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U.S. District Courts for the Districts of New York: Succession Charts

U.S. District Court for the District of New York
September 24, 1789 1 Stat. 73	April 29, 1812 2 Stat. 719
Duane, James 1789-1794	Van Ness, William P.² 1812-1814
Laurance, John 1794-1796
Troup, Robert 1796-1798
Hobart, John S. 1798-1805
Tallmadge, Matthias B.¹ 1805-1814
1. The act of April 9, 1814, 3 Stat. 210, transferred this judgeship to the Northern District of New York. 2. The act of April 9, 1814, 3 Stat. 210, transferred this judgeship to the Southern District of New York.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
April 9, 1814 3 Stat. 120	February 25, 1919 (effective ca. April 29, 1920) 40 Stat. 1156³	March 3, 1927 44 Stat. 1374	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Tallmadge, Matthias B.¹ 1814-1819	Cooper, Frank 1920-1941	Bryant, Frederick H. 1927-1945	McCurn, Neal P. 1979-1993	McAvoy, Thomas J. 1986-2003	Scullin, Frederick J., Jr. 1992-2006
Skinner, Roger 1819-1825	Brennan, Stephen W. 1942-1963	Kampf, Edward S. 1946-1948	Kahn, Lawrence E. 1996-2007	Sharpe, Gary L. 2004-2016	D'Agostino, Mae A. 2011-
Conkling, Alfred 1825-1852	Port, Edmund 1964-1976	Foley, James T. 1949-1980	Suddaby, Glenn T. 2008-2024	Nardacci, Anne M. 2022-
Hall, Nathan K. 1852-1874	Munson, Howard G. 1976-1990	Miner, Roger J. 1981-1985
Wallace, William J. 1874-1882	Pooler, Rosemary S. 1994-1998	Cholakis, Con. G. 1986-1996
Coxe, Alfred C., Sr. 1882-1902	Mordue, Norman A. 1998-2013	Hurd, David N. 1999-
Ray, George W.² 1902-1925	Sannes, Brenda K. 2014-
1. The act of April 9, 1814, 3 Stat. 210, transferred this judgeship from the District of New York. 2. On or about April 29, 1920, the president certified George Ray 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. 3. The act of February 25, 1919, 40 Stat. 1156, was made applicable to the Northern District of New York on or about April 29, 1920, when the president certified Judge Ray as disabled. Frank Cooper was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
April 9, 1814 3 Stat. 120	February 9, 1903 32 Stat. 805	May 26, 1906 34 Stat. 202	March 2, 1909 35 Stat. 685	September 14, 1922 42 Stat. 837	September 14, 1922 42 Stat. 837	February 26, 1929 45 Stat. 1317	February 26, 1929 45 Stat. 1317
Van Ness, William P.¹ 1814-1826	Holt, George C. 1903-1914	Hough, Charles M. 1906-1916	Hand, Learned 1909-1924	Goddard, Henry W. 1923-1954	Winslow, Francis A. 1923-1929	Woolsey, John M.² 1929-1943	Caffey, Francis G. 1929-1947
Betts, Samuel R. 1826-1867	Hand, Augustus N. 1914-1927	Manton, Martin T. 1916-1918	Thacher, Thomas D. 1925-1930	Dawson, Archie O. 1954-1964	Leibell, Vincent L. 1936-1954		Ryan, Sylvester J. 1947-1973
Blatchford, Samuel M. 1867-1878	Coleman, Frank J. 1927-1934	Knox, John C. 1918-1955	Patterson, Robert P., Sr. 1930-1939	Motley, Constance B. 1966-1986	Bicks, Alexander 1954-1963		Werker, Henry F. 1974-1984
Choate, William G. 1878-1881	Hulbert, George M. 1934-1950	Levet, Richard H. 1956-1966	Rifkind, Simon H. 1941-1950	Wood, Kimba M. 1988-2009	Tenney, Charles H. 1963-1979		Stanton, Louis L. 1985-1996
Brown, Addison 1881-1901	Dimock, Edward J. 1951-1961	Lasker, Morris E. 1968-1983	Weinfeld, Edward 1950-1988	Briccetti, Vincent L. 2011-2023	Sprizzo, John E. 1981-2000		Hellerstein, Alvin K. 1998-2011
Adams, George B. 1901-1911	McLean, Edward C. 1962-1972	Walker, John M., Jr. 1985-1989	Martin, John S., Jr. 1990-2003	Garnett, Margaret M. 2024-	Lynch, Gerard E. 2000-2009		Furman, Jesse M. 2012-
Mayer, Julius M. 1912-1921	Owen, Richard 1973-1989	Sotomayor, Sonia 1992-1998	Robinson, Stephen C. 2003-2010		Engelmayer, Paul A. 2011-
Bondy, William 1923-1956	Batts, Deborah A. 1994-2012	Marrero, Victor 1999-2010	Ramos, Edgardo 2011-
Bryan, Frederick van Pelt 1956-1972	Broderick, Vernon S. 2013-	Carter, Andrew L., Jr. 2011-
Ward, Robert J. 1972-1991
Preska, Loretta A. 1992-2017
Vyskocil, Mary K. 2019-

