US Federal & State Judges Database API

A structured database of US federal and state judges — appointments, ratings and biography.

Factual public records — assembled for research and monitoring.

📊 Sample Output

dob	id	meta	name	positions	url
1931-01-01	65	{'timestamp': '2023-10-10T19:23:06.167240Z', 'date_created': None, 's…	Robert Peter Aguilar	[{'appointer': 'Carter, Jimmy', 'court': 'N.D. California', 'court_ci…	https://www.courtlistener.com/person/65/robert-peter-aguilar/
	10313	{'timestamp': '2023-10-10T19:26:20.549461Z', 'date_created': None, 's…	Robert P. Ahern	[{'appointer': None, 'court': 'California Superior Court, Santa Clara…	https://www.courtlistener.com/person/10313/robert-p-ahern/
1910-05-10	67	{'timestamp': '2023-10-10T19:23:06.227318Z', 'date_created': None, 's…	Robert Andrew Ainsworth Jr.	[{'appointer': 'Kennedy, John F.', 'court': 'E.D. Louisiana', 'court_…	https://www.courtlistener.com/person/67/robert-andrew-ainsworth-jr/
1928-01-01	4370	{'timestamp': '2023-10-10T19:24:53.415173Z', 'date_created': None, 's…	Robert G. Allbee	[{'appointer': None, 'court': 'Supreme Court of Iowa', 'court_citatio…	https://www.courtlistener.com/person/4370/robert-g-allbee/
	10322	{'timestamp': '2023-10-10T19:26:20.567159Z', 'date_created': None, 's…	Robert T. Altman	[{'appointer': 'Brown, Edmund Gerald', 'court': 'California Superior…	https://www.courtlistener.com/person/10322/robert-t-altman/
1956-11-04	13869	{'timestamp': '2023-10-10T19:27:02.058601Z', 'date_created': None, 's…	Robert O. Amador	[{'appointer': None, 'court': 'California Superior Court, San Diego C…	https://www.courtlistener.com/person/13869/robert-o-amador/

Real rows from run 0b2fuEhmPBWUmPm6l on build 0.0.10 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

⚙️ Sample inputs

This is the Store example input — the same input Apify's automated check runs — so it is proven to return rows on the current build. Paste it into the input form, or send it through the API, CLI or a schedule:

{
  "searchType": "p",
  "query": "Roberts"
}

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
searchType	string	"p"	p=judges, oa=oral arguments, o=opinions, r=recap dockets.
query	string	"Roberts"	Full-text search.
court	string		Court ID filter (e.g. scotus, cafc).
maxResults	integer	200	Max records.
courtListenerToken	string		Optional free token to raise rate limits.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 0b2fuEhmPBWUmPm6l (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "aba_rating": [
    "Qualified"
  ],
  "alias": [],
  "alias_ids": [],
  "date_granularity_dob": "%Y",
  "date_granularity_dod": "",
  "dob": "1931-01-01",
  "dob_city": "Madera",
  "dob_state": "California",
  "dob_state_id": "CA",
  "dod": null,
  "fjc_id": "15",
  "gender": "Male",
  "id": 65,
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2023-10-10T19:23:06.167240Z",
    "date_created": null,
    "score": {
      "bm25": null
    }
  },
  "name": "Robert Peter Aguilar",
  "political_affiliation": [
    "Democratic"
  ],
  "political_affiliation_id": [
    "d"
  ],
  "positions": [
    {
      "appointer": "Carter, Jimmy",
      "court": "N.D. California",
      "court_citation_string": "N.D. Cal.",
      "court_exact": "cand",
      "court_full_name": "District Court, N.D. California",
      "date_confirmation": "1980-06-18",
      "date_elected": null,
      "date_granularity_start": "%Y-%m-%d",
      "date_granularity_termination": "%Y-%m-%d",
      "date_hearing": null,
      "date_judicial_committee_action": "1980-06-17",
      "date_nominated": "1980-04-03",
      "date_recess_appointment": null,
      "date_referred_to_judicial_committee": "1980-04-15",
      "date_retirement": "1996-04-15",
      "date_start": "1980-06-18",
      "date_termination": "1996-06-24",
      "job_title": "",
      "judicial_committee_action": "",
      "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2024-06-20T16:32:55.834929Z",
        "date_created": "2016-04-20T15:15:55.673834Z"
      },
      "nomination_process": "",
      "organization_name": null,
      "position_type": "Judge",
      "predecessor": null,
      "selection_method": "Appointment (President)",
      "selection_method_id": "a_pres",
      "supervisor": null,
      "termination_reason": "Voluntary Retirement"
    },
    {
      "appointer": null,
      "court": null,
      "court_citation_string": null,
      "court_exact": null,
      "court_full_name": null,
      "date_confirmation": null,
      "date_elected": null,
      "date_granularity_start": "%Y",
      "date_granularity_termination": "%Y",
      "date_hearing": null,
      "date_judicial_committee_action": null,
      "date_nominated": null,
      "date_recess_appointment": null,
      "date_referred_to_judicial_committee": null,
      "date_retirement": null,
      "date_start": "1960-01-01",
      "date_termination": "1979-01-01",
      "job_title": "Private practice",
      "judicial_committee_action": "",
      "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2024-06-20T16:32:55.914935Z",
        "date_created": "2016-04-20T15:15:55.754978Z"
      },
      "nomination_process": "",
      "organization_name": "",
      "position_type": null,
      "predecessor": null,
      "selection_method": "",
      "selection_method_id": "",
      "supervisor": null,
      "termination_reason": ""
    },
    {
      "appointer": null,
      "court": null,
      "court_citation_string": null,
      "court_exact": null,
      "court_full_name": null,
      "date_confirmation": null,
      "date_elected": null,
      "date_granularity_start": "%Y",
      "date_granularity_termination": "%Y",
      "date_hearing": null,
      "date_judicial_committee_action": null,
      "date_nominated": null,
      "date_recess_appointment": null,
      "date_referred_to_judicial_committee": null,
      "date_retirement": null,
      "date_start": "1979-01-01",
      "date_termination": "1980-01-01",
      "job_title": "Judge",
      "judicial_committee_action": "",
      "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2024-06-20T16:32:56.064003Z",
        "date_created": "2016-04-20T15:15:55.764313Z"
      },
      "nomination_process": "",
      "organization_name": "Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara",
      "position_type": null,
      "predecessor": null,
      "selection_method": "",
      "selection_method_id": "",
      "supervisor": null,
      "termination_reason": ""
    }
  ],
  "races": [
    "Hispanic/Latino"
  ],
  "religion": "",
  "school": [],
  "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/person/65/robert-peter-aguilar/"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.01	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Federal judge record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.05	Charged once per federal judge record returned (name, aba_rating, dob, appointment and biographical fields).

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

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📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per judge (full output has 22 fields):

• aba_rating — Aba rating
• alias — Alias
• alias_ids — Alias ids
• date_granularity_dob — Date granularity dob
• date_granularity_dod — Date granularity dod
• dob — Dob
• dob_city — Dob city
• dob_state — Dob state
• dob_state_id — Dob state id
• dod — Dod

Pricing: $0.05 per judge (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 per $1. Actor start fee $0.01 per run. Live prices are in the Pricing table below.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull official records on demand.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

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This actor is currently private — treated and ready for review.

Public official records and enforcement data, assembled for research and monitoring.