List of Judges of the United States Tax Court

The United States Tax Court is composed of 19 members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.[1] Reappointment, when requested by a Tax Court judge[2] is generally pro forma regardless of the political party of the appointing President and the political party of the re-appointing (sitting) President. By statute, Congress has granted to the President the power to remove the judges of the U.S. Tax Court "for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office...." [3]

In addition, the Chief Judge may appoint a number of Special Trial Judges, who serve a function comparable to magistrate judges in the United States district courts.

Current composition of the court

As of September 9, 2020:

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service			Appointed by
					Active	Chief	Senior
—	Chief Judge	Maurice B. Foley	Washington, D.C.	1960	1995–2010 2011–present	2018–present	—	Clinton Obama (reappointment)
—	Judge	Joseph H. Gale	Washington, D.C.	1953	1996–2011 2011–present	—	—	Clinton Obama (reappointment)
—	Judge	Michael B. Thornton	Washington, D.C.	1954	1998–2013 2013–present	2012–2013 2013–2016	—	Clinton Obama (reappointment)
—	Judge	David Gustafson	Washington, D.C.	1956	2008–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
—	Judge	Elizabeth Crewson Paris	Washington, D.C.	1958	2008–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
—	Judge	Richard T. Morrison	Washington, D.C.	1967	2008–present	—	—	G.W. Bush
—	Judge	Kathleen Kerrigan	Washington, D.C.	1964	2012–present	—	—	Obama
—	Judge	Ronald Lee Buch	Washington, D.C.	1965	2013–present	—	—	Obama
—	Judge	Joseph W. Nega	Washington, D.C.	1959	2013–present	—	—	Obama
—	Judge	Cary Douglas Pugh	Washington, D.C.	1966	2014–present	—	—	Obama
—	Judge	Tamara W. Ashford	Washington, D.C.	1968	2014–present	—	—	Obama
—	Judge	Patrick J. Urda	Washington, D.C.	1976	2018–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	Elizabeth Ann Copeland	Washington, D.C.	1964	2018–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	Courtney Dunbar Jones	Washington, D.C.	1978	2019–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	Emin Toro	Washington, D.C.	1974	2019–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	Travis A. Greaves	Washington, D.C.	1983	2020–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	Alina I. Marshall	Washington, D.C.	1977	2020–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	Christian N. Weiler	Washington, D.C.	1979	2020–present	—	—	Trump
—	Judge	vacant	Washington, D.C.	—	—	—	—	—
—	Senior Judge	Mary Ann Cohen	Washington, D.C.	—	1982–1997 1997–2012	1996–1997 1997–2000	2012–present	Reagan Clinton (reappointment)
—	Senior Judge	Thomas B. Wells	Washington, D.C.	1945	1986–2001 2001–2011	1997–1997 2000–2004	2001–present	Reagan G.W. Bush (reappointment)
—	Senior Judge	Robert Ruwe	Washington, D.C.	1941	1987–2002	—	2002–present	Reagan
—	Senior Judge	John O. Colvin	Washington, D.C.	1946	1988–2003 2004–2016	2006–2012 2013–2013	2016–present	Reagan G.W. Bush (reappointment)
—	Senior Judge	James Halpern	Washington, D.C.	1945	1990–2005 2005–2015	—	2015–present	G.H.W. Bush G.W. Bush (reappointment)
—	Senior Judge	Juan F. Vasquez	Washington, D.C.	1948	1995–2010 2011–2018	—	2018–present	Clinton Obama (reappointment)
—	Senior Judge	L. Paige Marvel	Washington, D.C.	1949	1998–2013 2014–2019	2016–2018	2019–present	Clinton Obama (reappointment)
—	Senior Judge	Joseph Robert Goeke	Washington, D.C.	1950	2003–2018	—	2018–present	G.W. Bush
—	Senior Judge	Mark V. Holmes	Washington, D.C.	1960	2003–2018	—	2018–present	G.W. Bush
—	Senior Judge	Albert G. Lauber	Washington, D.C.	1950	2013–2020	—	2020–present	Obama

