Former Judges
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| James Allred | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01939-02-23February 23, 1939 | 01942-05-15May 15, 1942 | – | resignation |
| James Allred | Harry S. Truman | 01949-10-13October 13, 1949 | 01959-09-24September 24, 1959 | – | death |
| Norman William Black | Jimmy Carter | 01979-05-11May 11, 1979 | 01996-12-06December 6, 1996 | 01997-07-23July 23, 1997 | death |
| Waller Thomas Burns | Theodore Roosevelt | 01902-04-22April 22, 1902 | 01917-11-17November 17, 1917 | – | death |
| George Edward Cire | Jimmy Carter | 01979-05-11May 11, 1979 | 01985-05-05May 5, 1985 | – | death |
| Ben Clarkson Connally | Harry S. Truman | 01949-10-13October 13, 1949 | 01974-12-28December 28, 1974 | 01975-12-02December 2, 1975 | death |
| Finis E. Cowan | Jimmy Carter | 01977-06-14June 14, 1977 | 01979-06-30June 30, 1979 | – | resignation |
| Owen DeVol Cox | Richard Nixon | 01970-12-01December 1, 1970 | 01981-03-20March 20, 1981 | 01990-07-21July 21, 1990 | death |
| James DeAnda | Jimmy Carter | 01979-05-11May 11, 1979 | 01992-10-01October 1, 1992 | – | retirement |
| Reynaldo Guerra Garza | John F. Kennedy | 01961-04-14April 14, 1961 | 01979-08-01August 1, 1979 | – | reappointment |
| Hugh Gibson | Jimmy Carter | 01979-10-05October 5, 1979 | 01989-11-01November 1, 1989 | 01998-06-18June 18, 1998 | death |
| Allen Burroughs Hannay | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01942-08-12August 12, 1942 | 01975-08-06August 6, 1975 | 01983-10-22October 22, 1983 | death |
| Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Jr. | Woodrow Wilson | 01918-04-06April 6, 1918 | 01931-01-26January 26, 1931 | – | reappointment |
| Joe McDonald Ingraham | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 01954-08-06August 6, 1954 | 01969-12-31December 31, 1969 | – | reappointment |
| Thomas Martin Kennerly | Herbert Hoover | 01931-02-07February 7, 1931 | 01954-08-29August 29, 1954 | 01962-07-29July 29, 1962 | death |
| Samuel B. Kent | George H. W. Bush | 01990-10-01October 1, 1990 | 02009-02-23February 23, 2009 | – | resigned effective June 30, 2009 after being impeached |
| Gabrielle Kirk McDonald | Jimmy Carter | 01979-05-11May 11, 1979 | 01988-08-14August 14, 1988 | – | resignation |
| James Latane Noel, Jr. | John F. Kennedy | 01961-10-05October 5, 1961 | 01976-12-15December 15, 1976 | 01997-08-29August 29, 1997 | death |
| Robert J. O'Conor, Jr. | Gerald Ford | 01975-04-25April 25, 1975 | 01984-09-30September 30, 1984 | – | resignation |
| Woodrow Bradley Seals | Lyndon B. Johnson | 01966-07-23July 23, 1966 | 01982-12-25December 25, 1982 | 01990-10-27October 27, 1990 | death |
| John Virgil Singleton, Jr. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 01966-07-22July 22, 1966 | 01988-04-01April 1, 1988 | 01992-06-01June 1, 1992 | retirement |
| Ross N. Sterling | Gerald Ford | 01976-05-07May 7, 1976 | 01988-01-14January 14, 1988 | – | death |
| Filemon Bartolome Vela | Jimmy Carter | 01980-06-18June 18, 1980 | 02000-05-01May 1, 2000 | 02004-04-13April 13, 2004 | death |
On Thursday, May 17, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Gary Blankinship, of Pasadena, Texas, a former Vice President for the National Association of Police Organizations, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Texas for the term of four years, to succeed Ruben Monzon, who had resigned. Formerly, he had been a Senior Police Officer with the Houston Police Department, working there from 1982 until 2012. Prior to that, he had served with the Harris County Sheriff's Department.
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