United States court of Appeals for the Third Circuit - wikipedia United States court of Appeals for the Third Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ( 3d Cir. ) Location James A. Byrne U.S. Courthouse ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) Appeals from District of Delaware District of New Jersey Eastern District of Pennsylvania Middle District of Pennsylvania Western District of Pennsylvania District of the Virgin Islands Established June 16, 1891 Circuit Justice Samuel Alito Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith Active judges 14 Senior judges 11 Official site The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ( in case citations, 3d Cir. ) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts : District of Delaware District of New Jersey Eastern District of Pennsylvania Middle District of Pennsylvania Western District of Pennsylvania It also has appellate jurisdiction over the District Court of the Virgin Islands. This court was created under Article IV of the U.S. Constitution, rather than Article III under which the other district courts in the Circuit were created. The court is composed of 14 active judges and is based at the James A. Byrne Courthouse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The court also conducts sittings in other venues, including the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is one of thirteen United States courts of appeals. Due to the court 's appellate jurisdiction over Delaware ( where more than half of publicly traded companies in the United States incorporate ), the court handles a significant number of influential commercial cases in the United States. Contents 1 Current composition of the court 2 Vacancies and pending nominations 3 List of former judges 4 Chief judges 5 Succession of seats 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Current composition of the court As of November 20, 2017, the judges on the court are as follows : # Title Judge Duty station Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior 56 Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith Duncansville, PA 1951 2002 -- present 2016 -- present -- G.W. Bush 50 Circuit Judge Theodore McKee Philadelphia, PA 1947 1994 -- present 2010 -- 2016 -- Clinton 54 Circuit Judge Thomas L. Ambro Wilmington, DE 1949 2000 -- present -- -- Clinton 60 Circuit Judge Michael Chagares Newark, NJ 1962 2006 -- present -- -- G.W. Bush 61 Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan Wilmington, DE 1957 2006 -- present -- -- G.W. Bush 62 Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman Pittsburgh, PA 1965 2007 -- present -- -- G.W. Bush 63 Circuit Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. Newark, NJ 1957 2010 -- present -- -- Obama 64 Circuit Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie Scranton, PA 1953 2010 -- present -- -- Obama 65 Circuit Judge Patty Shwartz Newark, NJ 1961 2013 -- present -- -- Obama 66 Circuit Judge Cheryl Ann Krause Philadelphia, PA 1968 2014 -- present -- -- Obama 67 Circuit Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo Philadelphia, PA 1959 2016 -- present -- -- Obama 68 Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas Philadelphia, PA 1969 2017 -- present -- -- Trump 69 Circuit Judge vacant -- -- -- -- -- -- 70 Circuit Judge vacant -- -- -- -- -- -- 38 Senior Circuit Judge Dolores Korman Sloviter inactive 1932 1979 -- 2013 1991 -- 1998 2013 -- present Carter 41 Senior Circuit Judge Walter King Stapleton Wilmington, DE 1934 1985 -- 1999 -- 1999 -- present Reagan 42 Senior Circuit Judge Morton Ira Greenberg Trenton, NJ 1933 1987 -- 2000 -- 2000 -- present Reagan 44 Senior Circuit Judge Anthony Joseph Scirica Philadelphia, PA 1940 1987 -- 2013 2003 -- 2010 2013 -- present Reagan 45 Senior Circuit Judge Robert E. Cowen Trenton, NJ 