About JudicialFinder
JudicialFinder is a free, nonpartisan, deeply cross-linked map of the American judiciary: every U.S. judge, and how they’re all connected.
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 network of nonpartisan civic-data sites
JudicialFinder is a property of 137 Finder LLC, alongside PolitiFinder (U.S. politicians and elections) and GravityFinder. Because every federal judge was nominated by a president and confirmed by a Senate roll call, JudicialFinder and PolitiFinder genuinely interlock.
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.
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.