February 26, 1929 45 Stat. 1317	June 15, 1936 49 Stat. 1491	June 15, 1936 49 Stat. 1491	May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584	March 24, 1940 54 Stat. 219	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493	August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493
Coxe, Alfred C., Jr. 1929-1951	Clancy, John W. 1936-1959	Mandelbaum, Samuel 1936-1946	Conger, Edward A. 1938-1954	Bright, John 1941-1948	McGohey, John F. X. 1949-1970	Kaufman, Irving R. 1949-1961	Noonan, Gregory F. 1949-1964
Edelstein, David N. 1951-1994	Metzner, Charles M. 1959-1977	Medina, Harold R. 1947-1951	Herlands, William B. 1955-1969	Kaufman, Samuel H. 1948-1955	Brieant, Charles L., Jr. 1971-2007	Cannella, John M. 1963-1977	Frankel, Marvin E. 1965-1978
Rakoff, Jed S. 1996-2010	Sand, Leonard B. 1978-1993	Murphy, Thomas F. 1951-1970	Pierce, Lawrence W. 1971-1981	Cashin, John M. 1955-1965	Gardephe, Paul G. 2008-2023	Lowe, Mary J. 1978-1991	Sofaer, Abraham D. 1979-1985
Forrest, Katherine B. 2011-2018	Parker, Barrington D., Jr. 1994-2001	Gurfein, Murray I. 1971-1974	Kram, Shirley W. 1983-1993	Mansfield, Walter R. 1966-1971	Vargas, Jeannette A. 2024-	Cote, Denise 1994-2011	Mukasey, Michael B. 1987-2006
Ho, Dale E. 2023-	Holwell, Richard J. 2003-2012	Haight, Charles S., Jr. 1976-1995	Koeltl, John G. 1994-	Knapp, Whitman 1972-1987		Failla, Katherine P. 2013-	Sullivan, Richard J. 2007-2018
	Caproni, Valerie E. 2013-	Casey, Richard C. 1997-2007		Patterson, Robert P., Jr. 1988-1998			Rearden, Jennifer H. 2022-
		Seibel, Cathy 2008-		Daniels, George B. 2000-2021
				Rochon, Jennifer L. 2022-

August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493	February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8	February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80
Sugarman, Sidney 1949-1971	Palmieri, Edmund L. 1954-1972	Walsh, Lawrence E. 1954-1957	Croake, Thomas F. 1961-1972	Bonsal, Dudley B. 1961-1976	Feinberg, Wilfred 1961-1966	Cooper, Irving B. 1961-1972	Tyler, Harold R., Jr. 1962-1975
Stewart, Charles E., Jr. 1972-1985	Conner, William C. 1973-1987	MacMahon, Lloyd F. 1959-1982	Carter, Robert L. 1972-1986	Leval, Pierre N. 1977-1993	Pollack, Milton 1967-1983	Duffy, Kevin T. 1972-1998	Broderick, Vincent L. 1976-1988
Cedarbaum, Miriam G. 1986-1998	McKenna, Lawrence M. 1990-2002	Keenan, John F. 1983-1996	Conboy, Kenneth 1987-1993	Stein, Sidney H. 1995-2010	Leisure, Peter K. 1984-1997	Berman, Richard M. 1998-2011	Schwartz, Allen G. 1993-2003
Buchwald, Naomi R. 1999-2012	Castel, P. Kevin 2003-2017	McMahon, Colleen 1998-2021	Jones, Barbara S. 1995-2012	Nathan, Alison J. 2011-2022	Pauley, William H., III 1998-2018	Román, Nelson S. 2013-	Karas, Kenneth M. 2004-
Torres, Analisa N. 2013-	Halpern, Philip M. 2020-	Clarke, Jessica G. L. 2023-	Woods, Gregory H., III 2013-	Subramanian, Arun S. 2023-	Cronan, John P. 2020-

