About JudicialFinder

We answer the question a litigant, attorney, journalist, or student actually has, “who is this judge, and what should I expect?”, on one fast page: who appointed them, how the Senate voted, who they succeeded in the seat, where they studied, and what they’re known for. Then every one of those facts is a link, so you can roam the judiciary as the web of relationships it really is.

A 137 Finder network site

JudicialFinder is published by 137 Finder LLC. Other 137 Finder sites: PolitiFinder (U.S. elections and the people who run in them), GravityFinder (a relational explorer of the universe), TheFiscalFinder (federal spending: the agencies, contractors, and awards behind every dollar), and MoleculeFinder (the molecules behind everything).

Because every federal judge was nominated by a president and confirmed by a Senate roll call, JudicialFinder and PolitiFinder genuinely interlock, which is why you will find contextual links between them on confirmation and appointment pages.

What we will and won’t do

We lead with neutral, sourced facts and the relationships between them. We treat ideology only as a sourced proxy (for example, the party of the appointing president), never as our own editorial verdict. At launch we do not predict case outcomes and do not host user star-ratings of judges.

Who maintains this

JudicialFinder is researched and maintained by the 137 Finder editorial team, which is responsible for every fact published here. When we get something wrong we say so: the corrections log records every user-visible fix, and the corrections policy explains how reports are verified. Corrections and questions: support@judicialfinder.com.

Everything here is informational. Verify against the primary source before relying on it, and see our methodology and data & sources for exactly where each fact comes from.