U.s. Senate Committee On The Judiciary

The committee, along with the Finance and Foreign Relations committees, is among the oldest in the Senate, having been initially created in 1816 .

MEMBERS, 109TH CONGRESS

The Committee is chaired by Republican Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania . The Ranking Minority Member is Democrat Patrick Leahy from Vermont .

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SUBCOMMITTEES

Subcommittee On Administrative Oversight And The Courts

---Chairman: Jeff Sessions , R- Alabama

---Ranking Member: Chuck Schumer , D- New York

Subcommittee On Antitrust, Competition Policy And Consumer Rights

---Chairman: Mike DeWine , R- Ohio

---Ranking Member: Herbert Kohl , D- Wisconsin

Subcommittee On The Constitution, Civil Rights And Property Rights

---Chairman: Sam Brownback , R- Kansas

---Ranking Member: Russ Feingold , D- Wisconsin

Subcommittee On Corrections And Rehabilitation

---Chairman: Tom Coburn , R- Oklahoma

---Ranking Member: Richard Durbin , D- Illinois

Subcommittee On Crime And Drugs

---Chairman: Lindsey Graham , R- South Carolina

---Ranking Member: Joe Biden , D- Delaware

Subcommittee On Immigration, Border Security And Citizenship

---Chairman: John Cornyn , R- Texas

---Ranking Member: Ted Kennedy , D- Massachusetts

Subcommittee On Intellectual Property

---Chairman: Orrin Hatch , R- Utah

---Ranking Member: Pat Leahy , D- Vermont

Subcommittee On Terrorism, Technology And Homeland Security

---Chairman: Jon Kyl , R- Arizona

---Ranking Member: Dianne Feinstein , D- California

CHAIRMEN SINCE 1816

Dudley Chase (R-VT) 1816-1817

John J. Crittenden (R-KY) 1817-1818

James Burrill, Jr. (F-RI) 1818-1819

William Smith (R-SC) 1819-1823

Martin Van Buren (R/D-NY) 1823-1828

John Macpherson Berrien (D-GA) 1828-1829

John Rowan (D-KY) 1829-1831

William L. Marcy (D-NY) 1831-1832

William Wilkins (D-PA) 1832-1833

John M. Clayton (W-DE) 1833-1836

Felix Grundy (D-TN) 1836-1838

Garret D. Wall (D-NJ) 1838-1841

John Macpherson Berrien (W-GA) 1841-1845

Chester Ashley (D-AR) 1845-1847

Andrew P. Butler (D-SC) 1847-1857

James Bayard, Jr. (D-DE) 1857-1861

Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) 1861-1872

George F. Edmunds (R-VT) 1872-1879

Allen G. Thurman (D-OH) 1879-1881

George F. Edmunds (R-VT) 1881-1891

George F. Hoar (R-MA) 1891-1893

James Pugh (D-AL) 1893-1895

George F. Hoar (R-MA) 1895-1904

Orville Platt (R-CT) 1904-1905

Clarence D. Clark (R-WY) 1905-1912

Charles A. Culberson (D-TX) 1912-1919

Knute Nelson (R-MN) 1919-1923

Frank B. Brandegee (R-CT) 1923-1924

Albert B. Cummins (R-IA) 1924-1926

George W. Norris (R-NE) 1926-1933

Henry F. Ashurst (D-AZ) 1933-1941

Frederick Van Nuys (D-IN) 1941-1945

Pat McCarran (D-NV) 1945-1947

Alexander Wiley (R-WI) 1947-1949

Pat McCarran (D-NV) 1949-1953

William Langer (R-ND) 1953-1955

Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV) 1955-1956

James O. Eastland (D-MS) 1956-1978

Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) 1978-1981

Strom Thurmond (R-SC) 1981-1987

Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) 1987-1995

Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) 1995-2001

Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) 2001

Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) 2001

Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) 2001-2003

Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) 2003-2005

Arlen Specter (R-PA) 2005-present

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