The Federal Vacancy Count 10/1/2014

Key: (Numbers indicate % of seats vacant.) 0% 0%-10% 10%-25% 25%-40% More than 40%

October 1, 2014

By Courtney Collins

This week's Federal Vacancy Count includes nominations, confirmations and vacancies from September 24, 2014, to September 30, 2014. Nominations, confirmations and vacancies occurring on October 1st will be reflected in the October 8th report.

This week the United States Senate started their election recess, which will halt the movement of nominees through the process.

The vacancy warning level remained at blue this week after no new vacancies, no new nominations and no new confirmations. The vacancy percentage remained at 6.8% and the total number of nominees waiting for confirmation remained at 34. The number of vacancies of Article III judges remained at 60 out of 874. 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.

Vacancies by court

Court	# of Seats	Vacancies
Supreme Court	9	0% or no vacancies
Appeals Courts	179	3.9% or 7 vacancies
District Courts	677	7.4% or 50 vacancies
International Trade	9	33.3% or 3 vacancy
All Judges	874	6.8% or 60 vacancies

New vacancies

There were no new vacancies this week.

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.

See also

• United States federal courts

Footnotes