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Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Field	Value
post	Reporter of Decisions
body	the Supreme Court of the United States
insignia	Seal of the United States Supreme Court.svg
insigniasize	125
insigniacaption	Seal of the Supreme Court
incumbent	Rebecca Anne Womeldorf
incumbentsince	January 13, 2021
department	Supreme Court of the United States
style	Reporter
status	Editor-in-chief
Publisher
reports_to	Supreme Court of the United States
Chief Justice of the United States
seat	Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C.
appointer	The Supreme Court
termlength	No fixed term
constituting_instrument
formation	1817
first	Alexander J. Dallas
website

Publisher Chief Justice of the United States The reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States is the official charged with editing and publishing the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States, both when announced and when they are published in permanent bound volumes of the United States Reports. The reporter is responsible for only the contents of the United States Reports issued by the Government Publishing Office, first in preliminary prints and later in the final bound volumes. The reporter is not responsible for the editorial content of unofficial reports of the court's decisions, such as the privately published Supreme Court Reporter and Lawyers' Edition.

By federal statute, the reporter is appointed by the Supreme Court. The current reporter is Rebecca Anne Womeldorf.

History

The first two reporters acted in an unofficial capacity. Only in 1817 did Congress create the statutory office of reporter, with a $1,000 a year salary. The early reporters profited from selling the printed volumes of the reports of decisions. In 1874, Congress for the first time appropriated funds to publish the volumes of the court's opinions; from that time the report was known as the United States Reports and numbering began as if the first volume by the first reporter, Alexander J. Dallas, was number one. The Government Printing Office took over publication of the United States Reports in 1922. The title of court's reporter was changed to "Reporter of Decisions" in 1953, to clarify the duties of the office.

List of reporters

The 16 reporters of decisions are listed here with their tenures and the volumes of the United States Reports they edited. Volumes 1 through 90 were also known by the name of the reporter of decisions at the time and the numbers of those nominative reports are listed after the United States Reports numbers.

Name	Tenure	Volumes edited	Source:
1	[[File:Alexander James Dallas.jpg	60px]]	Alexander J. Dallas	1790–1800
2	[[File:William Cranch portrait.jpg	60px]]	William Cranch	1801–1815
3	[[File:Henry Wheaton by George Peter Alexander Healy.png	60px]]	Henry Wheaton	1816–1827
4	[[File:Eastman Johnson, Richard Peters, c. 1842, NGA 180965 (cropped).jpg	60px]]	Richard Peters	1828–1842
5	[[File:Benjamin Chew Howard 1791-1872.jpg	60px]]	Benjamin Chew Howard	1843–1860
6	[[File:Judge Jeremiah Black.jpg	60px]]	Jeremiah S. Black	1861–1862
7	[[File:John William Wallace - John Neagle (page 25 crop).jpg	60px]]	John William Wallace	1863–1874
8	[[File:WilliamTodOtto.jpg	60px]]	William Tod Otto	1875–1883
9	[[File:J. C. Bancroft Davis.jpg	60px]]	J. C. Bancroft Davis	1883–1902
10	[[File:BUTLER, CHARLES HENRY LCCN2016860312.jpg	60px]]	Charles Henry Butler	1902–1916
11		Ernest Knaebel	1916–1944
		Office vacant	1944–1946
12		Walter Wyatt	1946–1963
13	[[File:Henry Putzel Jr., Reporter of the Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, half-length portrait, facing front, seated at a desk in his office, surrounded by law books, Washington, D.C.tif	60px]]	Henry Putzel Jr.	1964–1979
14		Henry Curtis Lind	1979–1987
15		Frank D. Wagner	title= Christine L. Fallon Named Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.	url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/pr_03-07-11	publisher=Supreme Court of the United States	date=March 7, 2020	access-date=August 11, 2020}}
16	[[File:Christine Luchok Fallon.jpg	60px]]	Christine Luchok Fallon	March 3, 2011 –
September 25, 2020
17		Rebecca Anne Womeldorf	title= Rebecca Womeldorf Named Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.	url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/pressreleases/pr_12-28-20	publisher=Supreme Court of the United States	date=December 28, 2020	access-date=December 28, 2020}} –
present

References

''See'': {{USC. 28. 673c
''See'': {{USStat. 3. 376
(December 28, 2020). "Rebecca Anne Womeldorf has been named the new Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.". [[United States Supreme Court]].
"Court Officers and Staff: Reporter of Decisions". [[Federal Judicial Center]].
(March 7, 2020). "Christine L. Fallon Named Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.". Supreme Court of the United States.
(December 28, 2020). "Rebecca Womeldorf Named Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S.". Supreme Court of the United States.
Joyce, Craig. (9 August 2005). "Reporters of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States". University of Houston Law Center.

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