Courts & Judges

Judges Appointed by Harry S Truman

Harry S Truman (Democratic) made 152 Article III appointments between 1945 and 1952, by commission date. 0 of those judges are still serving, in active or senior status.

Supreme Court4

Courts of appeals27

District courts112

Other courts9

Total appointments152

The appointees

GenderMale 151 Female 1

Race or ethnicityWhite 150 African American 2

ABA ratingQualified 1 Well Qualified 1

Counts per appointment as recorded in the Federal Judicial Center's directory. The American Bar Association has rated nominees since the 1950s; older appointments carry no rating, and some recent nominees were not rated.

Supreme Court (4)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Senate vote	Status
Harold Hitz Burton Associate Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Sep 22, 1945		Death 1964
Frederick Moore Vinson Chief Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Jun 21, 1946		Death 1953
Tom C. Clark Associate Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Aug 19, 1949	73-8	Death 1977
Sherman Minton Associate Justice	Supreme Court of the United States	Oct 5, 1949	48-16	Death 1965

Courts of appeals (27)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Status
Bennett Champ Clark Associate Justice	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Sep 28, 1945	Death 1954
Elijah Barrett Prettyman Associate Justice	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Sep 28, 1945	Death 1971
Wilbur Kingsbury Miller Associate Justice	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Sep 28, 1945	Death 1976
Harold Montelle Stephens Chief Justice	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Mar 5, 1948	Reassignment 1948
James McPherson Proctor Associate Justice	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Mar 5, 1948	Death 1953
David L. Bazelon	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Feb 10, 1950	Death 1993
Charles Fahy	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Apr 7, 1950	Death 1979
George Thomas Washington	Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	May 1, 1950	Death 1971
John Caskie Collet	Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit	Jul 9, 1947	Death 1955
Robert Lee Russell	Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	Oct 21, 1949	Death 1955
Wayne G. Borah	Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	Oct 21, 1949	Death 1966
Louie Willard Strum	Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	Sep 26, 1950	Death 1954
Richard Taylor Rives	Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	May 3, 1951	Reassignment 1981
John Patrick Hartigan	Court of Appeals for the First Circuit	Jan 3, 1951	Death 1968
William Edwin Orr	Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	Sep 28, 1945	Death 1965
Walter Lyndon Pope	Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	Mar 1, 1949	Death 1969
Harold Raymond Medina	Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	Jun 23, 1951	Retirement 1980
Francis Ryan Duffy	Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit	Feb 2, 1949	Death 1979
Philip J. Finnegan	Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit	May 5, 1949	Death 1959
Walter C. Lindley	Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit	Oct 13, 1949	Death 1958
Hardress Nathan Swaim	Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit	Feb 10, 1950	Death 1957
Shackelford Miller Jr.	Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit	Dec 11, 1945	Death 1965
John Coleman Pickett	Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit	Oct 13, 1949	Death 1983
John Joseph O'Connell	Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit	Oct 11, 1945	Death 1949
Harry Ellis Kalodner	Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit	Jul 27, 1946	Death 1977
Austin Leander Staley	Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit	Jul 5, 1950	Death 1978
William Henry Hastie	Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit	Jul 22, 1950	Death 1976

