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Following is a list of all Article III
File:John Paul Stevens, SCOTUS photo portrait.jpg, John Paul Stevens was Ford's only Supreme Court appointment.
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Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judge
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s appointed by President
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Gerald Ford during his presidency. In total Ford appointed 65 Article III federal judges, including 1 Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States, 12 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals
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, and 52 judges to the United States district courts
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None of Ford's appointees remain in active service, however 2 appellate judges and 4 district judges remain on senior status
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. Five additional judges appointed by Ford to district courts remain on senior status as appellate judges by appointment of later presidents, as is one appellate judge appointed to the Supreme Court.https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/kennedy-anthony-mcleod
Anthony Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by Presid ...
, named by Ford to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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, was later elevated to the Supreme Court.
File:Judgetorruella.JPG, Ford appointed Juan R. Torruella
Juan Rafael Torruella del Valle Sr. (June 7, 1933October 26, 2020) was a Puerto Rican jurist. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1984 until his death, and as chief judge of ...
to the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
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; Torruella was later elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
United States Supreme Court justices
Courts of appeals
District courts
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