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Judicial Nominations Database
The Law School Office of Career Services maintains a database of all recent federal judicial nominations and recent confirmations. Once a recently confirmed nominee becomes an appointed judge, and attains a permanent court address, he or she is removed from this table and added to our judges database.
Please note that to be nominated to the federal bench is not the same thing as actually being a federal judge. Indeed, many nominees never actually get confirmed.
However, students should strongly consider contacting a nominee about clerking in the nominee's prospective chambers, with a few caveats. For example, a sitting judge has the opportunity to bring his or her current clerks to a new position. Therefore
there may not be as many, or any openings.
However, and more often than not, a judge being elevated
from a lower court will be allotted additional
clerks and will need to fill these positions
promptly. For nominees who are in private practice or government service, they may
especially relish the opportunity to hear from prospective clerks, not wanting to risk waiting to take the bench before finding suitable candidates. Of course, you may want to use caution in deciding whether it is worth the expense of actually going to an interview with a nominee given that he or she must first get confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and thus any offer will necessarily be conditional.
You can contact judicial nominees and newly
confirmed judges at their last known address (which
is posted here on the nominations database), until
they get installed in chambers.
To see a list of the entire Judicial Nominations Database, click one of the following links:
To view more nominations and confirmation
resources, see these related links:
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