The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee is the federal district court covering the western part of the state of Tennessee. Appeals from the Western District of Tennessee are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina is a United States district court with jurisdiction over 24 counties in the center of North Carolina. It consists of five divisions with a headquarters in Greensboro,North Carolina.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania is a federal trial court that sits in Pittsburgh,Erie,and Johnstown,Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Julia Smith Gibbons is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Terrence William Boyle is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. He was chief judge of that court from 1997 to 2004. He served a second term as chief judge from 2018 to 2021. From 1991 to 1993 and again from 2001 to 2007,he was a nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. His federal appellate nomination from 2001 to 2007 is the longest in history not to be acted upon by the United States Senate.
Joan Marie Azrack is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
James Hardy Payne is an inactive senior United States District Judge in Oklahoma,sitting simultaneously on the federal courts for the Eastern,the Northern and the Western districts.
Kurt Damian Engelhardt is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Previously,he was the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations,Congress confirmed 329 judgeships,173 during the 111th &112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.
John Adrian Gibney Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The United States attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee is the chief federal law enforcement officer in forty-one Tennessee counties. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has jurisdiction over all cases prosecuted by the U.S. attorney. Doug Overbey,who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2017,is the current U.S. attorney for the District.
James "Jay" Maxwell Moody Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and former circuit judge for the Third Division of the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas.
Paul Gregory Byron is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Armando Omar Bonilla is an American attorney who is a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. Prior to this,Bonilla served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice.
Travis Randall McDonough is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and former chief of staff and counselor to the mayor of Chattanooga,Tennessee.
Waverly David Crenshaw Jr. is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
Donald Trump,President of the United States from 2017 to 2021,entered office with a significant number of judicial vacancies,including a Supreme Court vacancy due to the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016. During the first eight months of his presidency,he nominated approximately 50 judges,a significantly higher number than any other recent president had made by that point in his presidency. By June 24,2020,200 of his Article III nominees had been confirmed by the United States Senate. According to multiple media outlets,Trump significantly impacted the composition of the Supreme Court and lower courts during his tenure.
David John Novak is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Charles Edward Atchley Jr. is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
