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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit: Succession Chart

March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	March 3, 1891 26 Stat. 826	July 23, 1894 28 Stat. 115	January 31, 1903 32 Stat. 791	June 18, 1910 36 Stat. 539²	March 3, 1925 43 Stat. 1116	March 3, 1925 43 Stat. 1116	February 28, 1929 45 Stat. 1346
Caldwell, Henry C. 1891-1903	Sanborn, Walter H. 1892-1928	Thayer, Amos M. 1894-1905	Van Devanter, Willis 1903-1910	Carland, John E. 1911-1922	Booth, Wilbur F. 1925-1932	Van Valkenburgh, Arba S. 1925-1933	Gardner, Archibald K. 1929-1960
Hook, William C. 1903-1921	Cotteral, John H.¹ 1928-1929	Adams, Elmer B. 1905-1916	Smith, Walter I. 1911-1922		Sanborn, John B. 1932-1959	Woodrough, Joseph W. 1933-1961	Ridge, Albert A. 1961-1965
Lewis, Robert E.¹ 1921-1929		Stone, Kimbrough 1916-1947	Kenyon, William S. 1922-1933		Blackmun, Harry A. 1959-1970	Mehaffy, Pat 1963-1974	Gibson, Floyd R. 1965-1979
		Collet, John C. 1947-1955	Faris, Charles B. 1935		Ross, Donald R. 1970-1987	Henley, J. Smith 1975-1982	Gibson, John R. 1982-1994
		Whittaker, Charles E. 1956-1957	Thomas, Seth 1935-1954		Beam, C. Arlen 1987-2001	Bowman, Pasco M., II 1983-2003	Murphy, Diana E. 1994-2016
		Matthes, Marion C. 1958-1973	Van Oosterhout, Martin D. 1954-1971		Riley, William J. 2001-2017	Gruender, Raymond W. 2004-	Stras, David R. 2018-
		Webster, William H. 1973-1978	Stephenson, Roy L. 1971-1982		Grasz, Leonard S. 2018-
		McMillian, Theodore 1978-2003	Fagg, George G. 1982-1999
		Benton, William D. 2004-	Melloy, Michael J. 2002-2013
			Kelly, Jane L. 2013-

May 24, 1940 54 Stat. 219	May 24, 1940 54 Stat. 219	March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Johnsen, Harvey M. 1940-1965	Riddick, Walter G. 1941-1953	Heaney, Gerald W. 1966-1988	Arnold, Richard S. 1980-2001	Wollman, Roger L. 1985-2018	Hansen, David R. 1991-2003
Lay, Donald P. 1966-1992	Vogel, Charles J. 1954-1968	Loken, James B. 1990-	Smith, Lavenski R. 2002-	Kobes, Jonathan A. 2018-	Colloton, Steven M. 2003-
Arnold, Morris S. 1992-2006	Bright, Myron H. 1968-1985
Shepherd, Bobby E. 2006-	Magill, Frank J. 1986-1997
	Kelly, John D. 1998
	Bye, Kermit E. 2000-2015
	Erickson, Ralph R. 2017-
1. The act of February 28, 1929, 45 Stat. 1346, transferred these judgeships to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. 2. The act of June 18, 1910, 36 Stat. 539, created the Commerce Court and provided for each of its five judges to serve simultaneously as a circuit judge. In accordance with the statute, President William H. Taft appointed John Carland to the Eighth Circuit.

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