Federal Judicial Center Scraper | US Judge Profiles
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Federal Judicial Center Scraper | US Judge Profiles
Pull US federal judge biographical data from FJC: appointments, courts served, education, nominating president, and tenure dates. Filter by court or era. Useful for legal researchers, litigation strategy teams, and academics studying the federal judiciary.
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⚖️ FJC Federal Judges Biographical Scraper
🚀 Export every U.S. federal judge biography in seconds. Pull appointment history, confirmation dates, education, ABA ratings, and court assignments straight from the Federal Judicial Center. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
The FJC Federal Judges Scraper loads the Federal Judicial Center's official Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges and exposes every judge as a structured record. Every record contains the judge's name, dates, court assignments, appointing president and party, ABA rating, confirmation and commission dates, senior-status and termination details, and education.
Coverage: every U.S. federal judge in the FJC archive, from 1789 through current sitting judges, including district, appellate, circuit, and Supreme Court appointments.
Target Audience / Use Cases
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Legal researchers | Build datasets of judicial appointments and demographics |
| Journalists | Investigate the makeup of federal courts |
| Law schools | Teaching datasets on judicial history |
| Political scientists | Study confirmation patterns and party alignment |
| Court technology vendors | Augment case-analytics products with judge biographies |
| Genealogists | Trace federal judicial appointments |
📋 What the FJC Federal Judges Scraper does
- Downloads the official FJC biographical CSV in a single request
- Parses every judge record including multi-appointment history
- Filters by name, court type, appointing president's party, or still-serving status
- Returns biographical (birth, death, gender, race/ethnicity) and appointment fields
- Includes education (school, degree, year) and a free-text professional career summary
- Exports in JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML
💡 Why it matters: The FJC biographies are the canonical source for federal judges, but the raw CSV has 201 columns. This actor flattens, filters, and gives you a clean record per judge.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: appointingParty, appointingPresident, appointmentTitle, birthYear, commissionDate, confirmationDate, courtName, courtType, deathYear, firstName, gender, id, lastName, raceOrEthnicity, results, scrapedAt, sourceUrl, terminationDate, title, totalAppointments. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: The FJC source CSV contains up to 6 appointments per judge. This actor returns appointment 1 details directly and exposes
totalAppointmentsso you can pivot for multi-appointment careers.
🚀 How to use
- Create a free account w/ $5 credit
- Open this actor on Apify Console
- Set optional filters, click Start
- Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
- Schedule the run or integrate via API
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the Federal Judicial Center. Only publicly available data from fjc.gov is collected.
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