Editing Calvin Coolidge (section)

===Judicial appointments===
{{Main|List of federal judges appointed by Calvin Coolidge}}
{{see also|Harlan F. Stone Supreme Court nomination}}
[[File:Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone photograph circa 1927-1932.jpg|thumb|upright|Coolidge appointed [[Harlan F. Stone]] first as attorney general and then as a Supreme Court justice.]]

In 1925, Coolidge appointed one justice to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]], [[Harlan F. Stone]]. Stone was Coolidge's fellow Amherst alumnus, a Wall Street lawyer and conservative Republican. In 1924, Stone was serving as the dean of [[Columbia Law School]] when Coolidge appointed him to be attorney general to restore the reputation tarnished by Harding's attorney general, [[Harry M. Daugherty]].{{sfn|Fuess|1940|p=364}} 

It does not appear that Coolidge considered appointing anyone other than Stone, although Stone urged him to appoint [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]].{{sfn| Handler |1995|pp=113–122}} Stone proved to be a firm believer in [[judicial restraint]] and was regarded as one of the court's [[The Three Musketeers (Supreme Court)|three liberal justices]] who often voted to uphold New Deal legislation.{{sfn|Galston|loc=''passim''}} President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] later appointed Stone chief justice.

Coolidge nominated 17 judges to the [[United States Courts of Appeals]] and 61 to the [[United States district courts]]. He appointed judges to various specialty courts, including [[Genevieve R. Cline]], who became the first woman named to the federal judiciary when Coolidge placed her on the [[United States Customs Court]] in 1928.{{sfn|Freeman|2002|p=216}} Coolidge signed the [[Judiciary Act of 1925]] into law, allowing the Supreme Court more discretion over its workload.