Job of a lifetime

President Biden is on the cusp of appointing more Black judges to lifetime positions than any other president.

This bar chart shows the number of Black judges appointed to lifetime positions per president. Biden is tied with Clinton and Obama with 62 appointments each, and Biden still has weeks left in his term. The full numbers follow: Joe Biden appointed 62, Donald Trump appointed 12, Barack Obama appointed 62, George W. Bush appointed 24, Bill Clinton appointed 62, George H.W. Bush appointed 113 Ronald Reagan appointed 7, Jimmy Carter appointed 37, Gerald Ford appointed 3, Richard Nixon appointed 6, Lyndon Johnson appointed 11, John F. Kennedy appointed 3, Dwight Eisenhower appointed 1, and Harry Truman appointed 2.

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Notes: Data as of Dec. 12. Certain presidents served longer than one term. Multi-racial judges are included in this data, and judges appointed more than once under the same president are counted each time.

Source: Federal Judicial Center

Graphic: Joe Murphy and Char Adams / NBC News