credit: Free Law Project / CourtListener as the source of this data

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 # US Judges — the CourtListener people database
 
+## Source & credit — Free Law Project / CourtListener
+
+This dataset is the **CourtListener people database**, taken from the Free Law Project /
+CourtListener bulk export of **2026-06-30**. CourtListener researched, assembled and maintains these
+judge records; [Free Law Project](https://free.law) — the 501(c)(3) non-profit behind it, building
+free public access to American law since 2010 — pays for it. We reformatted; they did the hard part.
+Go to the source: <https://www.courtlistener.com>.
+
+**Free Law Project is a non-profit, and it is worth supporting: <https://free.law/donate/>.**
+If this data is useful to you, credit Free Law Project and CourtListener too, and consider going
+straight to the source: CourtListener runs its own
+[API and MCP server](https://wiki.free.law/c/courtlistener/help/api).
+
 Structured records of U.S. judges: who they are, every judicial position they have held, where they
 studied, and their political affiliations. From the Free Law Project / CourtListener bulk export of
 **2026-06-30**, public domain.