Stephanie Kulp Seymour (born October 16, 1940) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She was the first female federal court judge in Oklahoma. In 2025, Seymour became the longest-serving judge in the history of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Stephanie Kulp Seymour
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Born 1940 in Battle Creek, MI
FJC ID: 2153
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 87/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 1,087/year
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–2005
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1994–2000
- Private practice, Tulsa, Oklahoma1966–1967, 1971–1979
- Private practice, Houston, Texas1968–1969
- Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts1965–1966
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth CircuitChief Judge1979–2005 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
Education
J.D. · 1965- Smith CollegeB.A. · 1962