1930 1987 -- 1998 -- 1998 -- present Reagan 46 Senior Circuit Judge Richard Lowell Nygaard Erie, PA 1940 1988 -- 2005 -- 2005 -- present Reagan 48 Senior Circuit Judge Jane Richards Roth Washington, DC 1935 1991 -- 2006 -- 2006 -- present G.H.W. Bush 52 Senior Circuit Judge Marjorie O. Rendell Philadelphia, PA 1947 1997 -- 2015 -- 2015 -- present Clinton 53 Senior Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry inactive 1937 1999 -- 2011 -- 2011 -- present Clinton 55 Senior Circuit Judge Julio M. Fuentes Newark, NJ 1946 2000 -- 2016 -- 2016 -- present Clinton 58 Senior Circuit Judge D. Michael Fisher Pittsburgh, PA 1944 2003 -- 2017 -- 2017 -- present G.W. Bush Vacancies and pending nominations Seat Prior Judge 's Duty Station Seat Last Held By Vacancy Reason Date of Vacancy Nominee Date of Nomination Newark, NJ Julio M. Fuentes Senior status July 18, 2016 Paul Matey April 12, 2018 11 Pittsburgh, PA D. Michael Fisher February 1, 2017 David J. Porter List of former judges # Judge State Born -- died Active service Chief Judge Senior status Appointed by Reason for termination Marcus Wilson Acheson PA 1828 -- 1906 1891 -- 1906 -- -- B. Harrison death George M. Dallas PA 1839 -- 1917 1892 -- 1909 -- -- B. Harrison retirement George Gray DE 1840 -- 1925 1899 -- 1914 -- -- McKinley retirement Joseph Buffington PA 1855 -- 1947 1906 -- 1938 -- 1938 -- 1947 T. Roosevelt death 5 William M. Lanning NJ 1849 -- 1912 1909 -- 1912 -- -- Taft death 6 John Bayard McPherson PA 1846 -- 1919 1912 -- 1919 -- -- Taft death 7 Victor Baynard Woolley DE 1867 -- 1945 1914 -- 1938 -- 1938 -- 1945 Wilson death 8 Thomas Griffith Haight NJ 1879 -- 1942 1919 -- 1920 -- -- Wilson resignation 9 John Warren Davis NJ 1867 -- 1945 1920 -- 1939 -- 1939 -- 1941 Wilson resignation 10 Joseph Whitaker Thompson PA 1861 -- 1946 1931 -- 1938 -- 1938 -- 1946 Hoover death 11 John Biggs Jr. DE 1895 -- 1979 1937 -- 1965 1948 -- 1965 1965 -- 1979 F. Roosevelt death 12 Albert Branson Maris PA 1893 -- 1989 1938 -- 1958 -- 1958 -- 1989 F. Roosevelt death 13 William Clark NJ 1891 -- 1957 1938 -- 1943 -- -- F. Roosevelt resignation 14 Francis Biddle PA 1886 -- 1968 1939 -- 1940 -- -- F. Roosevelt resignation 15 Charles Alvin Jones PA 1887 -- 1966 1939 -- 1944 -- -- F. Roosevelt resignation 16 Herbert Funk Goodrich PA 1889 -- 1962 1940 -- 1962 -- -- F. Roosevelt death 17 Gerald McLaughlin NJ 1893 -- 1977 1943 -- 1968 -- 1968 -- 1977 F. Roosevelt death 18 John Joseph O'Connell PA 1894 -- 1949 1945 -- 1949 -- -- Truman death 19 Harry Ellis Kalodner PA 1896 -- 1977 1946 -- 1969 1965 -- 1966 1969 -- 1977 Truman death 20 William H. Hastie VI 1904 -- 1976 1949 -- 1971 1968 -- 1971 1971 -- 1976 Truman death 21 Austin Leander Staley PA 1902 -- 1978 1950 -- 1967 1966 -- 1967 1967 -- 1978 Truman death 22 Phillip Forman NJ 1895 -- 1978 1959 -- 1961 -- 1961 -- 1978 Eisenhower death 23 James Cullen Ganey PA 1899 -- 1972 1961 -- 1966 -- 1966 -- 1972 Kennedy death 24 William Francis Smith NJ 1903 -- 1968 1961 -- 1968 -- -- Kennedy death 25 Abraham Lincoln Freedman PA 1904 -- 1971 1964 -- 1971 -- -- L. Johnson death 26 Collins J. Seitz DE 1914 -- 1998 1966 -- 1989 1971 -- 1984 1989 -- 1998 L. Johnson death 27 Francis Lund Van Dusen PA 1912 -- 1993 1967 -- 1977 -- 1977 -- 1993 L. Johnson death 28 Ruggero J. Aldisert PA 1919 -- 2014 1968 -- 1986 1984 -- 1986 1986 -- 2014 L. Johnson death 29 David Henry Stahl PA 1920 -- 1970 1968 -- 1970 -- -- L. Johnson death 30 Arlin M. Adams PA 1921 -- 2015 1969 -- 1987 -- -- Nixon retirement 31 John Joseph Gibbons NJ 1924 -- present 1969 -- 1990 1987 -- 1990 -- Nixon retirement 32 Max Rosenn PA 1910 -- 2006 1970 -- 1981 -- 1981 -- 2006 Nixon death 33 James Rosen NJ 1909 -- 1972 1971 -- 1972 -- -- Nixon death 34 James Hunter III NJ 1916 -- 1989 1971 -- 1986 -- 1986 -- 1989 Nixon death 35 Joseph F. Weis