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Appeals from this one district court went directly to the United States Supreme Court. On February 13, 1801, in the famous "Midnight Judges" Act of 1801, 2 Stat. 89, Congress abolished the U.S. district court in Tennessee, [2] and expanded the number of circuits to six, provided for independent circuit court judgeships, and abolished the ...
On July 13, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Parker to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, to the seat vacated by Judge Samuel H. Mays Jr., who assumed senior status on July 1, 2015.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. As of June 21, 2023, the acting United States attorney is Tessa M. Gorman. [1] The position of United States marshal for the district is vacant. [2]
On December 16, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Fowlkes to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. [1] He was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Bernice Bouie Donald who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on September 8, 2011.
The formal naming convention for the district courts is "United States District Court for" followed by the district name. Each district court has one or more meeting places at which it holds hearings and conducts business. Many federal courthouses are named after notable judges, such as the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York ...
Pages in category "Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois was eliminated and a new United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois was created in its place on October 2, 1978. There are a few additional extinct district courts that fall into neither of the above two patterns.
Each of the 50 states has between one and four Article III district courts, and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico each have one Article III district court. Article III judges have lifetime tenure. The insular areas of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands each have one Article IV territorial court ...