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U.S. Court of Federal Claims: Succession Chart

October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27
Colaianni, Joseph V.¹ 1982-1984	Fletcher, Lloyd^{1, 2} 1982	Harkins, Kenneth R.¹ 1982-1986	Hogenson, Roald A.^{1, 2} 1982-1983	Lydon, Thomas J.¹ 1982-1987	Merow, James F.¹ 1982-1983	Miller, Philip R.¹ 1982-1986
Smith, Loren A. 1985-2000		Napier, John L. 1986-1989		Andewelt, Roger B. 1987-2001	Merow, James F. 1983-1998	Futey, Bohdan A. 1987-2002
Wilson, Sarah L. 2001-2002		Hodges, Robert H., Jr. 1990-2005		Braden, Susan G. 2003-2018	Damich, Edward J. 1998-2013	Wolski, Victor J. 2003-2018
Williams, Mary Ellen C. 2003-2018		Sweeney, Margaret M. 2005-2020		Silfen, Molly R. 2023-	Bonilla, Armando O. 2022-	Dietz, Thompson M. 2020-
Roumel, Eleni M. 2020-		Lerner, Carolyn N. 2022-

October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27
Schwartz, David¹ 1982	Seto, Robert M.M.¹ 1982-1987	Spector, Louis¹ 1982-1983	Wiese, John P.¹ 1982-1986	Willi, George III^{1, 2} 1982	Wood, Harry E.¹ 1982-1986	Yannello, Judith A.¹ 1982-1987
Miller, Christine O.C. 1982-1997	Rader, Randall R. 1988-1990	Tidwell, Moody R. III 1983-1998	Wiese, John P. 1986-2001		Bruggink, Eric G. 1986-2001	Robinson, Wilkes C. 1987-1997
Miller, Christine O.C. 1997-2013	Sypolt, Diane G. 1990-2005	Firestone, Nancy B. 1998-2013	Lettow, Charles F. 2003-2018		Block, Lawrence J. 2002-2016	Bush, Lynn J. 1998-2013
Kaplan, Elaine D. 2013-	Wheeler, Thomas C. 2005-2020	Holte, Ryan T. 2019-	Davis, Kathryn C. 2020-		Meyers, Edward H. 2020-	Tapp, David A. 2019-
	Somers, Zachary N. 2020-

October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27	October 1, 1982 96 Stat. 27
Yock, Robert J.¹ 1982-1983	Kozinski, Alex 1982-1985	White, Mastin G.³ 1982	Gibson, Reginald W.² 1982-1995	Margolis, Lawrence S.² 1982-1997	Mayer, H. Robert ² 1982-1987
Yock, Robert J. 1983-1998	Horn, Marian B. 1986-2001		Baskir, Lawrence M. 1998-2013	Allegra, Francis M. 1998-2013	Turner, James T. 1987-2002
Hewitt, Emily C. 1998-2013	Horn, Marian B. 2003-2018		Campbell-Smith, Patricia E. 2013-2023	Griggsby, Lydia K. 2014-2021	Miller, George W. 2003-2013
Solomson, Matthew H. 2020-	Schwartz, Stephen S. 2020-		Meriweather, Robin M. 2024-	Hadji, Philip S. 2023-	Hertling, Richard A. 2019-
1. Fifteen judges were appointed pursuant to the act of April 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 27, which provided that the commissioners (also known as trial judges) of the U.S. Court of Claims would become judges of the newly-established U.S. Claims Court on October 1, 1982, the effective date of the statute. Alex Kozinski, one of the court's original sixteen judges and its first chief judge, had served as chief trial judge of the U.S. Court of Claims since August 1982, but did not receive a stautory appointment to the new court. Instead, he was nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. 2. No successors to original judges Lloyd Fletcher, Roald Hogenson, or George Willi -- all of whom retired shortly after the new court began operations -- were ever formally designated. Reginald Gibson, Lawrence Margolis, and H. Robert Mayer were appointed to "new" seats, despite not having been among the court's original sixteen judges. 3. Mastin White, a senior trial judge on the U.S. Court of Claims, was appointed a senior judge of the new court pursuant to the act of April 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 27, although the statute made no specific provision for such an appointment. Shortly thereafter, White received a presidential recess appointment as a judge in regular active service. He served in this capacity for nine days before once again assuming senior status. No successor to Judge White was ever designated.

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