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How U.S. judges actually decide, drawn from their own signed orders. Each profile shows what persuades a judge, their procedural preferences, and grounded examples with links to the source.

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3,767 judges

Youlee Yim You

D. Oregon

27 orders 4 insights

Cathy Bissoon

W.D. Pennsylvania · Appt. Barack Obama (Democratic)

26 orders 4 insights

Dennis Raymond Knapp

S.D. West Virginia · Appt. Richard Nixon (Republican)

26 orders 4 insights

Frank Joseph Polozola

M.D. Louisiana · Appt. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)

26 orders 4 insights

James E. Grimes Jr.

N.D. Ohio · Appt. Merit selection

26 orders 4 insights

James Lane Buckley

D. Columbia Circuit · Appt. Ronald Reagan (Republican)

26 orders 4 insights

Jon Ormond Newman

Second Cir. · Appt. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)

26 orders 4 insights

Robert John Colville

W.D. Pennsylvania · Appt. Donald Trump (Republican)

26 orders 4 insights

Robert W. Trumble

N.D. West Virginia

26 orders 4 insights

Simon Louis Adler

W.D. New York · Appt. Calvin Coolidge (Republican)

26 orders 4 insights

Thomas John Curran

E.D. Wisconsin · Appt. Ronald Reagan (Republican)

26 orders 4 insights

Amos Madden Thayer

Eighth Cir. · Appt. Grover Cleveland (Democratic)

25 orders 4 insights

Annemarie Carney Axon

N.D. Alabama · Appt. Donald Trump (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

Bert Emory Haney

Ninth Cir. · Appt. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)

25 orders 4 insights

Charles Barnes Goodwin

W.D. Oklahoma · Appt. Donald Trump (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

Christopher B. Brown

W.D. Pennsylvania

25 orders 4 insights

Cynthia Holcomb Hall

Ninth Cir. · Appt. Ronald Reagan (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

Dal Millington Lemmon

Ninth Cir. · Appt. Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

David Renwick Thompson

Ninth Cir. · Appt. Ronald Reagan (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

Edward Allen Tamm

D. Columbia Circuit · Appt. Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)

25 orders 4 insights

Edward Samuel Smith

Federal Cir. · Appt. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)

25 orders 4 insights

Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan

S.D. West Virginia · Appt. Ronald Reagan (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

Elmer Bragg Adams

Eighth Cir. · Appt. Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)

25 orders 4 insights

Francis Ryan Duffy

Seventh Cir. · Appt. Harry S. Truman (Democratic)

25 orders 4 insights
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