Jr. PA 1923 -- 2014 1973 -- 1988 -- 1988 -- 2014 Nixon death 36 Leonard I. Garth NJ 1921 -- 2016 1973 -- 1986 -- 1986 -- 2016 Nixon death 37 A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. PA 1928 -- 1998 1977 -- 1991 1990 -- 1991 1991 -- 1993 Carter retirement 39 Edward Roy Becker PA 1933 -- 2006 1981 -- 2003 1998 -- 2003 2003 -- 2006 Reagan death 40 Carol Los Mansmann PA 1942 -- 2002 1985 -- 2002 -- -- Reagan death 43 William D. Hutchinson PA 1932 -- 1995 1987 -- 1995 -- -- Reagan death 47 Samuel Alito NJ 1950 -- present 1990 -- 2006 -- -- G.H.W. Bush elevated to Supreme Court 49 Timothy K. Lewis PA 1954 -- present 1992 -- 1999 -- -- G.H.W. Bush resignation 51 H. Lee Sarokin NJ 1928 -- present 1994 -- 1996 -- -- Clinton retirement 57 Michael Chertoff NJ 1953 -- present 2003 -- 2005 -- -- G.W. Bush resignation 59 Franklin Van Antwerpen PA 1941 -- 2016 2004 -- 2006 -- 2006 -- 2016 G.W. Bush death Jump up ^ Acheson was appointed as a circuit judge for the Third Circuit in 1891 by Benjamin Harrison. The Judiciary Act of 1891 reassigned his seat to what is now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Chief judges Chief judges have administrative responsibilities with respect to their circuits, and preside over any panel on which they serve unless the circuit justice ( i.e., the Supreme Court justice responsible for the circuit ) is also on the panel. Unlike the Supreme Court, where one justice is specifically nominated to be chief, the office of chief judge rotates among the circuit judges. To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years or until age 70, whichever occurs first. The age restrictions are waived if no members of the court would otherwise be qualified for the position. When the office was created in 1948, the chief judge was the longest - serving judge who had not elected to retire on what has since 1958 been known as senior status or declined to serve as chief judge. After August 6, 1959, judges could not become or remain chief after turning 70 years old. The current rules have been in operation since October 1, 1982. Succession of seats The court has fourteen seats for active judges, numbered in the order in which they were filled. Judges who retire into senior status remain on the bench but leave their seat vacant. That seat is filled by the next circuit judge appointed by the president. Seat 1 Established on December 10, 1869 by the Judiciary Act of 1869 as a circuit judgeship for the Third Circuit Reassigned on June 16, 1891 to the newly formed United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit by the Judiciary Act of 1891 Acheson PA 1892 -- 1906 Buffington PA 1906 -- 1938 Biddle PA 1939 -- 1940 Goodrich PA 1940 -- 1962 Freedman PA 1964 -- 1971 Weis, Jr. PA 1973 -- 1988 Nygaard PA 1988 -- 2005 Hardiman PA 2007 -- present Seat 2 Established on June 16, 1891 by the Judiciary Act of 1891 Dallas PA 1892 -- 1909 Lanning NJ 1909 -- 1912 McPherson PA 1912 -- 1919 Haight NJ 1919 -- 1920 Davis NJ 1920 -- 1939 Jones PA 1939 -- 1944 Kalodner PA 1946 -- 1969 Adams PA 1969 -- 1987 Hutchinson PA 1987 -- 1995 Rendell PA 1997 -- 2015 Bibas PA 2017 -- present Seat 3 Established on February 23, 1899 by 30 Stat. 846 Gray DE 1899 -- 1914 Woolley DE 1914 -- 1938 Maris PA 1938 -- 1958 Forman NJ 1959 -- 1961 W. Smith NJ 1961 -- 1968 Hunter III NJ 1971 -- 1986 Cowen NJ 1987 -- 1998 Fuentes NJ 2000 -- 2016 vacant N / A 2016 -- present Seat 4 Established on June 10, 1930 by 46 Stat. 538 Thompson PA 1931 -- 1938 Clark NJ 1938 -- 1943 McLaughlin NJ 1943 -- 1968 Gibbons NJ 1969 -- 1990 Alito NJ 1990 -- 2006 Greenaway, Jr. NJ 2010 -- present Seat 5 Established as a temporary judgeship on June 24, 1936 by 49 Stat. 1903 Made permanent on May 31, 1938 by 52 Stat. 584 Biggs, Jr. DE 1937 -- 1965 Seitz DE 1966 -- 1989 Roth DE 1991 -- 2006 Jordan DE 2006 -- present Seat 6 Established on December 7, 1944 by 58 Stat. 796 O'Connell PA 1945 -- 1949 Staley PA 1950 -- 1967 Aldisert PA 1968 -- 1986 Scirica PA 1987 -- 2013 Restrepo PA 2016 -- present Seat 7 Established on August 3, 1949 by 63 Stat. 493 Hastie VI 1950 -- 1971 Rosen NJ 1971 -- 1972 Garth NJ 1973 -- 1986 Greenberg NJ 1987 -- 2000 Chertoff NJ 2003 -- 2005 Chagares NJ 2006 -- present Seat 8 Established on May 19, 1961 by 75 Stat. 80 Ganey PA 1961 -- 1966 Van Dusen PA 1967 -- 1977 Higginbotham, Jr. PA 1977 -- 1991 McKee PA 1994 -- present Seat 9 Established on June 18, 1968 by 82 Stat. 184 Stahl PA 1968 -- 1970 Rosenn PA 1970 -- 1981 Becker PA 1981 -- 2003 Van Antwerpen PA 2004 -- 2006 Vanaskie PA 2010 -- present Seat 10 Established on October 20, 1978 by 92 Stat. 1629 Sloviter PA 1979 -- 2013 Krause PA 2014 -- present Seat 11 Established on July 10, 1984 by 98 Stat. 333 Mansmann PA 1985 -- 2002 Fisher PA 2003 -- 2017 vacant N / A 2017 -- present Seat 12 Established on July 10, 1984 by 98 Stat. 333 Stapleton DE 1985 -- 1999 Ambro DE 2000 -- present Seat 13 Established on December 1, 1990 by 104 Stat. 5089 Lewis PA 1992 -- 1999 D. Smith PA 2002 -- present Seat 14 Established on December 1, 1990 by 104 Stat. 5089 Sarokin NJ 1994 -- 1996 Barry NJ 1999 -- 2011 Shwartz NJ 2013 -- present See also Wikisource has original works on the topic : United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Federal judicial appointment history # Third Circuit References Jump up ^ `` Notice for Sitting in Virgin Islands '' ( PDF ). Official website of the Third Circuit. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2013 - 04 - 01. Retrieved 2013 - 03 - 06. Jump up ^ `` U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ''. Official website of the Federal Judicial Center. Archived from the original on 2005 - 05 - 25. Retrieved 2005 - 05 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judges '' ( PDF ). Official website of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2005 - 05 - 10. Retrieved 2005 - 05 - 30. Jump up ^ `` Trump 's sister takes inactive status on US appeals court '' The Republic, February 2, 2017 ^ Jump up to : Recess appointment, confirmed by the United States Senate at a later date. External links United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Recent opinions from Findlaw Current judges of the United States courts of appeals 1st Circuit Active Howard Torruella Lynch Thompson Kayatta Barron Senior Campbell Selya Boudin Stahl Lipez 2nd Circuit Active Katzmann Jacobs Cabranes Pooler Raggi Hall Livingston Chin Lohier Carney Droney 2 seats vacant Senior Newman Kearse Winter Walker Leval Calabresi Straub Sack Parker Wesley Lynch 3rd Circuit Active D. Smith McKee Ambro Chagares Jordan Hardiman Greenaway Vanaskie Shwartz Krause Restrepo Bibas 2 seats vacant Senior Sloviter Stapleton Greenberg Scirica Cowen Nygaard Roth Rendell Barry Fuentes Fisher 4th Circuit Active Gregory Wilkinson Niemeyer Motz Traxler King Duncan Agee Keenan Wynn Diaz Floyd Thacker Harris 1 seat vacant Senior Hamilton Shedd 5th Circuit Active Stewart Jones Smith Dennis Owen Elrod Southwick Haynes Graves Higginson Costa Willett Ho Duncan Engelhardt 2 seats vacant Senior King Reavley Higginbotham Jolly Davis Duhé Barksdale Wiener Benavides Clement 6th Circuit Active Cole Batchelder Moore Clay Gibbons Sutton Cook Griffin Kethledge White Stranch Donald Thapar Bush Larsen Nalbandian Senior Keith Merritt Wellford Guy Ryan Boggs Norris Suhrheinrich Siler Daughtrey Gilman Rogers McKeague 7th Circuit Active Wood Flaum Easterbrook Kanne Rovner Sykes Hamilton Barrett Brennan Scudder St. Eve Senior Bauer Ripple Manion 8th Circuit Active L. Smith Wollman Loken Colloton Gruender Benton Shepherd Kelly Erickson Grasz Stras Senior Bowman Beam Hansen Arnold Riley Melloy 9th Circuit Active