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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: Succession Chart

March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	April 17, 1902 32 Stat. 106	June 18, 1910 36 Stat. 539¹	June 18, 1910 36 Stat. 539²	January 17, 1929 45 Stat. 1081	May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584
Wallace, William J. 1891-1907	Lacombe, Emile H. 1891-1916	Shipman, Nathaniel 1892-1902	Coxe, Alfred C., Sr. 1902-1917	Knapp, Martin A. 1910-1916	Mack, Julian W. 1929-1940	Chase, Harrie B. 1929-1954	Clark, Charles E. 1939-1963
Ward, Henry G. 1907-1921	Hough, Charles M. 1916-1927	Townsend, William K. 1902-1907	Manton, Martin T. 1918-1939			Waterman, Sterry R. 1955-1970	Anderson, Robert P. 1964-1971
Mayer, Julius M. 1921-1924	Hand, Augustus N. 1927-1953	Noyes, Walter C. 1907-1913	Patterson, Robert P., Sr. 1939-1940			Oakes, James L. 1971-1992	Timbers, William H. 1971-1981
Hand, Learned 1924-1951	Harlan, John Marshall (II) 1954-1955	Rogers, Henry W. 1913-1926	Frank, Jerome N. 1941-1957			Parker, Fred I. 1994-2003	Pratt, George C. 1982-1993
Medina, Harold R. 1951-1958	Lumbard, Joseph E. 1955-1971	Swan, Thomas W. 1926-1953	Moore, Leonard P. 1957-1971			Hall, Peter W. 2004-2021	Leval, Pierre N. 1993-2002
Friendly, Henry J. 1959-1974	Mulligan, William H. 1971-1981	Hincks, Carroll C. 1953-1959	Mansfield, Walter R. 1971-1981			Robinson, Beth 2021-	Wesley, Richard C. 2003-2016
Van Graafeiland, Ellsworth A. 1974-1985	Cardamone, Richard J. 1981-1993	Smith, John J. 1960-1971	Winter, Ralph K., Jr. 1981-2000				Sullivan, Richard J. 2018-
Altimari, Frank X. 1985-1996	Cabranes, José A. 1994-2023	Meskill, Thomas J. 1975-1993	Parker, Barrington D., Jr. 2001-2009
Pooler, Rosemary S. 1998-2022	Kahn, Maria A. 2023-	Calabresi, Guido 1994-2009	Carney, Susan L. 2011-2022
Nathan, Alison J. 2022-		Droney, Christopher F. 2011-2019	Merriam, Sarah A. L. 2022-
		Nardini, William J. 2019-

May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333
Kaufman, Irving R. 1961-1987	Hays, Paul R. 1961-1974	Marshall, Thurgood 1961-1965	Newman, Jon O. 1979-1997	Kearse, Amalya L. 1979-2002	Miner, Roger J. 1985-1997	Mahoney, J. Daniel 1986-1996
Walker, John M., Jr. 1989-2006	Gurfein, Murray I. 1974-1979	Feinberg, Wilfred 1966-1991	Katzmann, Robert A. 1999-2021	Raggi, Reena 2002-2018	Sack, Robert D. 1998-2009	Sotomayor, Sonia 1998-2009
Livingston, Debra A. 2007-	Pierce, Lawrence W. 1981-1990	Jacobs, Dennis G. 1992-2019	Lee, Eunice C. 2021-	Bianco, Joseph F. 2019-	Chin, Denny 2010-2021	Lohier, Raymond J., Jr. 2010-
	McLaughlin, Joseph M. 1990-1998	Menashi, Steven J. 2019-			Pérez, Myrna 2021-
	Straub, Chester J. 1998-2008
	Lynch, Gerard E. 2009-2016
	Park, Michael H. 2019-
1. The act of June 18, 1910, 36 Stat. 539, created the Commerce Court and provided for each of its five judges to serve simultaneously as a circuit judge. In accordance with the statute, President William H. Taft appointed Martin Knapp to the Second Circuit. In 1916, Chief Justice Edward D. White, pursuant to his authority under the same statute, reassigned Judge Knapp to the Fourth Circuit. 2. In accordance with the act of June 18, 1910, 36 Stat. 539, President William H. Taft appointed Commerce Court Judge Julian Mack to the Seventh Circuit. As Chief Justice, pursuant to his authority under the same statute, Taft reassigned Judge Mack to the Second and Sixth Circuits in 1929. In 1930, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes reassigned Mack to the Second Circuit exclusively.

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