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U.S. District Court in Massachusetts

U.S. District Judges for Massachusetts, 1789-2021 (may be incomplete!)
John Lowell 1789-1801 Peleg Sprague 1841-65 John Lowell 1865 Thomas Leverett Nelson 1879-97 Francis Cabot Lowell 1898 Frederic Dodge 1905-12 James Madison Morton, Jr. 1912-32 Elisha Hume Brewster 1922-41 Hugh Dean McLellan 1932-41 George C. Sweeney 1935-66 Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr. 1941-71 Arthur D. Healey 1942-48 William T. McCarthy 1949-60 Bailey Aldrich 1954-59 Andrew Augustine Caffrey 1960-86 W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. 1966-85 Frank Jerome Murray 1967-77 Levin H. Campbell 1971-72 Frank H. Freedman 1972-92 Walter Jay Skinner 1973-92 A. David Mazzone 1978-93 Robert Ernest Keeton 1979-2003 John Joseph McNaught 1979-91 David Sutherland Nelson 1979-91 Reginald C. Lindsay 1993-2009 Patti B. Saris 1993- Richard Gaylore Stearns 1993- F. Dennis Saylor IV 2004- Denise Jefferson Casper 2010- Indira Talwani 2014- Mark Gerald Mastroianni 2014- Leo Theodore Sorokin 2014- Allison Dale Burroughs 2014-

Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1865 Mar 13: Peleg Sprague, resigned.
  • 1897 Nov 21: Thomas Leverett Nelson, died in office.
  • 1941 Sep 30: Hugh Dean McLellan, resigned.
  • 1941 Oct 14: Elisha Hume Brewster, took senior status.
  • 1948 Sep 16: Arthur D. Healey, died in office.
  • 1960 May 31: William T. McCarthy, took senior status.
  • 1966 Sep 30: George C. Sweeney, took senior status.
  • 1971 Sep 1: Charles Edward Wyzanski, Jr., took senior status.
  • 1977 Jul 15: Frank Jerome Murray, took senior status.
  • 1986 Oct 17: Andrew Augustine Caffrey, took senior status.
  • 1991 Feb 1: John Joseph McNaught, retired.
  • 1991 Sep 27: David Sutherland Nelson, took senior status.
  • 1992 Jan 1: Frank H. Freedman, took senior status.
  • 1992 Sep 14: Walter Jay Skinner, took senior status.
  • 1993 Jun 3: A. David Mazzone, took senior status.
  • 2003 Feb 28: Robert Ernest Keeton, took senior status.
  • 2009 Mar 12: Reginald C. Lindsay, died in office.
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