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Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is one of the thirteen U.S. Courts of Appeals — the intermediate appellate courts of the federal judiciary that sit between the district courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. This page lists every judge of the court The Candidate tracks: those in regular active service, shown first; those who have taken senior status; and former judges whose circuit service has ended. A senior judge is not retired — having met the age-and-service threshold set by statute, a senior judge continues to hear cases on a reduced caseload while opening a seat for a new appointment, so each senior judge below is still a sitting Article III judge. Former judges include those who left the court by elevation to the Supreme Court, resignation, retirement, or death — their circuit service ended, even when the same person continues to serve elsewhere (a sitting Justice's former circuit page never says "Former Justice"). Circuit judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, and under Article III of the Constitution they hold office during good behavior — in practice, for life, until they resign, are impeached, elevated, or die in office. Unlike senators and representatives, a circuit judge represents no state and belongs to no party while serving; each profile records the President who appointed the judge, the seat they fill, their confirmation and commission dates, and their full span of service, but never assigns the judge a party of their own. Each row links to a sourced page covering the judge's biography, appointment and service record, and the external authority records — the Federal Judicial Center Biographical Directory, Wikipedia, and Wikidata — that back every fact. The full machine-readable roster is published as a versioned JSON dataset for downstream researchers and language models.

In active service

17

Senior status

7

Currently serving

24

Former judges

49

Court

www.ca5.uscourts.gov