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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (in case citations, N.D. Tex.) is a United States district court. Its first judge, Andrew Phelps McCormick, was appointed to the court on April 10, 1879. The court convenes in Dallas, Texas with divisions in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Abilene, Lubbock, San Angelo, and Wichita Falls.
The Texas District Courts form part of the Texas judicial system and are the trial courts of general jurisdiction of Texas. As of January 2019, 472 district courts serve the state, each with a single judge, elected by partisan election to a four-year term.
District courts are (usually) consecutively numbered regardless of whether they are specialize to handle criminal, civil, or family matters (though in some counties, Criminal District Courts have separate numbering systems, an example being Dallas County which has seven such courts numbered 1 through 11 [6]). The highest numbers indicate that ...
On June 30, 2015, an envelope containing white powder was discovered in an office on the 14th floor. The Dallas Fire-Rescue Department determined that the powder was chalk; no one was injured in the incident. [3] On June 17, 2019, a lone shooter, identified as former Army infantryman Brian Isaack Clyde, opened fire at the building. Building ...
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Texas.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
1925 built [36] Designed by M. C. Butler in the Neoclassical style. [36] Bandera County Courthouse: Bandera, Bandera County: 1891 built [37] [38] 1972 RTHL [39] 1979 NRHP [40] 2007 restored [41] Designed in the Renaissance Revival style by B.F. Trester, [37] though he may have purchased its plan from a pair of architects in Kentucky. [41 ...
On March 15, 2016, President Barack Obama agreed with U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz to nominate Scholer to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas as part of a bipartisan package of nominees which included E. Scott Frost, to the seat vacated by Judge Richard A. Schell, who assumed senior status on March 10, 2015. [5]
The following is a list of all current judges of the United States district and territorial courts. The list includes both "active" and "senior" judges, both of whom hear and decide cases. There are 89 districts in the 50 states, with a total of 94 districts including four territories and the District of Columbia .