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United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Current United States federal appellate court

Field	Value
court_type	circuit
court_name	United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
abbreviation	6th Cir.
seal	US-CourtOfAppeals-6thCircuit-Seal.png
seal_size	150
map_image_name	File:6th Circuit map.svg
courthouse	Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse
location	Cincinnati, Ohio
appeals_from	Eastern District of Kentucky
appeals_from1	Western District of Kentucky
appeals_from2	Eastern District of Michigan
appeals_from3	Western District of Michigan
appeals_from4	Northern District of Ohio
appeals_from5	Southern District of Ohio
appeals_from6	Eastern District of Tennessee
appeals_from7	Middle District of Tennessee
appeals_from8	Western District of Tennessee
established	June 16, 1891
judges_assigned	16
circuit_justice	Brett Kavanaugh
chief	Jeffrey Sutton
official_site

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:

Eastern District of Kentucky
Western District of Kentucky
Eastern District of Michigan
Western District of Michigan
Northern District of Ohio
Southern District of Ohio
Eastern District of Tennessee
Middle District of Tennessee
Western District of Tennessee

The court is composed of sixteen judges and is based at the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is one of 13 United States courts of appeals.

The United States federal courts were divided into six circuits in 1801, but a circuit court of appeals was not established until the passage of the Judiciary Act of 1891.

William Howard Taft, the only person ever to serve as both President and Chief Justice of the United States, once served on the Sixth Circuit. Four other judges of the Sixth Circuit have been elevated to serve on the Supreme Court, the last being Potter Stewart in 1958. TOC

Current composition of the court

List of former judges

Chief judges

Succession of seats

Case law

Rogers v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 230 F.3d 868 (6th Cir. 2000)

Notes

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the tags, and the template below

References

{{cite web |access-date = June 26, 2005 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051021220038/https://lawclerks.ao.uscourts.gov/web/jobSearch |archive-date = October 21, 2005
- primary but incomplete source for the duty stations
{{cite web| url=http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/career/downloads/judicial_listing.html| title=Instructions for Judicial Directory| work=Website of the University of Texas Law School| access-date=July 4, 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051111193332/http://www.utexas.edu/law/depts/career/downloads/judicial_listing.html |archive-date = November 11, 2005}}
- secondary source for the duty stations
- data is current to 2002
{{cite web| url=http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/usca_06_frm?OpenFrameSet| title=U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit| work=Official website of the Federal Judicial Center| access-date=June 26, 2005 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050101190855/http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/usca_06_frm?OpenFrameSet |archive-date = January 1, 2005}}
- source for the state, lifetime, term of active judgeship, term of chief judgeship, term of senior judgeship, appointer, termination reason, and seat information
- obituary for death of Susan Bieke Neilson

References

M. Neil Reed, Tom Vanderloo, and Stephanie Woebkenberg, "[https://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/sites/ca6/files/documents/library/SixthCirHist.pdf A History of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit: Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, and Tennessee]", ''The Federal Lawyer'' (August 2016), p. 34-38.
Jackson was appointed to as a [[United States circuit court. circuit judge]] for the Sixth Circuit in 1886 by [[Grover Cleveland]]. The [[Judiciary Act of 1891]] reassigned his seat to what is now the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Mack did not have a permanent seat on this court. Instead, he was appointed to the ill-fated [[United States Commerce Court]] in 1911 by [[William Howard Taft]]. Aside from their duties on the Commerce Court, the judges of the Commerce Court also acted as at-large appellate judges, able to be assigned by the [[Chief Justice of the United States]] to whichever circuit most needed help. Mack was assigned to the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Seventh Circuit]] immediately prior to his assignment to the Sixth Circuit.
Edwards was ''nominated'' for a seat on the Sixth Circuit by President Kennedy, but he was confirmed after Kennedy's assassination and was ''appointed'' to the Sixth Circuit by (i.e., received his commission from) President Johnson.
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