Mayor Robert F. Wagner named her to a vacant seat and reappointed her to a full seven-year term two years later.

For the 2009 legislative session, Peniston was named to chair the House Local Government Committee and to a seat on the House Education Committee.

Two years later, Mr. Carter named him to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

After the promulgation of the federal constitution, which created the Mexican Supreme Court, he was named to a seat in that body (25 December 1824).

Wilson named Anderson as a Judge of the First Circuit on October 1, 1918, to a seat vacated by Frederic Dodge.

Before he could serve, however, Justice Davis disqualified himself when the Illinois Legislature named him to a seat in the Senate.

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter named him to a seat on the Federal bench.

Before a vote, however, the Illinois Legislature named Justice Davis to a seat in the United States Senate.

In the 112th Congress, Buchanan was named to a seat on the Ways and Means Committee, the only Member from Florida serving on that Committee.

In 1973, Mayor John V. Lindsay named him to a $36,500-a-year seat on the criminal court, in the company of former city officials who had resigned to become judges.