norgle Sr.,Charles R.	Senior	10/04/2022
07 - IL-N		New Position*	12/05/2022
07 - IL-N	Lee,John Z.	Elevated	09/07/2022	Jenkins,Lindsay C.	09/19/2022
07 - IN-N	Springmann,Theresa Lazar	Senior	01/23/2021
07 - WI-E	Griesbach,William C.	Senior	12/31/2019	Pocan,William S.	12/15/2021
08 - AR-W	Holmes III,Paul Kinloch	Senior	11/10/2021
08 - SD	Viken,Jeffrey L.	Senior	10/01/2021
09 - AK	Burgess,Timothy	Senior	12/31/2021
09 - CA-C	Phillips,Virginia Anne	Senior	02/14/2022
09 - CA-C	Kronstadt,John A.	Senior	04/01/2022
09 - CA-C	O'Connell,Beverly Reid	Deceased	10/08/2017	Kato,Kenly Kiya	12/15/2021
09 - CA-C	Morrow,Margaret M.	Senior	10/29/2015	Vera,Hernan D.	01/04/2022
09 - CA-E	Mendez,John A.	Senior	04/17/2022	Calabretta,Daniel J.	08/01/2022
09 - CA-N	Chen,Edward M.	Senior	05/17/2022	Lin,Rita F.	08/01/2022
09 - CA-N	White,Jeffrey Steven	Senior	02/01/2021	Martinez-Olguin,Araceli	08/01/2022
09 - CA-N	Koh,Lucy H.	Elevated	12/13/2021	Pitts,P. Casey	09/06/2022
09 - CA-S	Hayes,William Q.	Senior	08/01/2021
09 - CA-S	Burns,Larry A.	Senior	01/22/2021	Schopler,Andrew G.	07/14/2022
09 - CA-S	Battaglia,Anthony J.	Senior	03/31/2021	Simmons Jr.,James Edward	07/14/2022
09 - ID	Winmill,B. Lynn	Senior	08/16/2021
09 - OR	Mosman,Michael W.	Senior	12/27/2021	Nelson,Adrienne C.	07/14/2022
09 - WA-E	Mendoza Jr.,Salvador	Elevated	09/12/2022	Bjelkengren,Charnelle	09/19/2022
09 - WA-W	Settle,Benjamin Hale	Senior	01/01/2020	Cartwright,Tiffany M.	01/19/2022
09 - WA-W	Martinez,Ricardo S.	Senior	09/05/2022	Evanson,Kymberly Kathryn	07/13/2022
09 - WA-W	Jones,Richard A.	Senior	09/05/2022	Whitehead,Jamal N.	07/13/2022
10 - CCA	Briscoe,Mary Beck	Senior	03/15/2021	Wamble,Jabari Brooks	09/06/2022
10 - KS	Robinson,Julie A.	Senior	01/14/2022
10 - NM	Herrera,Judith C.	Senior	07/01/2019	Garcia,Matthew L.	07/14/2022
10 - OK-N	Dowdell,John E.	Senior	06/21/2021
10 - OK-N	Eagan,Claire V.	Senior	10/01/2022
10 - UT	Nuffer,David O.	Senior	04/02/2022
10 - WY	Freudenthal,Nancy D.	Senior	06/01/2022
11 - AL-M	Brasher,Andrew Lynn	Elevated	02/11/2020
11 - AL-N	Kallon,Abdul K.	Resigned	08/31/2022
11 - CCA	Martin,Beverly B.	Retired	09/30/2021	Abudu,Nancy G.	01/10/2022
11 - FL-M	Dalton Jr.,Roy Bale	Senior	07/09/2022
11 - FL-S	Ungaro,Ursula	Senior	05/02/2021
11 - FL-S	Cooke,Marcia G.	Senior	07/15/2022
11 - FL-S	Moreno,Federico A.	Senior	07/17/2020
CL	Braden,Susan G.	Senior	07/13/2018
CL	Griggsby,Lydia Kay	Elevated	06/16/2021
DC - CCA	Rogers,Judith W.	Senior	09/01/2022	Garcia,Bradley N.	06/15/2022
DC - DC	Pan,Florence Y.	Elevated	09/20/2022	Edelman,Todd E.	09/27/2022
IT	Stanceu,Timothy C.	Senior	04/05/2021
IT	Gordon,Leo M.	Senior	03/22/2019

Total Vacancies:86

Total Nominees Pending:38

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