[Labyrinthos]

NOTHING in the Constitution requires a federal Judge to be a lawyer.

That is true. But has a non-lawyer ever been appointed to the federal bench?

[The Hollywood Conservative]

I seem to recall from somewhere that, YES, some non-lawyers have been placed on the Federal Bench. I think the practice was much more common in the early days of the Union, when formal requirements for the practice of law were much less stringent.

This is not too hard to imagine given that something like 40 states DO NOT require all judges/magistrates/administrative law judges to be lawyers.