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U.S. Circuit Court Nominees Confirmed
During the First Year of the Biden Presidency:
Overview and Comparative Analysis
January 5, 2022
This Insight provides information related to the number of U.S. circuit court nominees confirmed during
the first calendar year of the Biden presidency (2021), as well as information about the number of such
nominees confirmed during the first years of presidencies from 1953 to 2017. Additionally, this Insight
provides demographic information about President Biden's confirmed nominees, as well as the nominees
confirmed during the first years of the presidencies of his three immediate predecessors-Presidents
Trump, Obama, and George W. Bush. Another Insight, available here, provides similar information about
U.S. district court nominees.
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals
The U.S. courts of appeals, or circuit courts, hear challenges to U.S. district court decisions and also
review the decisions of many administrative agencies. The United States is divided into 12 geographic
circuits, each with a U.S. court of appeals. One additional appellate court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, has specialized subject matter jurisdiction. The U.S. courts of appeals provide final
decisions each year in thousands of cases.
Number of Confirmed Nominees
President Biden had 11 U.S. circuit court nominees confirmed during his first calendar year in office. As
shown by Figure 1, this is the second-highest number of circuit court nominees confirmed during the first
year of a presidency since 1953 (there were also 11 circuit court nominees confirmed during the first
years of the Kennedy and Nixon presidencies). Of the 11 presidencies included in Figure 1, the greatest
number of circuit court nominees confirmed during the first year of a presidency is 12 (in 2017 during the
first year of the Trump presidency).
The 11 circuit court nominees confirmed during the first year of the Biden presidency is above the median
number of such nominees confirmed during the first year of the 11 presidencies included in the figure
(with a median of 8 confirmed nominees). The relatively greater number of circuit court nominees
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