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

U.S. District Court for the District of Washington

February 22, 1889
25 Stat. 676

Hanford, Cornelius H.¹
1890-1905

1. The act of March 2, 1905, 33 Stat. 824, transferred this judgeship to the Western District of Washington.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
March 2, 1905 33 Stat. 824	January 20, 1940 54 Stat. 16¹	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80³	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Whitson, Edward 1905-1910	Black, Lloyd L. 1940-1950	Goodwin, William N. 1966-1975	McNichols, Robert J. 1979-1991	McDonald, Alan A. 1985-1996	Van Sickle, Frederick L. 1991-2008
Rudkin, Frank H. 1911-1923	Lindberg, William J.² 1951-1961	Tanner, Jack E.⁴ 1978	Nielsen, William F. 1991-2003	Shea, Edward F. 1998-2012	Peterson, Rosanna M. 2010-2021
Webster, John S. 1923-1939			Suko, Lonny R. 2003-2013	Bastian, Stanley A. 2014-	Dimke, Mary K. 2021-
Schwellenbach, Lewis B. 1940-1945			Mendoza, Salvador, Jr. 2014-2022
Driver, Samuel M. 1946-1958			Pennell, Rebecca L. 2024-
Powell, Charles L. 1959-1972
Neill, Marshall A. 1972-1979
Quackenbush, Justin L. 1980-1995
Whaley, Robert H. 1995-2009
Rice, Thomas O. 2012-
1. The act of January 20, 1940, assigned the judgeship authorized for the Western District of Washington by the act of May 31, 1938, 52 Stat. 584, to the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington. 2. The act of May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 80, assigned this judgeship to the Western District of Washington exclusively. 3. The act of May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 80, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington. 4. The act of October 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1629, assigned this judgeship to the Western District of Washington exclusively.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
March 2, 1905 33 Stat. 824¹	March 2, 1909 35 Stat. 686	May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80²	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 (effective September 2003) 104 Stat. 5089⁴
Hansford, Cornelius H. 1905-1912	Donworth, George 1909-1912	Black, Lloyd L. 1939-1950	Goodwin, William N. 1966-1975	Rothstein, Barbara J.³ 1980-2011	Dimmick, Carolyn R. 1985-1997	Bryan, Robert J. 1986-2000	Martinez, Ricardo S. 2004-2022
Howard, Clinton W. 1912-1913	Cushman, Edward E. 1912-1939	Lindberg, William J. 1951-1971	Tanner, Jack E. 1978-1991		Lasnik, Robert S. 1998-2016	Leighton, Ronald B. 2002-2019	Evanson, Kymberly K. 2023-
Neterer, Jeremiah 1913-1933	Leavy, Charles H. 1942-1952	McGovern, Walter T. 1971-1987	Burgess, Franklin D. 1994-2005		King, Lauren J. 2021-	Estudillo, David 2021-
Bowen, John C. 1934-1961	Boldt, George H. 1953-1971	Zilly, Thomas S. 1988-2004	Settle, Benjamin H. 2007-2020
Beeks, William T. 1961-1973	Sharp, Morell E. 1971-1980	Robart, James L. 2004-2016	Cartwright, Tiffany M. 2023-
Voorhees, Donald S. 1974-1986	Coughenour, John C. 1981-2006	Chun, John H. 2022-
Dwyer, William L. 1987-1998	Jones, Richard A. 2007-2022
Pechman, Marsha J. 1999-2016	Whitehead, Jamal N. 2023-
Lin, Tana 2021-
1. The act of March 2, 1905, 33 Stat. 824, transferred this judgeship from the District of Washington. 2. The act of May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 80, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern and Western Districts of Washington. 3. Pursuant to the act of December 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5089, no successor to Barbara Rothstein was appointed because her seat became vacant during her service as director of the Federal Judicial Center. 4. 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." Barbara Rothstein became director of the Federal Judicial Center in September 2003, and Ricardo Martinez was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute.

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