judges
55 notable judges on file — 11 still here, 44 not.
still with us
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Mitch McConnell
aliveAmerican politician and lawyer (born 1942)
born 1942
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Sushila Karki
aliveinterim prime minister of Nepal since 2025
born 1952

Clarence Thomas
aliveAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991
born 1948

Samuel Alito
aliveAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 2006
born 1950

Merrick Garland
alive86th United States Attorney General
born 1952
Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i
aliveChief Justice of the Islamic Republic of Iran and former Co-Interim Supreme Leader of Iran in 2026
born 1956
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Karim Ahmad Khan
aliveBritish lawyer, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
born 1970

Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
aliveChief Justice of India
born 1959

Jeanine Pirro
aliveUnited States Attorney for the District of Columbia since 2025
born 1951

James Boasberg
aliveAmerican judge
born 1963

Fani Willis
aliveAmerican attorney and District Attorney of Fulton County (born 1971)
born 1971
gone (30 of 44)
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Harry S. Truman
deadpresident of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician
1884 – 1972
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
deadAmerican lawyer and jurist
1933 – 2020

Brigitte Bierlein
deadAustrian jurist and politician, former federal chancellor of Austria and president of the Austrian constitutional court
1949 – 2024

Sandra Day O'Connor
deadAmerican lawyer and jurist
1930 – 2023
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Thomas Cromwell
deadEnglish statesman and politician
1485 – 1540
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Strom Thurmond
deadAmerican politician
1902 – 2003

Frank Caprio
deadAmerican lawyer and politician
1936 – 2025

David Souter
deadAmerican lawyer and jurist
1939 – 2025
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Edwin M. Stanton
deadAmerican lawyer and politician
1814 – 1869

Sheila Jackson Lee
deadAmerican lawyer and politician
1950 – 2024

Nabil Elaraby
deadEgyptian politician and judge
1935 – 2024

William H. Webster
deadAmerican attorney and jurist, former Chairperson of the Homeland Security Advisory Council
1924 – 2025

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev
dead1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Russia
1943 – 2024

Stephen M. Schwebel
deadAmerican judge
1929 – 2026

Boris Ebzeyev
deadRussian politician
1950 – 2026

Shigeru Oda
deadJapanese jurist
1924 – 2025

Yvonne Mokgoro
deadSouth African judge
1950 – 2024

C. Sankaran Nair
deadIndian politician
1857 – 1934

Gerry Spence
deadAmerican lawyer
1929 – 2025
Julie Manning
deadTanzanian lawyer, judge and politician
1939 – 2026

James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern
deadBritish politician and life peer
1927 – 2026
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Edna Arbel
deadIsraeli judge
1944 – 2026

Murray Sinclair
deadCanadian lawyer and politician
1951 – 2024
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Kenneth Keith
deadNew Zealand jurist and legal scholar
1937 – 2026

Flavia Lattanzi
deadItalian jurist, law professor and judge
1940 – 2026
Monique Pelletier
deadFrench barrister and politician
1926 – 2025
Leonora van den Heever
deadSouth African judge
1926 – 2025
Ren Jianxin
deadChinese judge and politician
1925 – 2024

Abdul Salam Azimi
deadAfghan jurist
1936 – 2026

Gerhard Hager
deadAustrian politician
1942 – 2025