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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
Coombe, Elizabeth C.
2024-
   
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.
1999-2024
     
Ray, George W.2
1902-1925
Sannes, Brenda K.
2014-
Brindisi, Anthony J.
2024-
     
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.
2014-2024
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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