Talk:Senior status

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[edit] Nomenclature for judges

Per Wikipedia policy, I'm recording here an assertion made by anonymous user 12.144.5.2:

(Until 1958,the judges who retired under this act were called "retired judges".At that time,the title of "senior judge",which until 1948 had been used for those thereafter titled "chief judge" of circuit courts,was substituted).

I removed this section until this assertion can be confirmed from some independent source.

— DLJessup (talk) 21:58, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Take a look at the judges' rosters in the West's Federal Reporter.The "Chief Judge" designation for the senior judges of Circuit Courts appeared in 1948.In 1958,the use of "Senior Judge" for judges on what's now called "Senior Status" began with a special note of the statute authorizing this repeated in every volume for some time.Previously they had been listed as "Retired Judges".

Stanley F. Reed,in retirement from the Supreme Court,was frequently assigned to sit in the former Court of Claims (which was not a circuit court) and never to a Circuit Court.--Louis Epstein/le@put.com/12.144.5.2 03:17, 12 September 2005 (UTC)