Knowing the judge is not trivia. Assignment determines the courtroom, the call schedule, the local practice, and who decides every motion you file.
The Steps
- 1Check the public portal case detail
The assigned judge and courtroom generally appear on the case detail page alongside the next setting.
- 2Read your notice of court date
A court date notice names the courtroom and often the judge and the appearance format, including whether it is a Zoom setting.
- 3Confirm the courtroom-to-judge mapping
Courtrooms are assigned to judges by administrative order and change. Confirm through the circuit’s published assignments rather than assuming.
- 4Look up the judge’s background
Use this site’s <a href="/court-directory">court directory</a> for the verified Nineteenth Circuit roster with roles, divisions, and published biographies.
- 5Check whether the judge appears in the record
If a judge is documented in this archive, their dossier is at /people and linked from the directory.
What the Record Shows
- The court directory on this site is a neutral civic reference covering the sitting bench. It is deliberately separate in tone from the case dossiers, which document specific record conduct.
- If your matter is set before a judge named in a pending motion to substitute, that is a documented procedural conflict — see the July 23 stamps.