The frequency table reveals how many presidential appointees each president made to the Federal Appellate Court bench. This calculated on a per year basis shows that their has been a steady increase, with the exceptions of Ford who showed less and Carter who showed more, in the number of appointees to Federal Appellate Court bench during the last 10 presidencies. Since Federal Court judges are appointed for life terms, under conditions of "good behavior," I attribute this increase in the number of Federal Appellate Court judges to larger caseloads with more issues to decide.

One of the exceptions noted earlier, Ford, who served only 2 1/2 years, appointed an average of 4.8 Appellate Court judges a year. The other exception, Carter who served 4 years and made 56 appointments, had the greatest impact on the Federal Appellate Court system, averaging 14 appointees a year.

A Perspective Look at Bush and Clinton's Federal Appellate Court Appointees

The data illustrates that Bush's Federal judge appointees were within party lines 91% of the time. In 37 of his awarded Federal judgeships, 34 were Republican, 2 were Democrat,

Clinton's appointments to Federal Appellate Court judgeships show nearly equal distributions between the Protestant and Roman Catholic faiths with 35% and 33%

The analysis shows that Bush appointed white Federal Appellate Court judges 90% of the time. In Bush's 4 years of office, he appointed 4 judges from a minority, 2 African-American judges, and 2 Hispanic judges, comprising the other 10%.

Clinton's record in regard to female appointees is more balanced, but still skewed. One third of his appointees as Federal Court of Appeals judges in his first 6 years have been a woman.

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