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Questionnaires filled out by judges as part of the nomination process may be included with the hearing documents as an appendix or in a volume of errata. Older forms can be difficult or impossible to locate.

A great resource is the the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives.

In many cases the nominee questionnaire or a short biography is appended to the printed committee confirmation hearings. That is the best source for finding older questionnaires. Since 2009, the archived Senate Judiciary Committee website, found through the Center's Congressional Web Harvest, can also be a useful source for locating questionnaires.

While the Center holds unpublished nomination records in Record Group 46, Records of the United States Senate, these records are closed for 50 years, per Senate Resolution 474, 96th Congress. We have found that each committee handles nominations differently, not only in the questions that are posed to the nominees, but when or whether those responses are made available to the public by the committee. Questionnaires are not always released by the committee. Further, the records sometimes contain different versions of the questionnaire as well as supplements and appendices. We have no way of knowing which version the committee made public, if any. If the questionnaire is not printed or posted on the website, we must assume the committee did not release it and, so we withhold the questionnaires.

The Congressional Research Service report, Questioning Judicial Nominees: Legal Limitations and Practice may be helpful to you.