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District Court · Ninth Circuit

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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
Ancer Lee Haggerty Senior1994William J. ClintonORD0110
Ann L. Aiken Senior1998William J. ClintonORD0402
Anna J. Brown Senior1999William J. ClintonORD0207
Michael W. Mosman Senior2003George W. BushORD0304
Marco Antonio Hernandez Senior2011Barack ObamaORD0503
Michael H. Simon2011Barack ObamaORD0111
Michael Jerome McShane2013Barack ObamaORD0602
Karin Johanna Immergut2019Donald J. TrumpORD0208
Adrienne Camille Nelson2023Joseph R. BidenORD0305
Amy Margaret Baggio2024Joseph R. BidenORD0504
Mustafa Taher Kasubhai2024Joseph R. BidenORD0403

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
11
Seat numbers on record
33
Seats with a sitting judge
SeatHeld bySinceHolders to date
ORD0110Ancer Lee Haggerty19941
ORD0111Michael H. Simon20111
ORD0207Anna J. Brown19991
ORD0208Karin Johanna Immergut20191
ORD0304Michael W. Mosman20031
ORD0305Adrienne Camille Nelson20231
ORD0402Ann L. Aiken19981
ORD0403Mustafa Taher Kasubhai20241
ORD0503Marco Antonio Hernandez20111
ORD0504Amy Margaret Baggio20241
ORD0602Michael Jerome McShane20131
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
ORD0101Matthew Paul Deady18931
ORD0102Charles Byron Bellinger19051
ORD0103Charles Edwin Wolverton19261
ORD0104John Hugh McNary19361
ORD0105Claude Charles McColloch19591
ORD0106John Francis Kilkenny19691
ORD0107Alfred Theodore Goodwin19711
ORD0108Otto Richard Skopil Jr.19791
ORD0109Owen Murphy Panner20181
ORD0201Robert Sharp Bean19311
ORD0202James Alger Fee19541
ORD0203William G. East19851
ORD0204Robert Clinton Belloni19991
ORD0205Edward Leavy19871
ORD0206Malcolm Francis Marsh20251
ORD0301Gus Jerome Solomon19871
ORD0302James Milton Burns20011
ORD0303Robert Edward Jones20251
ORD0401James Anthony Redden20201
ORD0501Helen Jackson Frye20111
ORD0502Garr M. King20191
ORD0601Michael Robert Hogan20121

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.

Democratic
9
Republican
2
Sitting judges by appointing president
PresidentJudges
William J. Clinton3
Joseph R. Biden3
Barack Obama3
Donald J. Trump1
George W. Bush1

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)