Biden’s 100th U.S. District Court Judge Confirmed

President Joe Biden speaks during an event about lowering health care costs in the East Room of the White House on July 7, 2023, in Washington, DC. President Biden announced a series of new actions under his Bidenomics agenda to lower healthcare costs and crack down on junk fees for consumers. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

There’s been a lot of attention recently on the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) and its rulings this term (you can read our coverage and analysis of those cases here). The federal judicial system encompasses nearly 1,770 judgeships across 209 courts. And about half of those judges are appointed by the president to life terms. 

Witness Mark L. Wolf, Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, listens to opening statements during a Senate Judiciary – Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Hearings to examine Federal judicial ethics processes at the Judicial Conference of the United States at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 17, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)