Current special trial judges

As of August 31, 2019, the special trial judges on the court are as follows:

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service			Appointed by
					Active	Chief	Senior
—	Chief Judge	Lewis R. Carluzzo	Washington, D.C.	1949	1994–present	2017–present	—	—
—	Judge	Peter Panuthos	Washington, D.C.	1943	1983–present	1992–2017	—	—
—	Judge	Daniel A. Guy Jr.	Washington, D.C.	—	2012–present	—	—	—
—	Judge	Diana Leyden	Washington, D.C.	—	2016–present	—	—	—

Vacancies and pending nominations

Seat	Seat last held by	Vacancy reason	Date of vacancy	Nominee	Date of nomination
–	Mark V. Holmes	Expiration of term	June 29, 2018	–	–

Members of the Board of Tax Appeals (1924–1942)

Member	Began active service	Ended active service	Notes
Jed Cobb Adams	1933	1935	Died in office.
William W. Arnold[4]	1935	1942
C. Rogers Arundell[4]	1925	1942
Eugene Black[4]	1929	1942
Richard L. Disney[4]	1936	1942
Edgar J. Goodrich	1931	1935
Adolphus E. Graupner	1924	1926
William R. Green Jr.	1925	1929
Charles D. Hamel	1924	1925
Marion Janet Harron[4]	1936	1942
Samuel B. Hill[4]	1936	1942
James S.Y. Ivins[5]	1924	1925
Albert E. James	1924	1926
John W. Kern Jr.[4]	1937	1942
Jules Gilmer Korner Jr.	1924	1927
W.C. Lansdon	1924	1934
James Russell Leech[4][6]	1932	1942
Benjamin H. Littleton	1924	1929
William D. Love	1925	1933
John J. Marquette	1924	1935
Annabel Matthews	1930	1933
Stephen J. McMahon	1929	1936
Arthur Johnson Mellott[4]	1935	1942
John B. Milliken	1926	1929
Justin Miller	1937	1937	Appointed to a different court.
Logan Morris	1925	1937
J. Edgar Murdock[4]	1926	1942
Clarence V. Opper[4]	1938	1942
Percy W. Phillips[5]	1924	1931
Herbert F. Seawell	1929	1936
Forest D. Siefkin	1927	1929
Charles P. Smith[4]	1924	1942
John M. Sternhagen[4]	1924	1942
Charles M. Trammell	1924	1936
Sumner L. Trussell	1924	1931	Died in office.
Bolon B. Turner[4]	1934	1942
John A. Tyson[4]	1935	1942
Ernest H. Van Fossan[4]	1926	1942