Thomas Graber McKeown Wardlaw Fletcher Gould Paez Berzon Rawlinson Bybee Callahan Bea M. Smith Ikuta N. Smith Murguia Christen Nguyen Watford Hurwitz Owens Friedland Bennett 6 seats vacant Senior Goodwin Wallace Schroeder Farris Nelson Canby O'Scannlain Leavy Trott Fernandez Kleinfeld Hawkins Tashima Fisher Silverman Tallman Clifton 10th Circuit Active Tymkovich Briscoe Lucero Hartz Holmes Matheson Bacharach Phillips McHugh Moritz Eid Carson Senior McKay Seymour Porfilio Anderson Baldock Brorby Ebel Kelly Murphy O'Brien 11th Circuit Active E. Carnes Tjoflat Marcus Wilson W. Pryor Martin Jordan Rosenbaum J. Pryor Newsom Branch 1 seat vacant Senior Fay Anderson Edmondson Cox Dubina Black Hull J. Carnes D.C. Circuit Active Garland Henderson Rogers Tatel Griffith Kavanaugh Srinivasan Millett Pillard Wilkins Katsas Senior Edwards Silberman Buckley Williams Ginsburg Sentelle Randolph Federal Circuit Active Prost Newman Lourie Dyk Moore O'Malley Reyna Wallach Taranto Chen Hughes Stoll Senior Mayer Plager Clevenger Schall Bryson Linn Current senior judges of the United States courts of appeals 1st Circuit Campbell Selya Boudin Stahl Lipez 2nd Circuit Newman Kearse Winter Walker Leval Calabresi Straub Sack Parker Wesley Lynch 3rd Circuit Sloviter Stapleton Greenberg Scirica Cowen Nygaard Roth Rendell Barry Fuentes Fisher 4th Circuit Hamilton Shedd 5th Circuit King Reavley Higginbotham Jolly Davis Duhé Jr. Barksdale Wiener Benavides Clement 6th Circuit Keith Merritt Wellford Guy Ryan Boggs Norris Suhrheinrich Siler Daughtrey Gilman Rogers McKeague 7th Circuit Bauer Ripple Manion 8th Circuit Bowman Beam Hansen Arnold Riley Melloy 9th Circuit Goodwin Wallace Schroeder Farris Nelson Canby O'Scannlain Leavy Trott Fernandez Kleinfeld Hawkins Tashima Silverman Fisher Tallman Clifton 10th Circuit McKay Seymour Porfilio Anderson Baldock Brorby Ebel Kelly Murphy O'Brien 11th Circuit Fay Anderson Edmondson Cox Dubina Black Hull J. Carnes D.C. Circuit Edwards Silberman Buckley Williams Ginsburg Sentelle Randolph Federal Circuit Mayer Plager Clevenger Schall Bryson Linn Current active district judges of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Delaware Stark Andrews 2 seats vacant New Jersey Linares Kugler Wolfson Bumb Hillman Wigenton Cecchi Salas McNulty Shipp Arleo Vazquez Martinotti 4 seats vacant E. Pennsylvania Stengel Tucker Rufe Savage Pratter Diamond Sanchez Slomsky Jones Goldberg Quiñones Schmehl McHugh Smith Beetlestone Kearney Pappert Leeson 4 seats vacant M. Pennsylvania Conner Kane Jones Mariani Mannion Brann W. Pennsylvania Conti Fischer Bissoon Hornak 6 seats vacant Virgin Islands Lewis Gomez Current senior district judges of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Delaware Longobardi Sleet New Jersey Thompson Rodriguez Cooper Simandle Walls Hayden Martini Chesler Sheridan E. Pennsylvania Ditter VanArtsdalen Kelly Reed DuBois Buckwalter Bartle Yohn Padova Joyner Robreno Brody McLaughlin Schiller Surrick Davis Baylson M. Pennsylvania Nealon Conaboy Rambo Caldwell Kosik Caputo Munley W. Pennsylvania Cohill Diamond Bloch Ambrose Cercone McVerry Schwab Gibson Virgin Islands Finch United States courts of appeals 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th D.C. Federal Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Third_Circuit&oldid=850517976 '' Categories : United States courts of appeals United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Newark, New Jersey Hidden categories : Articles with hCards Year of establishment missing Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español فارسی Français Galego Nederlands Русский 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 16 July 2018, at 11 : 20 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: 16. what us supreme court justice looks after the 3rd circuit
Answer: Samuel Alito