FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OPD WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1994 (202) 616-2771 TDD (202) 514-1888 RECORD NUMBER OF FEDERAL JUDGES CONFIRMED During the 103rd Congress, the Clinton Administration obtained the confirmation of 129 federal judges, the highest total ever for a President's first two years in office. Fourteeen additional nominations are pending in the Senate. As the attached statistical fact sheet discloses, the President reduced the judicial vacancy rate from the 13.5% (113 vacancies) he inherited to 6.3% (53 vacancies). The vacancy rate would have been 4.7% (39 vacancies) if action had been taken on the nominees not yet acted upon in the Senate. This is equivalent to "full employment" in the 837-member federal judiciary. In 1994 alone, 101 judges were appointed and confirmed, the highest one-year number of appointments in the last 15 years. Sixty-three percent of the Clinton judicial nominees have received the highest rating of "well qualified" from the American Bar Association. The President's nominees have included 44 women (31% of the total), 31 African-Americans (22%) and 12 Hispanics (8%). The President also appointed one Native-American, one Asian-American and two individuals with disabilities. ### 94-591