Judges, The Historical Society

Judge Ross Wilkins
Judge John Wesley Longyear
Judge Henry Billings Brown
Judge Henry Harrison Swan
Judge Alexis C. Angell
Judge Arthur J. Tuttle
Judge Charles C. Simons
Ernest A. O'Brien
Judge Arthur J. Lederle
Judge Frank A. Picard
Judge Arthur A. Koscinski

District Court Judges

S	Judge	Appointed By	Vice	Commission Date	Senior Status	Left Bench	Birthdate	Death
1	Ross Wilkins	Jackson	New	01/26/1837		resigned 02/18/1870	02/19/1799	05/17/1872
2	John W. Longyear	Grant	Wilkins	02/18/1870		died 03/11/1875	10/22/1820	03/11/1875
3	Henry Billings Brown	Grant	Longyear	03/19/1875		resigned 12/23/1890	03/02/1836	09/04/1913
4	Henry H. Swan	Harrison	Brown	01/21/1891		retired 07/01/1911	10/02/1840	06/12/1916
5	Alexis C. Angell	Taft	Swan	07/01/1911		resigned 06/01/1912	04/26/1857	12/24/1932
6	Arthur J. Tuttle	Taft	Angell	08/12/1912	8/12/1944	died 12/02/1944	11/08/1868	12/02/1944
7	Charles C. Simons	Harding	New	02/06/1923		resigned 02/02/1932	05/21/1876	02/02/1964
8	Edward J. Moinet	Coolidge	New	06/13/1927	3/1/1946	died 12/23/1952	07/14/1873	12/23/1952
9	Ernest A. O'Brien	Hoover	New	04/15/1931		died 10/09/1948	07/01/1897	10/09/1948
10	Arthur J. Lederle -Chief Judge 10/10/1948	Roosevelt	Simons	03/06/1936	1/30/1960	retired 07/01/1960	11/25/1887	04/29/1972
11	Frank A. Picard	Roosevelt	New	03/30/1939		died 02/28/1963	10/09/1889	02/28/1963
12	Arthur A. Koscinski	Truman	Tuttle	08/07/1945		retired 04/30/1957	04/01/1887	11/21/1957
13	Theodore Levin -Chief Judge 10/19/1959	Truman	Moinet	08/07/1946		died 12/31/1970	02/18/1897	12/31/1970
14	Thomas P. Thornton	Truman	O'Brien	02/15/1949	2/15/1966	died 07/01/1985	03/08/1898	07/01/1985
15	Ralph M. Freeman -Chief Judge 02/18/1967	Eisenhower	New	06/29/1954	7/1/1973	died 03/29/1990	05/05/1902	03/29/1990
16	Clifford P. O'Sullivan	Eisenhower	Koscinski	09/11/1957		resigned 04/04/1960	12/08/1897	10/07/1975
17	Frederick W. Kaess -Chief Judge 05/05/1972	Eisenhower	Lederle	07/10/1960	12/13/1975	died 03/30/1979	12/01/1910	03/30/1979
18	John Feikens	Eisenhower	Interim	10/07/1960		died 05/15/2011	12/03/1917	05/15/2011
19	Thaddeus M. Machrowicz	Kennedy	Picard	10/12/1961		died 02/17/1970	08/21/1899	02/17/1970
20	Wade H. McCree, Jr.	Kennedy	O'Sullivan	10/09/1961		resigned 09/07/1966	07/03/1920	08/30/1987
21	Talbot Smith	Kennedy	New	10/05/1961	10/31/1971	died 12/21/1978	10/11/1899	12/21/1978
22	Stephen J. Roth	Kennedy	New	05/08/1962		died 07/11/1974	04/21/1908	07/11/1974
23	Damon J. Keith -Chief Judge 12/14/1975	Johnson	Thornton	10/27/1967		resigned 01/22/1977	07/04/1922	01/00/1900
24	Lawrence Gubow	Johnson	McCree	10/11/1968		died 03/26/1978	01/10/1919	03/26/1978
25	Cornelia G. Kennedy -Chief Judge 01/23/1977	Nixon	Machrowicz	10/20/1970		resigned 10/04/1979	08/04/1923	05/12/2014
26	John Feikens -Chief Judge 10/04/1979	Nixon	New	12/01/1970	3/1/1986	died 05/15/2011	12/03/1917	05/15/2011
27	Phillip Pratt -Chief Judge 03/02/1986	Nixon	New	12/01/1970		died 02/07/1989	07/14/1924	02/07/1989
28	Robert E. DeMascio	Nixon	Levin	07/22/1971	1/15/1988	died 03/23/1999	01/11/1923	03/23/1999
