The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C.

[a] It meets at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, DC.

[2] Four of the nine current Supreme Court justices were previously judges on the D.C.

Past justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Warren E. Burger, Fred M. Vinson, and Wiley Blount Rutledge also served on the D.C.

Circuit does not represent any state, confirmation of nominees can be procedurally and practically easier than for nominees to the Courts of Appeals for the other geographical districts, as home-state senators have historically been able to hold up confirmation through the blue slip process.

1245, clarified what was implicit in those laws: that the chief judgeship was not a mere renaming of the position but a change in its status that made it the same as the chief judge of other inferior courts.

The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.

Judges who retire into senior status remain on the bench but leave their seat vacant.