The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each district covers one U.S. state or a portion of a state. There is at least one federal courthouse in each district,and many districts have more than one. District court decisions are appealed to the U.S. court of appeals for the circuit in which they reside,except for certain specialized cases that are appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Irving Robert Kaufman was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
JoséAlberto Cabranes is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a former presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("FISCR"). Formerly a practicing lawyer,government official,and law teacher,he was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental United States (1979).
Browder v. Gayle,142 F. Supp. 707 (1956),was a landmark federal court case that ruled that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional. The case was heard before a three-judge panel of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on the segregation of Montgomery and Alabama state buses. The panel consisted of Middle District of Alabama Judge Frank Minis Johnson,Northern District of Alabama Judge Seybourn Harris Lynne,and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Rives. The main plaintiffs in the case were Aurelia Browder,Claudette Colvin,Susie McDonald,and Mary Louise Smith. Their attorney,Fred Gray,also approached Jeanetta Reese to join the suit,but intimidation by segregationists caused her to withdraw.
William John Martini is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey,having been in active service from November 14,2002,to February 10,2015. Martini is one of 24 judges seated on the New Jersey District Court,and his highest profile case to date was the corruption trial for former Newark Mayor Sharpe James.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit.
Richard M. Berman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Dennis G. Jacobs is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Herbert Jay Stern is a trial lawyer,with a national practice in civil and criminal litigation,as well as mediation and arbitration. Earlier in his career,Stern served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and as the United States Judge for Berlin.
George Benjamin Daniels is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Louis Lee Stanton is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
William Francis Smith was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
David Frank Hamilton is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. On March 17,2009,he became President Barack Obama's first judicial nominee when he was named for a seat on the Seventh Circuit. He was confirmed by the Senate on November 19,2009,in a 59–39 vote.
Naomi Lynn Reice Buchwald is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Denise Louise Cote is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Kenneth Michael Hoyt is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Robert Byron Kugler is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and also served as a Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2017 to 2024.
Alfred James Lechner Jr. is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Jose L. Linares is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey,and the former Chief Judge of that same Court from 2017 to 2019. In May 2019,he resigned as Chief Judge to return to private practice at McCarter &English.
Stephanos Bibas is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench,Bibas was a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,where he also served as director of its Supreme Court clinic.
