Public-job record

Connections

Documented public-job edges from the Federal Judicial Center, the Rhode Island clerk notice, and named filings, retrieved 2026-08-26. No DataRepublican officer HIT was retrieved for this build. Emphasis is the compiler’s.

Fact

John James McConnell Jr. is a relations subject with a short public-job graph: who nominated him, whose seat he took, whom he succeeded as chief judge, and a 2026 Judicial Conference line. Crossroads Rhode Island appears as a House-resolution claim, not as a court finding.

The chart below is only the stored edges. A line is not a crime. A board seat alleged in a resolution is not an invented affiliation. Opinion is in the marked band at the bottom.

Chart

John James McConnell Jr.

Relations · Fact Nominated by as Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Barack Obama FJC: nominated January 5, 2011; commissioned May 6, 2011.
Relations · Fact Succeeded as Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island Ernest C. Torres FJC: seat vacated by Ernest C. Torres.
Relations · Fact Succeeded as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island William E. Smith Clerk notice: Smith served as chief judge December 1, 2013–November 30, 2019.
Relations · Fact Member as of 2026 Judicial Conference of the United States FJC professional career line, 2026–present.
Relations · Allegation Named as director / former chair in H.Res. 241 Crossroads Rhode Island House resolution claim; Examiner/AFL reporting. Not a court finding of a conflict.

Source for each edge

Federal Judicial Center biography, retrieved 2026-08-26. Obama nomination; Torres seat; Judicial Conference 2026–present. fjc.gov
District of Rhode Island clerk notice, December 1, 2019. Smith succession. rid.uscourts.gov
H. Res. 241, 119th Cong., Article II (Crossroads claim). congress.gov

What this is not

It is not a finding that John James McConnell Jr. committed a crime. An appointment is an appointment. A House allegation about a board seat is a House allegation.

No DataRepublican officer HIT was retrieved. Stored edges not drawn: Motley Rice partnership (named by Grassley and a firm notice, not printed on the FJC extract used for identity); Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island (Grassley / H.Res. 241); Rhode Island Democratic State Committee treasurer (Grassley). Those omissions are scope, not denials.

It is not a White House product. It is not a Method page.