An Article I federal court / Established 1924

United States Tax Court

Washington, D.C. · A specialized federal court.

The United States Tax Court is an Article I federal court that hears disputes over federal income, estate, and gift taxes before the tax is paid. Its presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed judges serve renewable 15-year terms; the court also has special trial judges appointed by its chief judge. Appeals go to the regional U.S. court of appeals. This page lists every judge to serve on the court, current and former.

128

Judges in history

Currently serving

Article I

Court type

Current judges

Judge	Since
Mary Ann Cohen	1982
Peter Panuthos	1983
Joel Gerber	1984
Joel Gerber	1984
D. Irvin Couvillion	1985
Stanley J. Goldberg	1985
Norman H. Wolfe	1985
Larry L. Nameroff	1986
Thomas B. Wells	1986
Robert Ruwe	1987
John O. Colvin	1988
James Halpern	1990
Daniel J. Dinan	1991
Lewis R. Carluzzo	1994
Maurice B. Foley · Chief	1995
Juan F. Vasquez	1995
Joseph H. Gale	1996
L. Paige Marvel	1998
Michael B. Thornton	1998
Joseph Robert Goeke	2003
Joseph Robert Goeke	2003
Mark V. Holmes	2003
David Gustafson	2008
Richard T. Morrison	2008
Elizabeth Crewson Paris	2008
Daniel A. Guy jr	2012
Kathleen Kerrigan	2012
Ronald Lee Buch	2013
Albert G. Lauber	2013
Albert G. Lauber	2013
Joseph W. Nega	2013
Tamara W. Ashford	2014
Cary Douglas Pugh	2014
John O. Colvin	2016
Diana Leyden	2016
Elizabeth Ann Copeland	2018
Patrick J. Urda	2018
Courtney Dunbar Jones	2019
Emin Toro	2019
Travis A. Greaves	2020
Christian N. Weiler	2020

Former judges

Judge	Years
Harry Haines	2003–2016
Diane Kroupa	2003–2014
Robert Wherry jr	2003–2018
Renato Beghe	1999–2012
John F. Dean	1994–2014
Robert N. Armen	1993–2019
Carolyn Chiechi	1992–2007
David Laro	1992–2018
Lawrence Whalen	1987–2002
Carolyn Miller Parr	1985–2002
Carleton D. Powell	1985–2007
B. John Williams	1985–1990
Julian Jacobs	1984–2019
Hu S. Vandervort	1984–1989
Lawrence A. Wright	1984–2000
Helen A. Buckley	1983–1994
Charles Clapp	1983–1998
Joan Seitz Pate	1983–1994
Stephen Swift	1983–2010
Lapsley W. Hamblen jr	1982–1996
Perry Shields	1982–1994
Meade Whitaker	1982–1995
Lee M. Galloway	1981–1993
Jules G. Körner	1981–1997
Sheldon V. Ekman	1980–1982
Darrell D. Hallett	1980–1983
Fred R. Tansill	1980–1986
Arthur Nims	1979–1992
John J. Pajak	1979–1987
Marvin F. Peterson	1979–1994
Herbert Chabot	1978–2001
Francis J. Cantrel	1977–1994
Fred S. Gilbert jr	1977–1984
Edna G. Parker	1977–1996
Lehman C. Aarons	1975–1986
Murray H. Falk	1975–1981
Richard C. Wilbur	1974–1987
Cynthia H. Hall	1972–1981
Darrell D. Wiles	1972–1987
Randolph F. Caldwell jr	1971–1985
William A. Goffe	1971–1992
James M. Gussis	1970–1994
Joseph N. Ingolia	1970–1977
Charles R. Johnston	1970–1980
John H. Sacks	1970–1977
William H. Quealy	1969–1980
Leo H. Irwin	1968–1983
Samuel B. Sterrett	1968–1988
C. Moxley Featherston	1967–1991
Charles R. Simpson	1965–1987
Theodore Tannenwald jr	1965–1999
Howard Dawson	1962–2016
Austin Hoyt	1962–1976
William M. Fay	1961–2000
Irene F. Scott	1960–1997
William Miller Drennen	1958–1972
Bruce M. Forrester	1957–1984
Russell E. Train	1957–1965
Craig S. Atkins	1955–1972
John E. Mulroney	1955–1970
Allin H. Pierce	1955–1968
Arnold R. Baar	1954–1954
Morton P. Fisher	1954–1965
J. Gregory Bruce	1952–1967
Stephen E. Rice	1952–1958
Graydon G. Withey	1952–1974
Arnold Raum	1950–1998
Norman O. Tietjens	1950–1971
Byron B. Harlan	1946–1949
Luther Alexander Johnson	1946–1956
Clarence P. LeMire	1946–1959
William W. Arnold	1942–1950
C. Rogers Arundell	1942–1969
Eugene Black	1942–1966
Richard L. Disney	1942–1951
Marion Janet Harron	1942–1970
Samuel B. Hill	1942–1953
John W. Kern jr	1942–1971
James Russell Leech	1942–1952
Arthur Johnson Mellott	1942–1945
J. Edgar Murdock	1942–1968
Clarence V. Opper	1942–1965
Charles P. Smith	1942–1946
John M. Sternhagen	1942–1945
Bolon B. Turner	1942–1968
John A. Tyson	1942–1950
Ernest H. Van Fossan	1942–1961

How a judge gets here. Judges of United States Tax Court are nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to renewable 15-year terms; the court’s special trial judges are appointed by its chief judge. Open any judge to see when they were appointed and the court they serve.

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