President Biden has appointed 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 has exceeded Clinton and Obama with 63 appointments, to 62 each for Clinton and Obama. The full numbers follow: Joe Biden appointed 63, 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.