The Conference considered judgeship requests for 55 district courts and seven courts of appeals in 1990. The limitations of current workload measures and the judgmental nature of much of the Conference's decisionmaking prevented conclusions regarding whether the 1990 recommendations accurately reflected the need for additional judges. However, within these limitations, findings indicated the Conference's method of determining the need for more judges to be reasonable. In developing its recommendations, the Conference judgmentally applied both written and unwritten policies, procedures, and methods and was generally consistent in applying them to each court. The workload measures are 13 years old and are being revised. Preliminary efforts are also underway to produce better measures of appellate court workloads. Figures, tables, and appended tables and agency comments