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District Court · Tenth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas

The federal trial court. Juries sit here, evidence is heard here, and almost every federal case begins here.

The bench

Who sits on this court?

Judges in active service, when they were confirmed, and who nominated each.

Judges currently in service
JudgeSinceNominated bySeat
John Watson Lungstrum Senior1991George H.W. BushKSD0702
Monti L. Belot Senior1991George H.W. BushKSD0801
Kathryn Hoefer Vratil Senior1992George H.W. BushKSD0304
Julie A. Robinson Senior2001George W. BushKSD0504
Eric F. Melgren Senior2008George W. BushKSD0802
Daniel Dale Crabtree Senior2014Barack ObamaKSD0703
John Wesley Broomes2018Donald J. TrumpKSD0405
Holly Lou Teeter2018Donald J. TrumpKSD0305
Toby Jon Crouse2020Donald J. TrumpKSD0604
Jeffrey Marion Kuhlman2026Donald J. TrumpKSD0803
Anthony Wayne Mattivi2026Donald J. TrumpKSD0704
Anthony John Powell2026Donald J. TrumpKSD0505

Source · Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges, 1789–present (public domain)

What seats does this court have?

Each seat on this court, who holds it, and how many judges have held it before.

Judges seated now
12
Seat numbers on record
34
Seats with a sitting judge
SeatHeld bySinceHolders to date
KSD0304Kathryn Hoefer Vratil19921
KSD0305Holly Lou Teeter20181
KSD0405John Wesley Broomes20181
KSD0504Julie A. Robinson20011
KSD0505Anthony John Powell20261
KSD0604Toby Jon Crouse20201
KSD0702John Watson Lungstrum19911
KSD0703Daniel Dale Crabtree20141
KSD0704Anthony Wayne Mattivi20261
KSD0801Monti L. Belot19911
KSD0802Eric F. Melgren20081
KSD0803Jeffrey Marion Kuhlman20261
22 seat numbers with no sitting judge

These are seat numbers in the historical record with nobody currently in them. That usually means the seat was abolished or renumbered, not that it is open today — Congress has changed the size of federal courts many times. Do not read this as a vacancy list.

SeatLast held byUntilHolders
KSD0101Archibald Williams18631
KSD0102Mark W. Delahay18731
KSD0103Cassius Gaius Foster18991
KSD0104William Cather Hook19031
KSD0105John Calvin Pollock19371
KSD0201George Thomas McDermott19291
KSD0202Richard Joseph Hopkins19431
KSD0203Guy Tresillian Helvering19461
KSD0301Arthur Johnson Mellott19571
KSD0302Arthur Jehu Stanley Jr.20011
KSD0303Earl Eugene O'Connor19981
KSD0401Delmas Carl Hill19611
KSD0402Wesley Ernest Brown20121
KSD0403Patrick F. Kelly19961
KSD0404John Thomas Marten20211
KSD0501Henry George Templar19881
KSD0502Richard Dean Rogers20161
KSD0503George Thomas VanBebber20051
KSD0601Frank Gordon Theis19981
KSD0602Sam A. Crow20221
KSD0603Carlos Murguia20201
KSD0701Dale Emerson Saffels20021

This site does not publish a vacancy count. Seat identifiers are not stable across court renamings and reorganisations, so a seat that was vacated and refilled can appear empty when it is not. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts publishes the authoritative list of current judicial vacancies: uscourts.gov.

Seats are created by Congress and filled by the President with the Senate's consent. For current vacancies, use the Administrative Office's published list rather than inferring them from this table.

Source · Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges, 1789–present (public domain)

How this bench was built

Who appointed them?

The tally of presidents who placed the sitting judges on this court.

Republican
11
Democratic
1
Sitting judges by appointing president
PresidentJudges
Donald J. Trump6
George H.W. Bush3
George W. Bush2
Barack Obama1

The party of the president who appointed a judge is a matter of record. How that judge will rule is not, and this site draws no inference from one to the other.

Source · Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges, 1789–present (public domain)