Skip to main content

You are here

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

March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	February 18, 1895 28 Stat. 665	June 18, 1910 36 Stat. 539¹	March 1, 1929 45 Stat. 1414	August 2, 1935 49 Stat. 508	April 14, 1937 50 Stat. 64	April 14, 1937 50 Stat. 64
Sawyer, Lorenzo 1891	Gilbert, William B. 1892-1931	Ross, Erskine M. 1895-1925	Hunt, William H. 1911-1928	Wilbur, Curtis D. 1929-1945	Haney, Bert E. 1935-1943	Stephens, Albert L., Sr. 1937-1961	Healy, William 1937-1958
McKenna, Joseph 1892-1897	Denman, William 1935-1957	McCamant, Wallace 1925-1926		Orr, William E. 1945-1956	Bone, Homer T. 1944-1956	Duniway, Benjamin C. 1961-1976	Merrill, Charles M. 1959-1974
Morrow, William W. 1897-1923	Hamlin, Oliver D., Jr. 1958-1963	Dietrich, Frank S. 1927-1930		Barnes, Stanley N. 1956-1970	Hamley, Frederick G. 1956-1971	Hug, Procter R., Jr. 1977-2002	Kennedy, Anthony M. 1975-1988
Rudkin, Frank H. 1923-1931	Ely, Walter R., Jr. 1964-1979	Sawtelle, William H. 1931-1934		Choy, Herbert Y. C. 1971-1984	Sneed, Joseph T., III 1973-1987	Bybee, Jay S. 2003-2019	Rymer, Pamela A. 1989-2011
Garrecht, Francis A. 1933-1948	Norris, William A. 1980-1994	Mathews, Clifton 1935-1953		Brunetti, Melvin T. 1985-1999	Trott, Stephen S. 1988-2004	VanDyke, Lawrence J. C. 2020-	Watford, Paul J. 2012-2023
Pope, Walter L. 1949-1961	Fletcher, William A. 1998-2022	Fee, James A. 1954-1959		Rawlinson, Johnnie B. 2000-	Owens, John B. 2014-		de Alba, Ana I. 2023-
Browning, James R. 1961-2000	Thomas, Holly A. 2022-	Koelsch, Montgomery O. 1959-1976
Ikuta, Sandra S. 2006-		Anderson, J. Blaine 1976-1988
		Nelson, Thomas G. 1990-2003
		Smith, N. Randy 2007-2018
		Nelson, Ryan D. 2018-

February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8	February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Lemmon, Dal M. 1954-1958	Chambers, Richard H. 1954-1976	Hufstedler, Shirley A. M. 1968-1979	Wright, Eugene A. 1969-1983	Kilkenny, John F. 1969-1971	Trask, Ozell M. 1969-1979	Schroeder, Mary M. 1979-2011	Skopil, Otto R., Jr. 1979-1986
Jertberg, Gilbert H. 1958-1967	Tang, Thomas 1977-1993	Boochever, Robert 1980-1986	Beezer, Robert R. 1984-1996	Goodwin, Alfred T. 1971-1991	Canby, William C., Jr. 1980-1996	Hurwitz, Andrew D. 2012-2022	Leavy, Edward 1987-1997
Carter, James M. 1967-1971	Hawkins, Michael D. 1994-2010	O'Scannlain, Diarmuid F. 1986-2016	Gould, Ronald M. 1999-	Kleinfeld, Andrew J. 1991-2010	Silverman, Barry G. 1998-2016	Desai, Roopali H. 2022-	Graber, Susan 1998-2021
Wallace, J. Clifford 1972-1996	Murguia, Mary H. 2011-	Forrest, Danielle J. 2019-		Christen, Morgan 2012-	Bade, Bridget S. 2019-		Sung, Jennifer 2021-
Wardlaw, Kim M. 1998-

October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629
Fletcher, Betty B. 1979-1998	Farris, Joseph J. 1979-1995	Alarcón, Arthur L. 1979-1992	Pregerson, Harry 1979-2015	Ferguson, Warren J. 1979-1986	Poole, Cecil F. 1979-1996	Nelson, Dorothy W. 1979-1995	Reinhardt, Stephen R. 1980-2018
Tallman, Richard C. 2000-2018	McKeown, M. Margaret 1998-2022	Tashima, A. Wallace 1996-2004	Collins, Daniel P. 2019-	Fernandez, Ferdinand F. 1989-2002	Paez, Richard A. 2000-2021	Thomas, Sidney R. 1996-2023	Lee, Kenneth K. 2019-
Miller, Eric D. 2019-	Mendoza, Salvador, Jr. 2022-	Smith, Milan D., Jr. 2006-		Callahan, Consuelo M. 2003-	Koh, Lucy H. 2021-	Johnstone, Anthony D. 2023-

July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	January 7, 2008 121 Stat. 2534
Wiggins, Charles E. 1984-1996	Hall, Cynthia H. 1984-1997	Kozinski, Alex 1985-2017	Thompson, David R. 1985-1998	Noonan, John T., Jr. 1985-1996	Nguyen, Jacqueline H. 2012-
Bea, Carlos T. 2003-2019	Clifton, Richard R. 2002-2016	Bress, Daniel A. 2019-	Fisher, Raymond C. 1999-2013	Berzon, Marsha S. 2000-2022
Bumatay, Patrick J. 2019-	Bennett, Mark J. 2018-		Friedland, Michelle T. 2014-	Sanchez, Gabriel P. 2022-
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 William Hunt to the Ninth Circuit.

Select a Circuit