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

March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	February 23, 1899 30 Stat. 846	June 18, 1910 36 Stat. 539¹	June 10, 1930 46 Stat. 538	June 24, 1936 49 Stat. 1903	December 7, 1944 58 Stat. 796	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493
Acheson, Marcus W. 1891-1906	Dallas, George M. 1892-1909	Gray, George 1899-1914	Archbald, Robert W. 1911-1913	Thompson, Joseph W. 1931-1938	Biggs, John, Jr. 1937-1965	O'Connell, John J. 1945-1949	Hastie, William H. 1949-1971
Buffington, Joseph 1906-1938	Lanning, William M. 1909-1912	Woolley, Victor B. 1914-1938		Clark, William 1938-1942	Seitz, Collins J. 1966-1989	Staley, Austin L. 1950-1967	Rosen, James 1971-1972
Biddle, Francis 1939-1940	McPherson, John B. 1912-1919	Maris, Albert B. 1938-1958		McLaughlin, Gerald 1943-1968	Roth, Jane R. 1991-2006	Aldisert, Ruggero J. 1968-1986	Garth, Leonard I. 1973-1986
Goodrich, Herbert F. 1940-1962	Haight, Thomas G. 1919-1920	Forman, Phillip 1959-1961		Gibbons, John J. 1969-1990	Jordan, Kent A. 2006-	Scirica, Anthony J. 1987-2013	Greenberg, Morton I. 1987-2000
Freedman, Abraham L. 1964-1971	Davis, J. Warren 1920-1939	Smith, William F. 1961-1968		Alito, Samuel A., Jr. 1990-2006		Restrepo, Luis F. 2016-	Chertoff, Michael 2003-2005
Weis, Joseph F., Jr. 1973-1988	Jones, Charles A. 1939-1944	Hunter, James, III 1971-1986		Greenaway, Joseph A., Jr. 2010-2023			Chagares, Michael A. 2006-
Nygaard, Richard L. 1988-2005	Kalodner, Harry E. 1946-1969	Cowen, Robert E. 1987-1998
Hardiman, Thomas M. 2007-	Adams, Arlin M. 1969-1987	Fuentes, Julio M. 2000-2016
	Hutchinson, William D. 1987-1995	Matey, Paul B. 2019-
	Rendell, Marjorie O. 1997-2015
	Bibas, Stephanos 2017-

May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	June 18, 1968 82 Stat. 184	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Ganey, James C. 1961-1966	Stahl, David H. 1968-1970	Sloviter, Dolores K. 1979-2013	Mansmann, Carol L. 1985-2002	Stapleton, Walter K. 1985-1999	Lewis, Timothy K. 1992-1999	Sarokin, H. Lee 1994-1996
Van Dusen, Francis L. 1967-1977	Rosenn, Max 1970-1981	Krause, Cheryl A. 2014-	Fisher, D. Michael 2003-2017	Ambro, Thomas L. 2000-2023	Smith, D. Brooks 2002-2021	Barry, Maryanne T. 1999-2011
Higginbotham, A. Leon, Jr. 1977-1991	Becker, Edward R. 1981-2003		Porter, David J. 2018-	Montgomery-Reeves, Tamika R. 2023-	Chung, Cindy K. 2023-	Shwartz, Patty 2013-
McKee, Theodore A. 1994-2022	Van Antwerpen, Franklin S. 2004-2006
Freeman, Arianna J. 2022-	Vanaskie, Thomas I. 2010-2018
	Phipps, Peter J. 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 Robert Archbald to the Third Circuit.

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