Judges
Judges of the D.C. Circuit:
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
End reason |
| William Cranch | John Adams Thomas Jefferson (as chief judge) |
18010228February 28, 1801 February 24, 1806 |
18550901February 24, 1806 September 1, 1855 |
reappointment death |
| Allen Bowie Duckett | Thomas Jefferson | 18060317March 17, 1806 | 18090719July 19, 1809 | death |
| James Dunlop | James K. Polk Franklin Pierce (as chief judge) |
18451003October 3, 1845 November 27, 1855 |
18630303November 27, 1855 March 3, 1863 |
reappointment abolition of the court |
| Nicholas Battalle Fitzhugh | Thomas Jefferson | 18031125November 25, 1803 | 18141231December 31, 1814 | death |
| William Kilty | Thomas Jefferson (as chief judge) |
18020126January 26, 1802 | 18060127January 27, 1806 | death |
| James Markham Marshall | John Adams | 18010303March 3, 1801 | 18031116November 16, 1803 | resignation |
| William Matthew Merrick | Franklin Pierce | 18551214December 14, 1855 | 18630303March 3, 1863 | abolition of the court |
| James Sewall Morsell | James Madison | 18150111January 11, 1815 | 18630303March 3, 1863 | abolition of the court |
| Buckner Thruston | James Madison | 18091214December 14, 1809 | 18450830August 30, 1845 | death |
Read more about this topic: United States Circuit Court Of The District Of Columbia
Famous quotes containing the word judges:
“If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.”
—Bible: Hebrew Samson, in Judges 14:18.
To the men who had answered his riddle, “Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.”
“The judges did the punishing, the criminals paid for their crimes and I, free of responsibilities, removed from judgment and from punishment, I ruled, freely, in an edenic light.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)