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John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey
John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey (1929-2017), Scottish advocate, Solicitor General for Scotland 1974-79, Senator of the College of Justice 1984-2004, crossbench life peer, Reith Lecturer and chair of the 2011 UK Supreme Court review.
John McLean
John McLean (1785–1861) was an American jurist who served nearly 32 years as a US Supreme Court justice, appointed by Andrew Jackson, and dissented in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
John Morgan (lawyer)
John Morgan, American personal injury lawyer (born in Kentucky), founder of Morgan & Morgan in Orlando, Florida in 1988, the largest U.S. personal injury firm; billionaire, Florida ballot-measure funder.
John Morris (FBI)
John Morris (FBI) was a Boston FBI supervisory special agent, head of the organized crime squad, who admitted taking $7,000 in bribes from Whitey Bulger and testified under immunity against John Connolly and Bulger.
John N. Mitchell
John N. Mitchell (1913–1988), Nixon's 1968 campaign manager and 67th U.S. Attorney General (1969–1972), later CRP head; convicted in the Watergate cover-up in 1975 and served 19 months, the highest-ranking U.S. official imprisoned.
John P. Bailey
John Preston Bailey, born 1951 in Wheeling, West Virginia, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, appointed by George W. Bush in 2007.
John P. Cronan
John P. Cronan, also known as John Peter Cronan, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2020.
John P. Gilbert
John P. Gilbert, also known as John Phil Gilbert, is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois since 2014.
John Palmer (criminal)
John 'Goldfinger' Palmer (c. 1950–2015), English criminal acquitted of handling Brink's-Mat gold in 1987, convicted in 2001 of the largest recorded timeshare fraud (16,000 victims), and shot dead unsolved at his Essex home in June 2015.
John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), Supreme Court associate justice 1975–2010, appointed by Ford after Seventh Circuit service; wrote Chevron and Massachusetts v. EPA, 628 dissents, later urged repealing the Second Amendment.
John Pickering (judge)
John Pickering, New Hampshire federal district judge, first federal official impeached and removed (1803-1804) on charges of intoxication, profanity, and mishandling a trial, in largely party-line votes.
John Proctor (Salem witch trials)
John Proctor (Salem witch trials): Salem-area farmer and tavern keeper, husband of Elizabeth Proctor, hanged for witchcraft August 19, 1692; subject of an Ipswich petition and Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
John Punch (slave)
John Punch (also Bunch), African servant in Virginia sentenced by the General Court in 1640 to lifelong servitude after running away with two white indentured servants; first documented slave-for-life in the English colonies.
John R. Adams
John R. Adams (born 1955) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
John R. Blakey
John R. Blakey, also known as John Robert Blakey, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Illinois since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
John R. Padova
John R. Padova (born 1935) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
John R. Tunheim
John R. Tunheim (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge in Minnesota, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995.
John Roberts
John Roberts (John Glover Roberts Jr., born 1955, Buffalo, NY) is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, confirmed 78-22 on September 29, 2005, succeeding Rehnquist; former D.C. Circuit judge, Harvard-trained, known for the umpire metaphor and the 2012 ACA ruling.
John Roll
John Roll (John McCarthy Roll) was a US district judge in Arizona appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991, killed in the 2011 Tucson mass shooting while chief judge.
John Roselli
John (Handsome Johnny) Roselli, born Filippo Sacco (1905-1976), was a Chicago Outfit boss on the West Coast, a Hollywood fixer, and the CIA's main underworld contact in plots to assassinate Fidel Castro; he was murdered in 1976.
John Rutledge
John Rutledge (1739-1800), South Carolina revolutionary governor, Constitution signer, and chairman of the Committee of Detail; Associate Justice 1790-1791 and recess-appointed second Chief Justice in 1795, rejected by the Senate after his Jay Treaty speech.
John Rutledge Supreme Court nominations
John Rutledge's two Supreme Court nominations: confirmed as an original associate justice in 1789, then nominated chief justice in 1795 after Jay's resignation; his recess appointment ended when the Senate rejected him 14-10 over his Jay Treaty speech.
John S. Samuels III
John S. Samuels III was an American lawyer and coal industry executive who built a coal empire after buying the Leckie Smokeless Coal Company in 1973.
John Schneeberger
John Schneeberger was convicted of sexual assault and obstruction of justice in Canada in 1999 after falsifying DNA samples. His citizenship was later revoked, and he was deported to South Africa.
John Schrank
John Flammang Schrank (1876–1943), Bavarian-born Milwaukee saloonkeeper, shot Theodore Roosevelt on October 14, 1912; declared insane after a McKinley-ghost delusion, he died institutionalized in Wisconsin.
John Slate
John H. Slate (1913-1967), American aviation lawyer, co-founded Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York on April Fools' Day 1948 with Marshall Skadden and Les Arps; former Pan Am employee, Columbia classmate of Thomas Merton, died September 1967.
John Smyth (barrister)
John Smyth, full name John Jackson Smyth, was a British barrister and Queen's Counsel who abused boys at Christian summer camps in England, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
John Straffen
John Thomas Straffen (1930–2007), English child murderer and Britain's longest-serving prisoner. Killed two Bath girls in 1951, escaped Broadmoor in 1952, killed Linda Bowyer, was reprieved from a death sentence on insanity grounds and died at Frankland prison after 55 years.
John T. Fowlkes, Jr.
John T. Fowlkes, Jr., born in 1951, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge for the Western District of Tennessee until his retirement in January 2026.
John T. Shepherd (judge)
John T. Shepherd, born in 1987 in El Dorado, Arkansas, is a United States district judge for the Western District of Arkansas, confirmed by the Senate in April 2026.