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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

United States federal district court in Louisiana

Summary

United States federal district court in Louisiana

Field	Value
court_type	district
court_name	United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
abbreviation	E.D. La.
seal	file:Louisiana-eastern.gif
seal_size	150
map_image_name	United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_Louisiana.svg
map_image_width	150
location	New Orleans
location1	Houma
appeals_to	Fifth Circuit
established	March 3, 1881
judges_assigned	12
chief	Wendy Vitter
us_attorney	Michael M. Simpson (acting)
us_marshal	Enix Smith III
official_site

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (in case citations, E.D. La.) is a United States federal court based in New Orleans.

Appeals from the Eastern District of Louisiana are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana is Duane A. Evans.

Jurisdiction

This district comprises the following parishes: Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington.

History

On March 26, 1804, Congress organized the Territory of Orleans and created the United States District Court for the District of Orleans—the only time Congress provided a territory with a district court equal in its authority and jurisdiction to those of the states. The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by , several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts on March 3, 1823, by .

On February 13, 1845, Louisiana was reorganized into a single District with one judgeship, by , but was again divided into Eastern and the Western Districts on March 3, 1849, by . Congress again abolished the Western District of Louisiana and reorganized Louisiana as a single judicial district on July 27, 1866, by . On March 3, 1881, by , Louisiana was for a third time divided into Eastern and the Western Districts, with one judgeship authorized for each. The Middle District was formed from portions of those two Districts on December 18, 1971, by .

After the United States District Court for the Canal Zone was abolished on March 31, 1982, all pending litigation was transferred to the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Current judges

:

Vacancies and pending nominations

Seat	Prior judge's duty station	Seat last held by	Vacancy reason	Date of vacancy	Nominee	Date of nomination
5	New Orleans	Sarah S. Vance	Senior status	January 16, 2024	Anna St. John	January 29, 2026
2	Lance Africk	October 1, 2024

Former judges

1849–1861Reassigned from the District of Louisiana. Operation of law resignation

Chief judges

Succession of seats

List of U.S. Attorneys

The U.S. Attorney is the chief law-enforcement officer for the district.

John W. Smith (1821–1829)
John Slidell (1829–1833)
Henry Carlton (1833–1836)
P. K. Lawrence (1836–1837)
Thomas Slidell (1837–1838)
Benjamin F. Linton (1838–1841)
Balie Peyton (1841–1845)
Solomon W. Downs (1845–1846)
Thomas I. Durant (1846–1850)
Logan Hunton (1850–1853)
E. Warren Moise (1853–1855)
Thomas S. McCay (1855–1856)
Franklin H. Clack (1856–1857)
Thomas J. Semmes (1857–1859)
Henry C. Miller (1859–1863)
Rufus Waples (1863)
James R. Beckwith (1870)
Albert H. Leonard (1878–1885)
Charles Parlange (1885–1889)
William Grant (1889–1892)
Ferdinand B. Earhart (1892–1896)
J. Ward Gurley Jr. (1896–1900)
William W. Howe (1900–1907)
Rufus E. Foster (1907–1909)
Carlton R. Beattie (1909–1913)
Walter Guion (1913–1917)
Joseph W. Montgomery (1917–1919)
Henry Mooney (1919–1921)
Louis H. Burns (1921–1925)
Wayne G. Borah (1925–1928)
Edmond E. Talbot (1928–1933)
William H. Norman (1933)
Rene A. Viosca (1933–1934)
Warren Doyle (1934–1937)
Herbert W. Christenberry (1937–1941)
Robert Winestein (1941–1947)
J. Skelly Wright (1948–1949)
John M. McKay (1949–1950)
George R. Blue (1950–1953)
M. Hepburn Many (1953–1957)
Kathleen Ruddell (1957–1961)
Louis C. LaCour (1967–1969)
Gerald J. Gallinghouse (1969–1978)
John P. Volz (1978–1991)
Harry A. Rosenberg (1991–93)
Robert J. Boitmann (1993)
Eddie J. Jordan Jr. (1994–2001)
Jim Letten (2001–2012)
Dana Boente (2012–2013)
Kenneth Polite (2013–2017)
Duane A. Evans (2017–2018)
Peter G. Strasser (2018–2021)
Duane A. Evans (2021–present)

References

(February 26, 2021). "Assistant U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans Appointed As Interim United States Attorney". United States Attorney's Office.
(July 29, 2022). "Meet the U.S. Attorney". United States Department of Justice.
{{USCode. 28. 98
[http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/courts_district_la.html U.S. District Courts of Louisiana, Legislative history], ''[[Federal Judicial Center]]''.
Asbury Dickens, ''A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America'' (1852), p. 392.
Executive Office for United States Attorneys. (1989). "Bicentennial Celebration of United States Attorneys, 1789–1989". United States Department of Justice.
"The Political Graveyard: U.S. District Attorneys in Louisiana".
(2013-01-12). "The United States Department of Justice – United States Attorney's Office".

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