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The United States District Court for the District of Georgia was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on August 11, 1848, by 9 Stat. 280 .
On December 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Cohen to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, to the seat vacated by Judge Clarence Cooper, who assumed senior status on February 9, 2009. [4] He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 13 ...
He was an assistant United States attorney of the Northern District of Georgia from 1971 to 1972, and in private practice in Georgia from 1972 to 1976. He was a special assistant attorney general of the State of Georgia from 1974 to 1976, and then a district attorney of Georgia's Conasauga Judicial Circuit from 1977 to 1979. He was a Superior ...
Steve CarMichael Jones [1] (born January 26, 1957) is a senior United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and a former judge of the Georgia Superior Court.
From 2002 to 2005, she was an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Georgia. From 2007 to 2011, she served as executive assistant district attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. From 2011 to 2014, she served as a judge on the DeKalb County state court. [1] [2]
The state of Georgia filed a lawsuit in 2015. In March 2017, a federal court in the Northern District of Georgia ruled in the state's favor, after which in 2018 the Eleventh Circuit reversed the ruling. Both Georgia and PRO appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in December 2019.
On July 7, 1977, Murphy was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia vacated by James Clinkscales Hill. Murphy was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 28, 1977, and received his commission on July 29, 1977. He assumed senior status on March 31, 2017. [3]
Ray was born in Macon, Georgia in 1963. [3] He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business in 1985, magna cum laude, his Master of Business Administration from the Terry College of Business in 1986, and his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1990.