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Resignations from Judge (129 Results)
Announced Last Day Name & Position Organization Comments Reason Dec. 07
2017Dec. 07
2017Adeniyi Ademola
JudgeFederal High Court
Nigeriaalleged corrupt practices and money laundering Retired Dec. 07
2017Dec. 07
2017O. O. Tokode
JudgeFederal High Court
NigeriaRetired Dec. 08
2017Rita Makarau
JudgeZimbabwe Electoral Commission
ZimbabweResigned Dec. 11
2017Lindsay Jones
JudgeDecatur Municipal Court
USAResigned Dec. 18
2017Alex Kozinski
Judge
USAaccused of sexual misconduct / he is one of George W. Bush Supreme Court candidates Resigned Dec. 18
2017Dec. 31
2017Alfred Horowitz
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USARetired Dec. 19
2017Dec. 31
2017Christopher Clarkin
Judge
USAResigned Dec. 21
2017Dec. 30
2017Scott Layh
Judge
USAResigned Jan. 24
2018Feb. 15
2018Max Kelch
JudgeSupreme Court of Nebraska
USAResigned Feb. 02
2018Feb. 12
2018Claudia Robinson
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USAResigned Feb. 06
2018Feb. 01
2018Curtis Disque
JudgeMartin County
USAResigned Feb. 13
2018Jay B. Rosman
JudgeLee Circuit Court
USAfollowing prostitution arrest in Naples Resigned
ArrestFeb. 14
2018June 2018 Hisashi Owada
JudgeInternational Court
of Justice
Japanhe is the father of Crown Princess Masako Resigned Mar. 05
2018Jerald Bagley
JudgeMiami-Dade Circuit
USAResigned Mar. 09
2018Summer 2018 Anthony Kennedy
JudgeU.S. Supreme Court
USARetired Mar. 23
2018Henry Wilkins IV
JudgeJefferson County
USAResigned Mar. 23
2018Daryl Greenfield
JudgeTodd County
USAResigned Mar. 25
2018William C. Clifton
JudgeProvidence District
Court
USADead Mar. 30
2018Hilary Green
JudgeHarris County
USAaccused of sexting in court Resigned Apr. 05
2018Lisa Porter
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USAResigned Apr. 06
2018Thomas Colin
JudgeStamford Superior Court
USAResigned Apr. 11
2018Sarah Zabel
JudgeMiami-Dade Circuit
USAamid an investigation by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, which examines allegations of misconduct by state jurists Resigned Apr. 11
2018Paul S. Moore
JudgeNashua District Court
USAbeing investigated for reportedly forging job performance surveys Resigned Apr. 21
2018Merrilee Ehrlich
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USAafter she was recorded furiously berating asthmatic, wheelchair-bound defendant in court who DIED three days later after struggling to get her medication while in custody Resigned May. 02
2018Brian J. Back
JudgeVentura County Superior
Court
USARetired May. 15
2018May. 15
2018Roberto F. Caldas
JudgeInter-American Court
of Human Rights
USAResigned May. 17
2018Jun. 14
2018Charles E. Freeman
Chief JusticeSupreme Court of Illinois
USARetired May. 25
2018Jun. 15
2018Thomas H. Estes
JudgePittsfield
USAResigned May. 27
2018Jan. 02
2019Judy Goldman
JudgeSarasota County
USAResigned May. 30
2018Jul. 01
2018Nancy E. Rice
JudgeSupreme Court of Colorado
USARetired Jun. 06
2018Aaron Persky
JudgeSanta Clara County
USAFired Jun. 13
2018Jul. 31
2018Raus Sharif
Chief Justice
MalaysiaResigned Jun. 13
2018Jul. 31
2018Zulkefli Ahmad Makinudin
Court President
MalaysiaResigned Jun. 21
2018Joan Kline
JudgeChenango County
USAamid state investigation, agreeing never to serve again Resigned Jun. 22
2018Jasti Chelameswar
JudgeSupreme Court
IndiaResigned Jun. 22
2018Jun. 06
2018Thomas P. Brooks
JudgeChemung County
