Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-493) and index.
Contents:
The articles of confederation -- The constitution -- Establishing the federal judiciary -- Selection of federal district judges -- Missouri's first Federal District Court -- Samuel Treat and the Eastern Federal District -- The Cleveland Court 1887-1905 -- From Teddy to FDR -- The FDR Court -- The court's Curmudgeon -- Ike, JFK, and LBJ -- The Nixon appointees -- The Carter Court -- Reagan's judges -- The first woman district judge -- Bush 41's final appointments -- The Clinton appointees, 1993-1994 -- The Clinton appointees, 1995-1997 -- The twenty-first century judges -- The magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges.
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