29	Charles W. Joiner	Nixon	Smith	06/09/1972	8/15/1984	died 03/10/2017	02/14/1916	03/10/2017
30	James Harvey	Nixon	Freeman	12/19/1973	3/29/1984	retired 06/29/1992	07/04/1922	07/20/2019
31	James P. Churchill -Chief Judge 02/07/1989	Ford	Roth	12/20/1974	12/30/1989	Current	04/10
32	Ralph B. Guy, Jr.	Ford	Kaess	06/07/1976		resigned 10/17/1985	08/30/1929
33	Julian Abele Cook, Jr. -Chief Judge 12/31/1989	Carter	Gubow	09/23/1978	12/30/1996	retired 09/23/2014	06/22/1930	05/16/2017
34	Patricia J. Boyle	Carter	Keith	10/10/1978		resigned 04/23/1983	03/31/1937	01/13/2014
35	Avern Cohn	Carter	New	09/26/1979	10/9/1999	Current	07/23
36	Stewart A. Newblatt	Carter	New	09/26/1979	12/23/1993	Current	12/23
37	Anna Diggs Taylor -Chief Judge 12/31/1996	Carter	New	11/02/1979	12/31/1998	retired 01/01/2011	12/09/1932	11/04/2017
38	Horace W. Gilmore	Carter	Kennedy	06/18/1980	5/1/1991	died 01/25/2010	04/04/1918	01/25/2010
39	George E. Woods	Reagan	Boyle	11/16/1983	11/16/1993	died 10/09/2007	10/10/1923	10/09/2007
40	Richard F. Suhrheinrich	Reagan	Harvey	10/04/1984		resigned 07/12/1990	08/15/1936
41	George La Plata	Reagan	New	04/04/1985		retired 08/03/1996	10/17/1924	11/14/2010
42	Lawrence P. Zatkoff -Chief Judge 01/01/1999	Reagan	Guy	03/04/1986	6/16/2004	died 01/22/2015	06/16/1939	01/22/2015
43	Barbara K. Hackett	Reagan	Joiner	04/07/1986	4/8/1997	retired 03/01/2000	03/17/1928	12/23/2018
44	Patrick J. Duggan	Reagan	New	10/14/1986	9/29/2000	Current	09/28
45	Bernard A. Friedman -Chief Judge 06/16/2004	Reagan	DeMascio	04/20/1988	1/1/2009	Current	09/23
46	Paul V. Gadola	Reagan	Feikens	10/17/1988	1/31/2001	retired 09/05/2008	07/21/1929	12/26/2014
47	Gerald E. Rosen -Chief Judge 01/01/2009	H.W.Bush	Pratt	03/12/1990	10/26/2016	retired 02/01/2017	10/26/1951
48	Robert H. Cleland	H.W.Bush	Churchill	06/19/1990	3/1/2013	Current	04/26
49	Nancy G. Edmunds	H.W.Bush	Suhrheinrich	02/10/1992	8/1/2012	Current	07/10
50	Denise Page Hood -Chief Judge 01/01/2016*	Clinton	Woods	06/16/1994		Current	02/21
51	Paul D. Borman	Clinton	Newblatt	08/10/1994		Current	01/07
52	John Corbett O'Meara	Clinton	Gilmore	09/15/1994	1/1/2007	Current	11/04
53	Arthur J. Tarnow	Clinton	Cook	05/22/1998	5/26/2010	Current	02/03
54	George C. Steeh, III	Clinton	Hackett	05/22/1998	1/29/2013	Current	01/29
55	Victoria A. Roberts	Clinton	LaPlata	06/29/1998		Current	11/25
56	Marianne O. Battani	Clinton	Taylor	06/02/2000	6/9/2012	Current	05/18
57	David M. Lawson	Clinton	Cohn	06/02/2000		Current	01/11
58	Thomas L. Ludington	W.Bush	Gadola	06/12/2006		Current	12/28
59	Sean F. Cox	W.Bush	Zatkoff	06/12/2006		Current	09/24
60	Stephen J. Murphy, III	W.Bush	Duggan	08/18/2008		Current	09/23
61	Mark A. Goldsmith	Obama	O'Meara	06/22/2010		Current	08/29
62	Gershwin A. Drain	Obama	Friedman	08/08/2012		Current	01/24
63	Terrence G. Berg	Obama	Tarnow	12/07/2012		Current	08/05
64	Judith E. Levy	Obama	Edmunds	03/14/2014		Current	08/12
65	Laurie J. Michelson	Obama	Steeh	03/14/2014		Current	06/18
66	Matthew F. Leitman	Obama	Battani	03/14/2014		Current	08/02
67	Linda V. Parker	Obama	Cleland	03/17/2014		Current	02/17

Judges of the Eastern District of Michigan