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U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas: Succession Chart

January 29, 1861 12 Stat. 126	February 25, 1919 (effective January 7, 1928) 40 Stat. 1156²	October 16, 1945 59 Stat. 545	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089⁴
Williams, Archibald 1861-1863	McDermott, George T. 1928-1929	Mellott, Arthur J. 1945-1957	Hill, Delmas C. 1949-1961	Templar, Henry G. 1962-1974	Theis, Frank G. 1967-1981	Saffels, Dale E. 1979-1990	Belot, Monti L. 1991-2008
Delahay, Mark W. 1863-1873	Hopkins, Richard J. 1929-1943	Stanley, Arthur J., Jr. 1958-1971	Brown, Wesley E. 1962-1979	Rogers, Richard D. 1975-1989	Crow, Sam A. 1981-1996	Lungstrom, John W. 1991-2010	Melgren, Eric F. 2008-
Foster, Cassius G. 1874-1899	Helvering, Guy T.³ 1943-1946	O'Connor, Earl E. 1971-1992	Kelly, Patrick F. 1980-1995	VanBebber, G. Thomas 1989-2000	Murguia, Carlos 1999-2020	Crabtree, Daniel D. 2014-
Hook, William C. 1899-1903		Vratil, Kathryn H. 1992-2014	Marten, John T. 1996-2017	Robinson, Julie A. 2001-2022	Crouse, Toby J. 2020-
Pollock, John C.¹ 1903-1937		Teeter, Holly L. 2018-	Broomes, John W. 2018-
1. On January 7, 1928, the president certified John Pollock involuntarily as disabled in accordance with the act of February 25, 1919, 40 Stat. 1156, which entitled the president to appoint an additional judge for the court and provided that no successor to the judge certified as disabled be appointed. 2. The act of February 25, 1919, 40 Stat. 1156, was made applicable to the District of Kansas on January 7, 1928, when the president certified Judge Pollock as disabled. George McDermott was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute. 3. The act of October 16, 1945, 59 Stat. 545, authorized a temporary judgeship for the court and provided that the next vacancy in the district not be filled. In accordance with the statute, no successor to Guy Helvering was appointed. 4. The act of December 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5089, authorized a temporary judgeship for the court, extended most recently by the act of March 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 542, which provided that the first vacancy in the district after May 21, 2025, not be filled.

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