USAfollowing a state Commission on Judicial Conduct investigation into questions over his residency Resigned Jun. 27
2018Jul. 01
2018Arlene Simon Backman
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USAshe is the wife of Broward Circuit Judge Paul Backman Retired Jun. 27
2018Dec. 31
2018Paul Backman
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USAhe is the husband of Broward Circuit Judge Arlene Simon Backman Resigned Jun. 28
2018Sep. 30
2018William T. Wright
Judge9th Judicial District
USARetired Jul. 06
2018Jul. 06
2018John Patrick Contini
JudgeBroward County Circuit
Court
USAResigned Jul. 10
2018Theresa Brennan
JudgeCounty District Court
USAwho was poised to become the president of the Michigan District Judges Association, has left the organization amid an ongoing criminal investigation and pending complaint from the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission. Resigned Jul. 11
2018Jul. 27
2018Menis Ketchum
JudgeSupreme Court of West
Virginia
USARetired
IndictmentJul. 13
2018Aug. 03
2018Stephen Millan
JudgeMiami Court House
USAhe used racially disparaging language to describe a criminal defendant and members of the public. Resigned Jul. 13
2018Allen H. Loughry II
JudgeSupreme Court of West
Virginia
USASuspended
IndictmentJul. 16
2018Aug. 03
2018Stephen Thomas Millan
JudgeMiami-Dade Circuit
USAamid probe over use of racial slur Resigned Jul. 17
2018Sep. 10
2019Tim Carmody
JudgeSupreme Court of Queensland
AustraliaFormer Queensland Chief Justice Justice Tim Carmody has resigned from the bench. Resigned Jul. 18
2018Katherine Forrest
JudgeSouthern District of
New York
USAResigned Jul. 27
2018Kerry Wells
JudgeSan Diego Superior Court
USARetired Jul. 31
2018Bruce C. Mills
JudgeContra Costa County
USAfound to have committed three counts of misconduct Retired Aug. 14
2018Robin Davis
JudgeSupreme Court of West
Virginia
USAafter being impeached for committing wrongful acts, including spending $500,000 on office renovations. Retired Sep. 01
2018Aug. 31
2018Mark Riley
JudgeParker County
USARetired Sep. 07
2018Jan. 01
2019Robert L. Williams Jr.
JudgePolk County
USARetired Sep. 25
2018Sep. 30
2018Arch McGarity
JudgeHenry County Superior
Court
USARetired Sep. 25
2018Erika A. Martin
JudgeManchester Town Court
USAafter pleading guilty to grand larceny Resigned Sep. 26
2018Sep. 30
2018Leonard Tilney
JudgeTown of Lockport Court
USAafter allegations of vulgarity, posting racially offensive material Resigned Sep. 26
2018Frances Hill
JudgeMonroe County Circuit
Court
USARetired Sep. 29
2018Wendell Hollis
JudgePhoenix Immigration
Court
USAas Trump administration pushes for faster deportations Retired Sep. 29
2018John Richardson
JudgePhoenix Immigration
Court
USAas Trump administration pushes for faster deportations Retired Oct. 03
2018Oct. 15
2018Ken Todd
JudgeMonroe County Circuit
Court
USARetired Oct. 03
2018Teresa Harper
JudgeMonroe County Circuit
Court
USARetired Nov. 09
2018Jan. 31
2019William L. Waller Jr.
Chief JusticeSupreme Court of Mississippi
USAResigned Nov. 16
2018Dec. 13
2018Daryl Hecht
JudgeSupreme Court of Iowa
USAhas cancer Resigned Nov. 26
2018Earl Maus
Judge9th Judicial District
USARetired Dec. 21
2018Dec. 26
2018Geoff Robison
JudgeNew Haven City Court
USAless than a week before the City Council will likely dismantle the court Retired Dec. 21
2018Russell Clawges
JudgeMonongalia Circuit
USARetired Dec. 21
2018End of 2018 Robert Colombo Jr.