May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	June 2, 1970 84 Stat. 294	June 2, 1970 84 Stat. 294	June 2, 1970 84 Stat. 294	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Wyatt, Inzer B. 1962-1977	Gagliardi, Lee P. 1971-1985	Bauman, Arnold 1971-1974	Griesa, Thomas P. 1972-2000	Chin, Denny 1994-2010
Sweet, Robert W. 1978-1991	Daronco, Richard J. 1987-1988	Goettel, Gerard L. 1976-1993	Swain, Laura T. 2000-	Oetken, James P. 2011-
Baer, Harold, Jr. 1994-2004	Freeh, Louis J. 1991-1993	Kaplan, Lewis A. 1994-2011
Crotty, Paul A. 2005-2015	Scheindlin, Shira A. 1994-2011	Abrams, Ronnie 2012-
Liman, Lewis J. 2019-	Schofield, Lorna G. 2012-
1. The act of April 9, 1814, 3 Stat. 210, transferred this judgeship from the District of New York. 2. The act of March 24, 1940, 54 Stat. 219, 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 John Woolsey was appointed.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
February 25, 1865 13 Stat. 438	June 25, 1910 36 Stat. 838	September 14, 1922 42 Stat. 837	February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1409	February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1409	August 19, 1935 49 Stat. 659	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80
Benedict, Charles L. 1865-1897	Veeder, Van Vechten 1911-1917	Campbell, Marcus B. 1923-1944	Galston, Clarence G. 1929-1957	Byers, Mortimer W. 1929-1960	Abruzzo, Matthew T. 1936-1966	Dooling, John F., Jr. 1961-1976	Rosling, George 1961-1973
Tenney, Asa W. 1897	Garvin, Edwin L. 1918-1925	Kennedy, Harold M. 1944-1952	Zavatt, Joseph C. 1957-1970	Mishler, Jacob 1960-1980	Travia, Anthony J. 1968-1974	Sifton, Charles P. 1977-2000	Platt, Thomas C., Jr. 1974-2001
Thomas, Edward B. 1898-1906	Moscowitz, Grover M. 1925-1947	Bruchhausen, Walter 1953-1967	Neaher, Edward R. 1971-1982	Glasser, Israel L. 1981-1993	Pratt, George C. 1976-1982	Garaufis, Nicholas 2000-2014	Feuerstein, Sandra J. 2003-2015
Chatfield, Thomas 1907-1922	Rayfiel, Leo F. 1947-1966	Judd, Orrin G. 1968-1976	Altimari, Frank X. 1982-1985	Ross, Allyne R. 1994-2011	Wexler, Leonard D. 1983-1994	DeArcy Hall, LaShann M. 2015-	Brown, Gary R. 2019-
Inch, Robert A. 1923-1958	Weinstein, Jack B. 1967-1993	Nickerson, Eugene H. 1977-1994	Raggi, Reena 1987-2002	Brodie, Margo K. 2012-	Gershon, Nina 1996-2008
Bartels, John R. 1959-1973	Gleeson, John 1994-2016	Block, Frederic 1994-2005	Irizarry, Dora L. 2004-2020		Kuntz, William F., II 2011-2022
Bramwell, Henry 1974-1987	Gujarati, Diane 2020-	Cogan, Brian M. 2006-2020	Morrison, Nina R. 2022-		Merchant, Orelia E. 2023-
Spatt, Arthur D. 1989-2004		Gonzalez, Hector 2022-
Vitaliano, Eric N. 2006-2017
Komitee, Eric R. 2019-

June 2, 1970 84 Stat. 294	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	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089	December 1, 1990 (effective February 2021) 104 Stat. 5089¹
Constantino, Mark A. 1971-1987	McLaughlin, Joseph M. 1981-1990	Korman, Edward R. 1985-2007	Dearie, Raymond J. 1986-2011	Hurley, Denis R. 1991-2004	Seybert, Joanna 1993-2014	Trager, David G. 1993-2006	Merle, Natasha C. 2023-
Amon, Carol B. 1990-2016	Johnson, Sterling, Jr. 1991-2003	Matsumoto, Kiyo A. 2008-2022	Chen, Pamela K. M. 2013-	Bianco, Joseph F. 2006-2019	Azrack, Joan M. 2014-	Mauskopf, Roslynn R.² 2007-2024
Kovner, Rachel P. 2019-	Townes, Sandra L. 2004-2015	Reyes, Ramon E., Jr. 2023-		Choudhury, Nusrat J. 2023-
	Donnelly, Ann M. 2015-
1. The act of December 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5089, provided for the appointment of an additional judge for the court if an active judge assumed "the duties of a full-time office of Federal judicial administration." Roslynn Mauskopf became director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in February 2021, and Natasha Merle was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute. 2. Pursuant to the act of December 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5089, no successor to Roslynn Mauskopf was appointed because her seat became vacant simultaneously with the conclusion of her service as director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
May 12, 1900 31 Stat. 175	March 3, 1927 44 Stat. 1370	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333
Hazel, John R. 1900-1931	Adler, Simon L. 1927-1934	Curtin, John T. 1967-1989	Larimer, David G. 1987-2009
Knight, John 1931-1955	Rippey, Harlan W. 1934-1936	Skretny, William M. 1990-2015	Geraci, Frank P., Jr. 2013-2023
Morgan, Justin C. 1956-1959	Burke, Harold P. 1937-1981	Sinatra, John L., Jr. 2019-	Vacca, Meredith A. 2024-
Henderson, John O. 1959-1974	Telesca, Michael A. 1982-1996
Elfvin, John T. 1974-1987	Siragusa, Charles J. 1997-2012
Arcara, Richard J. 1988-2015	Wolford, Elizabeth A. 2013-
Vilardo, Lawrence J. 2015-

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