28 U.S.C. § 373 — Judges in territories and possessions

(a) A judge of the District Court of Guam, the District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the District Court of the Virgin Islands who retires after meeting the age and service rules in (b) receives, for the rest of their life, an annuity equal to the salary they were earning when they retired. (b) The age and service combinations that qualify for retirement under (a) are: age 65 with 15 years of service, age 66 with 14 years, age 67 with 13 years, age 68 with 12 years, age 69 with 11 years, or age 70 with 10 years. (c) (1) A judge or former judge getting this annuity may choose to become a "senior judge" of the court they served on before retiring. (2) That court's circuit chief judge may recall a senior judge, with the judge's consent, to handle judicial duties for the court they retired from, for whatever time the chief judge sets. (3) Anything a senior judge does or fails to do while serving under such a recall counts the same as if an active judge did or failed to do it — but the senior judge doesn't count toward that court's official number of authorized judgeships. (4) While performing recalled duties, a senior judge is paid the same salary and travel and expense allowances as an active judge on that court, instead of the annuity. (5) A senior judge performing recalled duties must always follow the code of judicial conduct for U.S. judges approved by the Judicial Conference. (d) A judge who becomes a senior judge under (c) stops being a senior judge, and stops being eligible for recall, if they later (1) accept a civil office or job with the U.S. government (other than recalled judicial duties), (2) practice law, or (3) seriously violate the code of judicial conduct. (e) A judge of these three courts who is removed by the President solely for mental or physical disability, or who is not reappointed, becomes entitled — once they turn 65, or immediately if already past 65 when they leave office — to: (1) a lifetime annuity equal to the salary they received when they left, if their total judicial service was 15 years or more; or (2) a lifetime annuity equal to that same salary times (years served divided by 15), if their total judicial service was between 10 and 15 years. (f) Any time served as a judge of these three courts, or of any other U.S. court defined in section 451, counts toward the total years of judicial service used in this section. (g) A retired judge getting an annuity under (a) also gets a cost-of-living adjustment, calculated the same way as under section 8340(b) of title 5 — except the adjusted annuity can never be more than 95% of a sitting U.S. district judge's current salary.