Completion of a Multi-User Data Base on the Attributes of U.S. Courts of Appeals Judges, 1801--2000

该项目将完成一个关于美国上诉法院法官的个人、社会、经济、职业和政治属性的广泛数据库。在先前的NSF奖项SBR-9311999下，收集了1801年至1992年期间委托的所有法官的信息。这个项目现在将增加由比尔·克林顿任命的法官。该数据库将包括传统的社会背景变量，如任命总统、宗教信仰、政党归属、教育程度和以前的经验，以及独特的项目，如以前职业经历的时间顺序、离开法官职位的时间和原因、职位历史、美国律师协会评级和净资产。该项目还将把上诉法院数据库与美国地区法院法官的并行数据库合并。合并后的数据将包含1789年至2000年间任职的所有下级联邦法院法官的最广泛信息。

This project will complete an extensive database on the personal, social, economic, career, and political attributes of judges who served on the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Under a prior NSF award, SBR-9311999, information was assembled for all judges who were commissioned from 1801 through 1992. This project will now add the judges appointed by Bill Clinton. The database will include conventional social background variables, such as appointing president, religion, political party affiliation, education, and prior experience, along with unique items such as the temporal sequence of prior career experiences, the timing of and reason for leaving the bench, position histories, rating by the American Bar Association, and net worth. This project will also merge the appellate court database with a parallel database on U.S. district court judges. The merged data will contain the widest range of information on all lower federal court judges to serve from 1789 to 2000.