List of Judges of the United States Tax Court

The United States Tax Court is composed of 19 members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.[1] Reappointment, when requested by a Tax Court judge[2] is generally pro forma regardless of the political party of the appointing President and the political party of the re-appointing (sitting) President. By statute, Congress has granted to the President the power to remove the judges of the U.S. Tax Court "for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office...." [3]

In addition, the Chief Judge may appoint a number of Special Trial Judges, who serve a function comparable to magistrate judges in the United States district courts.

The 19-member court currently has three vacancies.


Sitting judges
Appointed by the President of the United States.

Senior judges
Appointed by the President of the United States; terms of senior service are in italics.

Special Trial Judges
Appointed by the Chief Judge of the Tax Court.

Former judges

JudgeBegan active
service
Ended active
service
Ended senior
service
William W. Arnold[4]19351950
C. Rogers Arundell[4]19251969
Renato Beghe199920032012
Eugene Black[4]19291966
Charles Clapp19831998
Herbert Chabot 1978 2001
Howard A. Dawson, Jr. 1962 1985 2016
Richard L. Disney[4]1951
William Miller Drennen19581972
William M. Fay19612000
Bruce M. Forrester19571978
Harry Haines 2003 2008 2016
Marion Janet Harron[4]19361970
Samuel B. Hill[4]19361953
Leo H. Irwin[5]1968
James S.Y. Ivins[6]1924
Luther Alexander Johnson[7]19461956
John W. Kern, Jr.[4]193719611971
Jules G. Körner III19811997
Diane Kroupa20032014
David Laro199220072018
James Russell Leech[4][8]19321952
Arthur Johnson Mellott[4]19351945
J. Edgar Murdock[4]19261968
Arthur L. Nims, III 1979 1992
Clarence V. Opper[4]19381965
Carolyn Miller Parr 1985 2002
Percy W. Phillips[6]1924
William H. Quealy19691980
Arnold Raum195019781998
Stephen E. Rice19521958
Perry Shields19821994
Charles R. Simpson19651987
Charles P. Smith[4]1946
John M. Sternhagen[4]19241945
Stephen Swift1983
2000
1998
2008
2010
Theodore Tannenwald, Jr.196519831999
Bolon B. Turner[4]1968
John A. Tyson[4]1950
Ernest H. Van Fossan[4]19261961
Robert Wherry Jr.200320142018
Darrell D. Wiles19721987
B. John Williams 1985 1990
Lawrence A. Wright19841996

Special Trial Judges

References

  1. See generally 26 U.S.C. § 7443(a) and (b).
  2. I.R.C. 7447(b)(3)).
  3. See 26 U.S.C. § 7443(f).
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 The Tax Court of the United States, United States Government Manual", Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information (1945).
  5. "Newest Judge To Sit In Tax Court Here", The Milwaukee Journal (February 4, 1968).
  6. 1 2 "Report of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, Volume 1, p. 3 (Government Printing Office, 1926)"
  7. Luther Johnson Congressional Biography].
  8. James Russell Leech Congressional Biography].
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