Former Tax Court judges

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior service
William W. Arnold[4]	1942	1950
C. Rogers Arundell[4]	1942	1969
Craig S. Atkins	1955	1972
Arnold R. Baar	1954	1954	Died in office.
Renato Beghe	1999	2003	2012
Eugene Black[4]	1942	1966
J. Gregory Bruce	1952	1967
Herbert Chabot	1978	1993	2001
Carolyn Chiechi	1992	2007
Charles Clapp	1983	1993	1998
Howard Dawson	1962	1985	2016
Richard L. Disney[4]	1942	1951
William Miller Drennen	1958	1972	2000
Sheldon V. Ekman	1980	1982	Died in office.
William M. Fay	1961	2000	2000
C. Moxley Featherston	1967	1983	1991
Morton P. Fisher	1954	1964	Died in office.
Bruce M. Forrester	1957	1978	1984
Joel Gerber	1984 2000	1999 2006	2000 2020
William A. Goffe	1971	1986	1992
Harry Haines	2003	2008	2016
Cynthia H. Hall	1972	1981	Appointed to a different court.
Lapsley W. Hamblen Jr.	1982	1996
Byron B. Harlan	1946	1949	Died in office.
Marion Janet Harron[4]	1942	1960
Samuel B. Hill[4]	1942	1953
Austin Hoyt	1962	1973	1976
Jules G. Körner III	1981	1997
Leo H. Irwin[7]	1968	1983
Julian Jacobs	1984	1999	2019[8]
Luther Alexander Johnson[9]	1946	1956
John W. Kern Jr.[4]	1942	1961	1971
Diane Kroupa	2003	2014
David Laro	1992	2007	2018
James Russell Leech[4][10]	1942	1952
Clarence P. LeMire	1946	1956	1959
Arthur Johnson Mellott[4]	1942	1945
John E. Mulroney	1955	1966	1970
J. Edgar Murdock[4]	1942	1968
Arthur Nims	1979	1992	2019
Clarence V. Opper[4]	1942	1964	Died in office.
Edna G. Parker	1980	1995	1996
Carolyn Miller Parr	1985	2002
Allin H. Pierce	1955	1972	1980
William H. Quealy	1969	1980
Arnold Raum	1950	1978	1998
Stephen E. Rice	1952	1958
Irene F. Scott	1960	1982	1997
Perry Shields	1982	1994	1994
Charles R. Simpson	1965	1987
Charles P. Smith[4]	1942	1946
John M. Sternhagen[4]	1942	1946
Samuel B. Sterrett	1968	1988	1983
Stephen Swift	1983 2000	1998 2008	2010
Theodore Tannenwald Jr.	1965	1983	1999
Norman O. Tietjens	1950	1971
Russell E. Train	1957	1965
Bolon B. Turner[4]	1942	1970	1962
John A. Tyson[4]	1942	1950
Ernest H. Van Fossan[4]	1942	1961
Lawrence Whalen	1987	2002
Robert Wherry Jr.	2003	2014	2018
Meade Whitaker	1982	1989	1995
Richard C. Wilbur	1974	1986	1987
Darrell D. Wiles	1972	1984	1987
B. John Williams	1985	1990
Graydon G. Withey	1952	1972	1974
Lawrence A. Wright	1984	1996	2000

Past Special Trial Judges

• D. Irvin Couvillion (1985–)
• Carleton D. Powell (1985–2007)
• John J. Pajak (1979–)
• Norman H. Wolfe (1985–)
• Daniel J. Dinan (1991–)
• John F. Dean (1994–2014)
• Lehman C. Aarons (1975–1986)
• Robert N. Armen (1993–2019)
• Helen A. Buckley (1983–1994)
• Randolph F. Caldwell Jr. (1971–1985)
• Francis J. Cantrel (1977–1994)
• Murray H. Falk (1975–1981)
• Lee M. Galloway (1981–1993)
• Fred S. Gilbert Jr. (1977–1984)
• Stanley J. Goldberg (1985–)
• James M. Gussis (1970–1994)
• Darrell D. Hallett (1980–1983)
• Joseph N. Ingolia (1970–1977)
• Charles R. Johnston (1970–1980)
• Larry L. Nameroff (1986–)
• Edna G. Parker (1977–1980; elevated to a regular seat on the Tax Court)
• Joan Seitz Pate (1983–1994)
• Marvin F. Peterson (1979–1994; Chief Special Trial Judge, 1987–1994)
• John H. Sacks (1970–1977)
• Fred R. Tansill (1980–1986)
• Hu S. Vandervort (1984–1989)

References

1. See generally 26 U.S.C. § 7443(a) and (b).
2. I.R.C. 7447(b)(3)).
3. See 26 U.S.C. § 7443(f).
4. The Tax Court of the United States, United States Government Manual", Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information (1945).
5. "Report of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, Volume 1, p. 3 (Government Printing Office, 1926)"
6. James Russell Leech Congressional Biography].
7. "Newest Judge To Sit In Tax Court Here", The Milwaukee Journal (February 4, 1968).
8. "PRESS RELEASE" (PDF). June 11, 2019. Retrieved August 6, 2019. Chief Judge Maurice B. Foley announced today that, effective as of June 7, 2019, Senior Judge Julian I. Jacobs has fully retired and is no longer recalled for judicial service.
9. Luther Johnson Congressional Biography].
10. James Russell Leech Congressional Biography].

External links

• United States Tax Court Judges
• United States Tax Court press release archive
• Former and Current Members of the Board of Tax Appeals and Former and Current Judges of the Tax Court, archived from Villanova University