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All nine. It has become common in the past few decades to appoint potential future Supreme Court justices to the US Court of Appeals Circuit Courts for development and to create a record of their jurisprudence for later evaluation.

Sonia Sotomayor is the only current justice with prior judicial experience on both a US Court of Appeals Circuit Court and a US District Court.

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