FEDERAL JUDICIAL COMPENSATION

 

Administrative Office of U.S. Courts' table of judicial compensation
since 1968

February 2001 --
"Federal Judicial Pay Erosion: 
A Report on the Need for Reform"
ABA/Federal Bar Association

CJA's May 13, 2008 letter to Congress & subsequent correspondence 

 

c-span -- March 17, 2007 budget appropriations -- Kennedy, Thomas

 

Senate Bill S.1638
"Federal Judicial Salary Restoration Act"
all actions

House Bill H.3753
"To Increase the Pay of Federal Judges and For Other Purposes"
all actions

 

 

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February 14, 2007
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing,
 "Judicial Security and Independence"

April 19, 2007
House Judiciary Committee Hearing,
"Federal Judicial Compensation", April 19, 2007
 

2003
"Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged Unworthy of a Pay Raise:
An Examination of the Federal Judicial Salary 'Crisis'",
Marquette Law Review  (Michael J. Frank)

2007
"Judicial Pay: A Chasm Far Worse than Realized, and Worsening"
Roy A. Schotland, 82 Ind. L.J. 1273-1283

   January 4, 2008
"A raise that's hard to justify"
Los Angeles Times  (Professor Scott Baker)

January 10, 2008
"Judicial Salary: Current Issues and Options for Congress",
Congressional Research Report for Congress, 
Kevin M. Scott, Analyst on the Federal Judiciary, Government & Finance Division

2008
"Salary Erosion and Federal Judicial Resignation"
Scott Duke Kominers

2008
"Should We Pay Federal Circuit Judges More?"
Boston University Law Review

January 21, 2009
Empirical Legal Studies blog: 
January 21, 2009  "Judicial Pay Redux", David Stras

January 20, 2009
"How Much Should Judges Make",
New York Times, Adam Liptak, January 20, 2009

     

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