Keep Track of President Biden's Nominations to the D.C. Judiciary

 

     Presidents appoint Supreme Court justices: everyone knows that. Presidents appoint federal judges to district and appeals courts. Probably fewer people know that. Presidents appoint judges to territorial and other courts: fewer still. Almost nobody knows that presidents appoint judges in Washington, D.C., and few probably care. Former President Donald Trump didn't seem to care much. The Republican who served before him, George W. Bush, appointed more judges to the D.C. courts than any president in U.S. history: 33. Trump, on the other hand, appointed just 10 while leaving more than a dozen vacancies. The D.C. system is composed of two courts, the Superior Court and the Appeals Court. If he is elected to serve two full terms, President Biden is guaranteed to appoint more than 33; if that is the case, he can secure a liberal majority on both of these courts until 2040. You can keep track of the nominees below, with those confirmed highlighted in yellow:

D.C. Appeals Court:

  1. John P. Howard III
  2. Loren AliKhan
  3. Vijay Shanker
  4. Carmen G. Iguina González
  5. Joseph R. Palmore

D.C. Superior Court: 

  1. Rupa Ranga Puttagunta
  2. Kenia Seoane Lopez
  3. Sean C. Staples
  4. Ebony M. Scott
  5. D.W. Tunnage
  6. Kendra D. Briggs
  7. Carl Ezekiel Ross
  8. Errol Rajesh Arthur
  9. Leslie A. Meek
  10. Laura Crane
  11. Veronica Sanchez
  12. Tanya Jones Bosier
  13. Danny Lam Nguyen
  14. Adrienne Jennings Noti
  15. Kenechukwu Onyemaechi Okocha
  16. Katherine E. Oler
  17. Judith E. Pipe
  18. Charles J. Willoughby, Jr.
  19. Sherri Beatty-Arthur
  20. Erin C. Johnston
  21. Ray D. McKenzie
  22. Rahkel Bouchet
  23. John Cruong Truong
  24. Vacancy #1
  25. Vacancy #2
     Four more vacancies will open up in 2025, two in 2026, four in 2027, and two in 2028. On the appeals court, one vacancy will open up in 2026 and two in 2027. 25 vacancies are guaranteed to be filled in two years alone; if President Biden is elected to two full terms, he will have the chance to appoint 15 more, a combined total of up to 40, which would be a historic record that no president would likely have the chance to top. 

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