District courts (112)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Senate vote	ABA rating	Status
Howard C. Speakman	District Court for the District of Arizona	Apr 13, 1946			Death 1952
James Augustine Walsh	District Court for the District of Arizona	Jul 7, 1952			Death 1991
William Lee Knous	District Court for the District of Colorado	Apr 7, 1950			Death 1959
Alexander Holtzoff Associate Justice	District Court for the District of Columbia	Sep 28, 1945			Death 1969
Richmond Bowling Keech Associate Justice	District Court for the District of Columbia	Jan 24, 1947			Death 1986
Edward Matthew Curran Associate Justice	District Court for the District of Columbia	Feb 5, 1947			Death 1988
Edward Allen Tamm Associate Justice	District Court for the District of Columbia	Apr 1, 1949			Appointed to another court 1965
Charles Francis McLaughlin	District Court for the District of Columbia	Mar 1, 1950			Death 1976
James Robert Kirkland	District Court for the District of Columbia	Mar 9, 1950			Death 1958
Burnita Shelton Matthews	District Court for the District of Columbia	Apr 7, 1950			Death 1988
Walter Maximillian Bastian	District Court for the District of Columbia	Dec 22, 1950			Appointed to another court 1954
Luther Wallace Youngdahl	District Court for the District of Columbia	Aug 29, 1951			Death 1978
Richard Seymour Rodney	District Court for the District of Delaware	Jul 31, 1946			Death 1963
Arthur Johnson Mellott	District Court for the District of Kansas	Nov 29, 1945			Death 1957
Delmas Carl Hill	District Court for the District of Kansas	Mar 9, 1950			Appointed to another court 1961
John David Clifford Jr.	District Court for the District of Maine	Mar 24, 1947			Death 1956
William T. McCarthy	District Court for the District of Massachusetts	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1964
Dennis Francis Donovan	District Court for the District of Minnesota	Jul 18, 1945			Death 1974
William Daniel Murray	District Court for the District of Montana	May 9, 1949			Death 1994
Thomas M. Madden	District Court for the District of New Jersey	Oct 25, 1945			Death 1976
Alfred Egidio Modarelli	District Court for the District of New Jersey	Jan 3, 1951			Death 1957
Richard Hartshorne	District Court for the District of New Jersey	Oct 20, 1951			Death 1975
Carl A. Hatch	District Court for the District of New Mexico	Jan 21, 1949			Death 1963
Gus Jerome Solomon	District Court for the District of Oregon	Jul 5, 1950			Death 1987
Edward Lawrence Leahy	District Court for the District of Rhode Island	Jan 3, 1951			Death 1953
Willis William Ritter	District Court for the District of Utah	Jul 7, 1950			Death 1978
Ernest William Gibson Jr.	District Court for the District of Vermont	Oct 18, 1949			Death 1969
Casper Platt	District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois	Oct 13, 1949		Qualified	Death 1965
Herbert William Christenberry	District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana	Dec 20, 1947			Death 1975
James Skelly Wright	District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana	Mar 9, 1950			Appointed to another court 1962
Arthur A. Koscinski	District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan	Jul 18, 1945			Death 1957
Theodore Levin	District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan	Jul 27, 1946			Death 1970
Thomas Patrick Thornton	District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1985
Roy Winfield Harper	District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri	Aug 7, 1947			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1947
Roy Winfield Harper	District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri	Dec 20, 1947			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1948
Roy Winfield Harper	District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1994
Leo Frederick Rayfiel	District Court for the Eastern District of New York	Jul 30, 1947			Death 1978
Donnell Gilliam	District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina	May 18, 1945			Death 1960
William Robert Wallace	District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma	Jun 8, 1950			Death 1960
Frederick Voris Follmer	District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	Aug 7, 1946			Reassignment 1955
James Patrick McGranery	District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	Aug 7, 1946			Resignation 1952
Thomas James Clary	District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	Mar 9, 1950			Death 1977
Allan Kuhn Grim	District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania	Apr 7, 1950			Death 1965
Ashton Hilliard Williams	District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina	Jul 3, 1952			Death 1962
Robert Love Taylor	District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee	Mar 9, 1950			Death 1987
Joseph Warren Sheehy	District Court for the Eastern District of Texas	Jun 8, 1951			Death 1967
Albert Vickers Bryan	District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia	Jun 5, 1947		Well Qualified	Appointed to another court 1961
Samuel Marion Driver	District Court for the Eastern District of Washington	Apr 13, 1946			Death 1958
William James Lindberg	District Court for the Eastern District of Washington	Apr 25, 1951			Reassignment 1961
Robert Emmet Tehan	District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin	May 19, 1949			Death 1975
Abraham Benjamin Conger	District Court for the Middle District of Georgia	Jun 6, 1949			Death 1953
John William Murphy	District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania	May 27, 1946			Death 1962
Frederick Voris Follmer	District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania	Aug 7, 1946			Death 1971
Seybourn Harris Lynne	District Court for the Northern District of Alabama	Jan 3, 1946			Death 2000
George Bernard Harris	District Court for the Northern District of California	Jul 9, 1946			Death 1983
Dal Millington Lemmon	District Court for the Northern District of California	Feb 7, 1947			Appointed to another court 1954
Herbert Wilson Erskine	District Court for the Northern District of California	Mar 1, 1949			Death 1951
Edward Preston Murphy	District Court for the Northern District of California	Dec 21, 1950			Death 1958
Oliver Jesse Carter	District Court for the Northern District of California	Dec 21, 1950			Death 1976
Monroe Mark Friedman	District Court for the Northern District of California	Jul 17, 1952			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1953
