Details about this story

• Source: Fox 5 DC
• Date: March 05, 2009
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Tisha Thompson
• Topics: Courts
• Data Types: Federal Data
• Description/Excerpt: Fox 5 analyzed biographical data for more than 1,200 federal judges and found over a third are over 70, the age at which most states force their judges to retire. As a result, some critics charge the federal judiciary lacks diversity and retains judges past their prime.