Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count 4/23/2014
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April 23, 2014
This week's Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count includes nominations, confirmations and vacancies from April 16, 2014 to April 22, 2014. Nominations, confirmations and vacancies occurring on April 23rd will be reflected in the April 30th report.
The vacancy warning level rose to yellow this week after one new vacancy and no new confirmations. The vacancy percentage rose to 10.0%. There were no new nominations this week, which allowed the total number of nominees waiting for confirmation to remain at 50. The number of vacancies of Article III judges rose to 87 out of 865. A breakdown of the vacancies on each level can be found in the table below. For a more detailed look at the vacancies on the federal courts, see our Federal Court Vacancy Warning System.
This week we are introducing the Current judicial nominee statuses section that will feature a chart showing the number of nominees in a given step of the nomination process.
Vacancies by court
| Court | # of Seats | Vacancies |
| Supreme Court | 9 | 0 percent or no vacancies |
| Appeals Courts | 179 | 8.4 percent or 15 vacancies |
| District Courts | 677 | 10.6 percent or 72 vacancies |
| All Judges | 865 | 10.0 percent or 87 vacancies |
New vacancies
District of Kansas
Kathryn Vratil
| Kathryn Vratil assumed senior status on April 22, 2014. Vratil joined the United States District Court for the District of Kansas in 1992 after being nominated by George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate. She was the first female judge of the District of Kansas and served as the chief judge of the court from 2008 until her retirement.[1] Kathryn Vratil's transition to senior status creates a vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. The vacancy warning level rose from yellow to orange. | 
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New confirmations
There were no new confirmations this week.
New nominations
There were no new nominations this week.
Weekly map
The weekly map is updated every week and posted here and on the Federal Court Vacancy Warning System analysis page.
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See also
Footnotes
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