# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-roll
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:50:38.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-roll"
name: "John Roll"
slug: "john-roll"
description: "John McCarthy Roll was a United States district judge who served on the United States District Court for the District of Arizona from 1991 until his assassination in 2011, and as chief judge of that court from 2006 to 2011. With degrees from the University of Arizona College of Law and University of Virginia School of Law, Roll began his career as a court bailiff in Arizona and became an assistant city attorney of Tucson, Arizona in 1973. Later that year, Roll became a deputy county attorney for Pima County, Arizona until 1980, when he began serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for seven years. President George H. W. Bush appointed Roll to a federal judge seat in Arizona after Roll served four years as a state judge."
tagline: "United States federal judge (1947–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chief_Judge_John_Roll.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1947-02-08"
deathDate: "2011-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.19
  momentum:             1.133720930232558
  historical:           9.515416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%84%E7%BF%B0%C2%B7%E7%BE%85%E7%88%BE"
    title: "約翰·羅爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "جون رول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "جون رول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_Roll"
    title: "John McCarthy Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roll"
    title: "John Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_Roll"
    title: "John McCarthy Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roll"
    title: "John Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ジョン・ロール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_McCarthy_Roll"
    title: "Ioannes McCarthy Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8"
    title: "Ролл, Джон Маккарти"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roll"
    title: "John Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q609493"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump