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The Federal Public Defender's Office represents individuals who cannot afford to hire a lawyer in federal criminal cases and related matters. The office is assigned to cases by the district courts in three districts (New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts), and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
John Adams (1735–1826) – 2nd President of the United States; John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) – 6th President of the United States; George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) – 41st President of the United States; Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) – 30th President of the United States; John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) – 35th President of the United States
First African American male (Massachusetts Housing Court): John G. Martin in 1984 [22] First Asian American male: Richard J. Chin (1974) from 1989-1993 [23] [24] First openly LGBT male: Dermot Meagher from 1989-2006 [25] [26] [27] First African American male (Presiding Judge; district court): Elwood S. McKenney [28]
Angel Kelley U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kelley to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to the seat vacated by Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, who assumed senior status on June 1, 2015.
Each district also has a United States Marshal who serves the court system. Three territories of the United States — the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands — have district courts that hear federal cases, including bankruptcy cases. [1] The breakdown of what is in each judicial district is codified in 28 U.S.C. §§ 81–131.
Julia Eleanor Kobick (born 1983) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts since 2023. [2] She previously served as deputy state solicitor in the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General.
Douglas Preston Woodlock (born February 27, 1947) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut, Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating, Woodlock was a lawyer in private ...
From 1801 to 1802, the District of Columbia and pieces of Maryland and Virginia formed the United States District Court for the District of Potomac, which was the first United States district court to cross state lines. During the same period, the United States District Court for the District of Norfolk was carved out of another piece of ...