United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
24 judges profiled from their own signed orders: how each rules on motions, with the orders quoted.
Richard Lesley Voorhees
District judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
James Braxton Craven Jr.Deceased
District judge, appointed by John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
Edwin Yates WebbDeceased
District judge, appointed by Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
James Bryan McMillanDeceased
District judge, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
Lacy Herman ThornburgRetired 2009
District judge, appointed by Bill Clinton (Democratic)
Robert Daniel PotterDeceased
District judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Woodrow Wilson JonesDeceased
District judge, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
Wilson WarlickDeceased
District judge, appointed by Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
David Bryan Sentelle
District judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
David Bryan Sentelle
District judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
David C. Keesler
Magistrate judge
Martin K. Reidinger
District judge, appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
James Edmund BoydDeceased
District judge, appointed by William McKinley (Republican)
William Carleton Metcalf
Magistrate judge
Frank D. Whitney
District judge, appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Graham C. MullenRetired 2026
District judge, appointed by George H. W. Bush (Republican)
Kenneth D. Bell
District judge, appointed by Donald Trump (Republican)
Robert Paine DickDeceased
District judge, appointed by Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
Hamilton Glover EwartDeceased
District judge, appointed by William McKinley (Republican)
Robert J. Conrad, Jr.Retired 2025
District judge, appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Harold Brent McKnightDeceased
District judge, appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Max O. Cogburn Jr.
District judge, appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)
Matthew E. Orso
District judge, appointed by Donald Trump (Republican)
Susan C. Rodriguez
District judge, appointed by Donald Trump (Republican)