Chief JudgeWayne County Circuit
Court
USARetired Dec. 21
2018End of 2018 Virgil Smith
JudgeWayne County Circuit
Court
USARetired Dec. 21
2018End of 2018 Richard Halloran
JudgeWayne County Circuit
Court
USARetired Dec. 28
2018Everett H. Krueger
JudgeDelaware County Common
Pleas Court
USARetired Dec. 29
2018Dec. 31
2018Bruce Scolton
JudgeTown Justice in Harmony,
NY
USAresigned following an ethics complaint filed by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct Resigned Dec. 30
2018Dec. 31
2018Richard Morton
JudgeFranklin County Probate
Court
USARetired Jan. 04
2019Jan. 11
2019Bernadette L. Sabra
JudgeBedford District Court
USARetired Jan. 05
2019March
2019Todd Hernandez
Judge19th Judicial District
Court
USARetired Jan. 07
2019Thomas Sullins
JudgeWyoming District Court
USARetired Jan. 08
2019Jan. 15
2019Tom F. Young Jr.
JudgeFifth Circuit Court
USARetired Jan. 16
2019Stewart Andrew
JudgeSan Juan County District
Court
USARetired Jan. 23
2019March
2019Timothy Greeley
Judge
USARetired Jan. 25
2019Mark Martin
Chief JusticeSupreme Court of North
Carolina
USAwill become Dean at an unknown organization Resigned Jan. 28
2019Christoph Flügge
JudgeUnited Nations International
Court of Justice
NetherlandsResigned Jan. 31
2019June
2019Jeremy Weinstein
JudgeQueens Supreme Court
USARetired Feb. 04
2019Oct. 31
2019Jeffrey Parker
JudgeFauquier Circuit Court
USARetired Feb. 08
2019Rea B. Boylan
JudgeBucks County
USARetired Mar. 02
2019Michael Cantara
JudgeSpringvale District
Court
USARetired Mar. 25
2019Mar. 24
2019Robert Sweet
JudgeU.S. District Court
USAage: 96 / presided over a key lawsuit relating to financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein / Q-Post #3183 Dead Apr. 26
2019Mar. 1
2020Robert Benham
JudgeSupreme Court of Georgia
USAResigned May. 01
2019Rodolfo Delgado
JudgeHidalgo County
USApleaded not guilty to charges that he accepted bribes of more than $6,000 from an attorney who told the FBI he had been bribing Delgado for a decade Resigned
IndictmentMay. 02
2019Apr. 30
2019Stanley Griffis III
JudgeEighth Judicial Circuit
Court
USAResigned Jun. 12
2019July
2020David Lillehaug
JudgeSupreme Court of Minnesota
USAsays he has Parkinson's disease Term Ended Jun. 15
2019James Reitz
JudgePutman County Court
USAage: 57 / heart attack Dead Jun. 19
2019Travis Bryan, III
Judge272nd District Court
USATerm Ended Jun. 25
2019Jun. 29
2019James Fleetwood
Chief Judge18th Judicial District
USARetired Jun. 28
2019Jul. 19
2019Catherine Steenland
Judge39th District Court
USAsentenced in hit-and-run Retired Jun. 29
2019William Lawrence
JudgeSouthern District of
Indiana
USARetired Jul. 03
2019Jul. 10
2019Carl Thibodeaux
Judge (interim)Orange County
USAResigned Jul. 08
2019Gary Pagliaccetti
JudgeSixth Judicial District
USARetired Aug. 24
2019Aug. 24
2019Stephen S. Goss
JudgeSupreme Court of Georgia
USAage: 60 / was found dead behind his home in the 600 block of Greenwood Drive Saturday morning Dead Sep. 08
2019End of
2019Harry Jay Altman II
JudgeGeorgia Superior Courts
USAResigned Oct. 03
2019Eduardo Medina Mora
JudgeSupreme Court
Mexicoafter facing questions about a possible probe by Mexico's financial intelligence unit Resigned Oct. 05
2019December
2020Pat Joyce
JudgeCole County
USATerm Ended Oct. 19
2019William Smith
JudgeU.S. District Court
of Rhode Island
USAto be replaced by John McConnell Jr. Resigned Oct. 19
2019Jun. 01
2020Brian Coughenour
JudgeSuperior Court, Clallam
County
