law

Find US federal + state appellate judges by name in...

Find US federal + state appellate judges by name in CourtListener's People DB. Query by firstName (case-insensitive prefix), lastName (case-insensitive prefix), or both — at least one required. Returns id, full name + components, dates of birth/death, gender, education (school, degree level, year), political affiliations (party + appointing executive period), count of distinct judicial positions, and canonical CourtListener URL per match. Pairs with law.case-search + law.attorney-lookup to complete the WHO graph of a legal research workflow. Backed by CourtListener (Free Law Project); underlying data is public domain.

get/api/law/judge-lookup

Request

  • Base URL: https://2s.io
  • URL: https://2s.io/api/law/judge-lookup
  • Auth: API key in header PAYMENT-SIGNATURE

Query parameters

firstNamestring

First-name prefix to search (case-insensitive). "Son" matches "Sonia". Optional, but at least one of firstName/lastName required.

lastNamestring

Last-name prefix to search (case-insensitive). "Soto" matches "Sotomayor". Optional, but at least one of firstName/lastName required.

limitinteger

Max judge records to return (1-50). Default 10.

trial1

Try before you buy. Set to 1 for one free real call per endpoint per hour — no wallet or payment needed — to verify the endpoint before paying. Equivalent to sending the "X-2s-Trial: 1" request header. Listed only on operations that offer a trial; the others always answer 402.

Response

(unresolved $ref)

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.