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U.S. District Court in Michigan
U.S. District Judges for Michigan, 1808-28 (may be
incomplete!)
James
Witherell 1808-28
U.S. District Judges for the Eastern District of Michigan,
1875-2017 (may be incomplete!)
Henry
B. Brown 1875-90
Henry
Harrison Swan 1891-1911
Alexis
C. Angell 1911-12
Arthur
J. Tuttle 1912-44
Charles
C. Simons 1923-32
Edward
J. Moinet 1927-46
Frank
A. Picard 1939
Theodore
Levin 1946-70
Thaddeus
Machrowicz 1961-70
Wade
H. McCree, Jr. 1961-66
Talbot
Smith 1961-71
Stephen
J. Roth 1962-74
Damon
Keith 1967-77
Robert
Edward DeMascio 1971-88
Charles
W. Joiner 1972-84
R.
James Harvey 1974-84
Ralph
B. Guy, Jr. 1976
Patricia
J. Boyle 1978-83
Julian
Abele Cook, Jr. 1978-96
Horace
W. Gilmore 1980-91
Richard
Fred Suhrheinrich 1984-90
Lawrence
P. Zatkoff 1986-
Barbara
Kloka Hackett 1986-97
Patrick
J. Duggan 1986-2000
Gerald
Rosen 1990-
Nancy
Garlock Edmunds 1992-2012
Paul
D. Borman 1994-
George
Caram Steeh III 1998-2013
Arthur
J. Tarnow 1998-2010
Paul
V. Gadola, Jr. 1998-2001
Marianne
O. Battani 2000-
Stephen
Joseph Murphy III 2008-
Terrence
George Berg 2012-
Laurie
Jill Michelson 2014-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Judges for the Western District of Michigan,
1886-2017 (may be incomplete!)
Henry
F. Severens 1886-1900
George
P. Wanty 1900-06
Loyal
Edwin Knappen 1906-10
Arthur
Carter Denison 1910-11
Clarence
W. Sessions 1911-31
Fred
Morton Raymond 1925-46
Raymond
Wesley Starr 1946-61
Wendell
A. Miles 1974-86
Robert
H. Bell 1987-
David
W. McKeague 1992-2005
Paul
L. Maloney 2007-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
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Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License. | ||
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