George William Whitehurst	District Court for the Northern District of Florida	Feb 23, 1950			Death 1974
Maurice Neil Andrews	District Court for the Northern District of Georgia	Oct 21, 1949			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1950
Frank Arthur Hooper	District Court for the Northern District of Georgia	Feb 23, 1950			Death 1985
William Boyd Sloan	District Court for the Northern District of Georgia	Mar 23, 1951			Death 1970
Joseph Samuel Perry	District Court for the Northern District of Illinois	Aug 22, 1951			Death 1984
Edward S. Kampf	District Court for the Northern District of New York	Feb 8, 1946			Resignation 1948
James Thomas Foley	District Court for the Northern District of New York	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1990
Charles Joseph McNamee	District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	Mar 9, 1951			Death 1964
William Robert Wallace	District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma	Jun 8, 1950			Death 1960
Joseph Brannon Dooley	District Court for the Northern District of Texas	Jul 9, 1947	48-36		Death 1967
Daniel Holcombe Thomas	District Court for the Southern District of Alabama	Mar 9, 1951			Death 2000
William Carey Mathes	District Court for the Southern District of California	Oct 17, 1945			Death 1967
Jacob Weinberger	District Court for the Southern District of California	Feb 21, 1946			Death 1974
Harry Clay Westover	District Court for the Southern District of California	Oct 18, 1949			Death 1983
James Marshall Carter	District Court for the Southern District of California	Oct 18, 1949			Appointed to another court 1967
William Matthew Byrne Sr.	District Court for the Southern District of California	Dec 21, 1950			Reassignment 1966
Ernest Allen Tolin	District Court for the Southern District of California	Jun 11, 1952			Death 1961
George William Whitehurst	District Court for the Southern District of Florida	Feb 23, 1950			Death 1974
John Milton Bryan Simpson	District Court for the Southern District of Florida	Sep 26, 1950			Reassignment 1962
Francis Muir Scarlett	District Court for the Southern District of Georgia	Feb 14, 1946			Death 1971
William Elwood Steckler	District Court for the Southern District of Indiana	Apr 7, 1950			Death 1995
Carroll O. Switzer	District Court for the Southern District of Iowa	Oct 21, 1949			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1950
William F. Riley	District Court for the Southern District of Iowa	Dec 27, 1950			Death 1956
Harold Raymond Medina	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Jun 20, 1947			Appointed to another court 1951
Sylvester J. Ryan	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Dec 20, 1947			Death 1981
Samuel Hamilton Kaufman	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1960
John F. X. McGohey	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Mar 9, 1950			Death 1972
Irving Robert Kaufman	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Apr 7, 1950			Appointed to another court 1961
Gregory Francis Noonan	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Apr 26, 1950			Death 1964
Sidney Sugarman	District Court for the Southern District of New York	May 1, 1950			Death 1974
Edward Weinfeld	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Aug 5, 1950			Death 1988
Thomas Francis Murphy	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Jul 2, 1951			Death 1995
Edward Jordan Dimock	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Jul 11, 1951			Death 1986
David Norton Edelstein	District Court for the Southern District of New York	Apr 8, 1952			Death 2000
Ben Clarkson Connally	District Court for the Southern District of Texas	Oct 13, 1949			Death 1975
James V. Allred	District Court for the Southern District of Texas	Oct 13, 1949			Death 1959
Roy Mahlon Shelbourne	District Court for the Western District of Kentucky	Feb 8, 1946			Death 1974
Raymond Wesley Starr	District Court for the Western District of Michigan	Jul 25, 1946			Death 1968
Roy Winfield Harper	District Court for the Western District of Missouri	Aug 7, 1947			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1947
Roy Winfield Harper	District Court for the Western District of Missouri	Dec 20, 1947			Recess appointment, not confirmed 1948
Roy Winfield Harper	District Court for the Western District of Missouri	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1994
David Ezekiel Henderson	District Court for the Western District of North Carolina	Sep 1, 1948			Resignation 1949
Wilson Warlick	District Court for the Western District of North Carolina	Feb 2, 1949			Death 1978
William Robert Wallace	District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma	Jun 8, 1950			Death 1960
Wallace Samuel Gourley	District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	Nov 29, 1945			Death 1976
Frederick Voris Follmer	District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	Aug 7, 1946			Reassignment 1955
Owen McIntosh Burns	District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	Mar 9, 1950			Death 1952
Rabe Ferguson Marsh Jr.	District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	Jun 8, 1950			Death 1993
William Alvah Stewart	District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania	Apr 25, 1951			Death 1953
Ben Herbert Rice Jr.	District Court for the Western District of Texas	Sep 28, 1945			Death 1964
Robert Ewing Thomason	District Court for the Western District of Texas	Jun 5, 1947			Death 1973
William James Lindberg	District Court for the Western District of Washington	Apr 25, 1951			Death 1981

Other courts (9)

Judge	Court	Commissioned	Status
John Marvin Jones Chief Justice	Court of Claims	Jul 9, 1947	Reassignment 1948
George Evan Howell	Court of Claims	Jul 30, 1947	Resignation 1953
Noble Jacob Johnson Associate Judge	Court of Customs and Patent Appeals	Jun 10, 1948	Appointed to another court 1956
Francis Eugene Worley Associate Judge	Court of Customs and Patent Appeals	Mar 9, 1950	Appointed to another court 1959
William Purrington Cole Associate Judge	Court of Customs and Patent Appeals	Jul 7, 1952	Death 1957
Irvin Charles Mollison	Customs Court	Oct 29, 1945	Death 1962
Jed Joseph Johnson	Customs Court	Jun 25, 1947	Death 1963
Paul Peter Rao	Customs Court	Feb 2, 1949	Reassignment 1980
Morgan Dennis Ford	Customs Court	Jul 15, 1949	Reassignment 1980

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Source: Federal Judicial Center. Updated November 9, 2026.