USAseven months before his term expires Resigned Nov. 16
2019Nov. 16
2019Mark Cady
Chief JusticeIowa Supreme Court
USAto be replaced by David Wiggins
age: 66 / wrote key decisions on gay marriage and abortion access that rankled social conservativesDead Dec. 12
2019End of
2019Cynthia Platzer
JudgeSt. Clair County District
Court
USARetired Dec. 20
2019Rosemary Collyer
JudgeForeign Intelligence
Surveillance Court
USAto be replaced by James Boasberg Resigned Dec. 28
2019Matthew Rosenbaum
JudgeState Supreme Court
USAfollowing allegations regarding Justice Rosenbaum's conduct Fired Jan. 10
2020Mar. 13
2020David Wiggins
JudgeIowa Supreme Court
USARetired Jan. 10
2020Olena Lytvynenko
JudgeBaryshivka
Ukraineshe suspended the license of Ukrainian low-cost airline SkyUp in May 2019, what was overturned by another court four months later Fired Jan. 13
2020Apr. 03
2020Robert J. Tornatta
JudgeVanderburgh County
USARetired Jan. 23
2020Michael Bordallo
JudgeSuperior Court of Guam
USAahead of Torre trial Resigned Jan. 23
2020Jim Roberts
JudgeFirst District Circuit
Court
USAResigned Feb. 01
2020Jun. 30
2020James Hankinson
JudgeLeon County
USAResigned Feb. 03
2020Donald G. Alexander
JudgeMaine Supreme Judicial
Court
USAhe once brought roosters into the courtroom in a case involving Janet Mills Resigned Feb. 10
2020Feb. 29
2020Robert Thomas
JudgeIllinois Supreme Court
USARetired Feb. 13
2020Jack Weinstein
JudgeU.S. District Court
for the Eastern District
of New York
USARetired Feb. 18
2020Apr. 01
2020Carlos Murguia
JudgeKansas City
USAwas publicly reprimanded for sexually harassing female employees and having an extramarital affair with an offender Resigned Feb. 27
2020Jessie Leblanc
Judge23rd Judicial District
Court
USAfollowing national outcry over her use of racial slurs Resigned Mar. 02
2020Kevin Korsmo
Judge
USARetired Mar. 03
2020Jul. 06
2020Dondi Osborne
JudgeLa Plata County
USAResigned Mar. 03
2020Charles Honeyman
JudgeImmigration Court Philadelphia
USAwill move to Solow, Isbell, & Palladino Resigned Mar. 16
2020Douglas Gardner
Judge
USAafter driving 8 years with no license, losing nearly $1,300 in fines Resigned Mar. 17
2020Chuck Goedert
Judge43rd District Court
USAResigned Apr. 30
2020Malgorzata Gersdorf
PresidentSupreme Court
PolandOusted in July 2018 after controversial new law that came into effect at midnight Tuesday, forcing her and up to 26 colleagues from the bench. The law reduces the retirement age from 70 to 65 yrs. 27 judges have been forced to leave. She kept the position. Term Ended May. 01
2020John Throesch
JudgeRandolph County District
USAafter an investigation by the Arkansas Judicial Discipline & Disability Commission found that he violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct involving criminal cases Resigned Jun. 25
2020Jul. 31
2020Kurtis Fouts
JudgeCarroll County Superior
Court
USAafter video of him with escort is posted online Resigned Aug. 19
2020Aug. 31
2020Laurie Zelon
Associate JusticeSecond Appellate District
CanadaRetired Sep. 15
2020Hugh Starnes
JudgeLee County
USAin support of racial injustice movement Resigned Sep. 18
2020James Spigelman
JudgeHong Kong Court of Final
Appeal
ChinaResigned Sep. 25
2020Oct. 13
2020Celso de Mello
JudgeSupreme Court
BrazilRetired Feb. 06
2021Emmet Sullivan
Judge
USAoversaw the contentious politically-charged case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn Retired
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