According to the
most recent annual reports of The Judge Advocates General, in FY2025 the armed forces' 116 trial judges conducted a total of 1191 general, special and "short" courts-martial. Counting the reserve judges as 1/12 because they likely only serve on active duty for about one month per year, produces an adjusted total "purple" trial judiciary of 82.1 judges and an average caseload of only 14.51 cases/judge or 1.21 cases/judge/month. Both averages would be slightly higher if any of the Coast Guard's 10 military judges were reservists. Unlike the other annual reports, the Coast Guard's report does not distinguish between active and reserve component judges.
You can call it a
decrescendo or a diminuendo, but the numbers are falling. For FY19, the average caseload per judge was
20.75 (1.73 cases/judge/month); for CY22, it was
16.19, or 1.35 cases/judge/month. What does the prediction market tell us for FY26?
Are there too many military judges?
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