The Judicial Conference of the United States ordered the release of inappropriate emails sent by former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Friday after a federal judge petitioned a review of the March 2013 federal appeals court ruling, according to the Associated Press.

The Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found emails sent from Cebull to personal and professional contacts expressing a "disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religious faiths and some with inappropriate jokes about sexual orientation," the AP reported.

Many of the emails sent by Cebull concerned issues that may have presented themselves in his courtroom, like immigration, gun control laws and civil rights, according to the March 2013 council ruling, the AP reported.

The council ordered no new cases be assigned to Cebull for 180 days, they issued him a public reprimand, ordered him to complete training on "judicial ethics, racial awareness and elimination of bias" and ordered him to make a second public apology acknowledging "the breadth of his behavior," according to the AP.

Cebull retired two weeks later on March 29, 2013, and the council promptly removed the old order and replaced it with a new one stating the complaints were "moot" against him because of his retirement, the AP reported. The council also rewrote the second order and excluded the findings of the complaints.

The changes prompted a federal judge to call for a national judicial review of the hearings and accused the council of trying to hide Cebulls "misconduct," according to the AP. Neither the first orders or the findings were ever released until Friday.

"The imperative of transparency of the complaint process compels publication of orders finding judicial misconduct," the national judicial panel wrote in its decision.