United States District Court For The District of Columbia

Current Judges

As of November 8, 2011, a vacancy exists when judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. assumed senior status. On September 20, 2012, President Obama nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the seat.

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service			Appointed by
#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Active	Chief	Senior	Appointed by
77	Chief Judge	Royce C. Lamberth	Washington, D.C.	1943	1987–present	2008–present	—	Reagan
81	District Judge	Emmet G. Sullivan	Washington, D.C.	1947	1994–present	—	—	Clinton
84	District Judge	Colleen Kollar-Kotelly	Washington, D.C.	1943	1997–present	—	—	Clinton
86	District Judge	Richard W. Roberts	Washington, D.C.	1953	1998–present	—	—	Clinton
87	District Judge	Ellen Segal Huvelle	Washington, D.C.	1948	1999–present	—	—	Clinton
88	District Judge	Reggie Walton	Washington, D.C.	1949	2001–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
89	District Judge	John D. Bates	Washington, D.C.	1946	2001–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
90	District Judge	Richard J. Leon	Washington, D.C.	1949	2002–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
91	District Judge	Rosemary M. Collyer	Washington, D.C.	1945	2002–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
92	District Judge	Beryl A. Howell	Washington, D.C.	1956	2010–present	—	—	Obama
93	District Judge	Robert L. Wilkins	Washington, D.C.	1963	2010–present	—	—	Obama
94	District Judge	James E. Boasberg	Washington, D.C.	1963	2011–present	—	—	Obama
95	District Judge	Amy Berman Jackson	Washington, D.C.	1954	2011–present	—	—	Obama
96	District Judge	Rudolph Contreras	Washington, D.C.	1962	2012–present	—	—	Obama
—	District Judge	(Vacant)	—	—	—	—	—	—
67	Senior District Judge	Louis F. Oberdorfer	inactive	1919	1977–1992	—	1992–present	Carter
70	Senior District Judge	Joyce Hens Green	inactive	1928	1979–1995	—	1995–present	Carter
73	Senior District Judge	Thomas F. Hogan	Washington, D.C.	1938	1982–2008	2001–2008	2008–present	Reagan
79	Senior District Judge	Paul L. Friedman	Washington, D.C.	1944	1994–2009	—	2009–present	Clinton
80	Senior District Judge	Gladys Kessler	Washington, D.C.	1938	1994–2007	—	2007–present	Clinton
85	Senior District Judge	Henry Harold Kennedy Jr.	Washington, D.C.	1948	1997–2011	—	2011–present	Clinton