The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is an Article I court that exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the United States Armed Forces on active duty and other persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The court is composed of five civilian judges appointed for 15-year terms by the president of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The court reviews decisions from the intermediate appellate courts of the services:the Army Court of Criminal Appeals,the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals,the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals,and the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.
The United States District Court for the District of Montana is the United States District Court whose jurisdiction is the state of Montana. The court is located in Billings,Butte,Great Falls,Helena and Missoula.
The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois serves the residents of forty-six counties,which are divided into four divisions. The counties are:Adams,Brown,Bureau,Cass,Champaign,Christian,Coles,DeWitt,Douglas,Edgar,Ford,Fulton,Greene,Hancock,Henderson,Henry,Iroquois,Kankakee,Knox,Livingston,Logan,McDonough,McLean,Macoupin,Macon,Marshall,Mason,Menard,Mercer,Montgomery,Morgan,Moultrie,Peoria,Piatt,Pike,Putnam,Rock Island,Sangamon,Schuyler,Scott,Shelby,Stark,Tazewell,Vermilion,Warren,and Woodford counties.
The Superior Court of the District of Columbia,commonly referred to as DC Superior Court,is the trial court for the District of Columbia,in the United States. It hears cases involving criminal and civil law,as well as family court,landlord and tenant,probate,tax and driving violations. All appeals of Superior Court decisions go to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Steven Michael Colloton is the chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He has served as judge of the court since 2003 and became chief judge in March 2024.
The Montana Supreme Court is the highest court of the state court system in the U.S. state of Montana. It is established and its powers defined by Article VII of the 1972 Montana Constitution. It is primarily an appellate court which reviews civil and criminal decisions of Montana's trial courts of general jurisdiction and certain specialized legislative courts,only having original jurisdiction in a limited number of actions. The court's Chief Justice and six Associate Justices are elected by non-partisan,popular elections. The Montana Supreme Court meets in the Joseph P. Mazurek Building in Helena,Montana,the state's capital,an international style building completed in 1982 and named in the honor of former Montana Attorney General,Joseph P. Mazurek.
Paul Redmond Michel is a retired United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a former Chief Judge of that court.
Scott Wallace Stucky is a Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. His term as a judge began on December 20,2006,and expired on July 31,2021.
Robert Morton Duncan was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
Gustavo Antonio GelpíJr. is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He is a former chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.
Paul Gerhart Hatfield was an American attorney,politician,and jurist. He served briefly as United States Senator from Montana in 1978,and then as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Montana.
Andrew Samuel Effron is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He took his judicial oath on August 1,1996,and became chief judge in 2006. His term expired September 30,2011.
David Jeremiah Barron is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.
Charles Frederick Lettow was an American lawyer who served as a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. He was appointed in 2003 by President George W. Bush.
Kevin Alan Ohlson is an American lawyer who serves as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Gary Stephen Katzmann is an American lawyer who has served as a United States judge of the United States Court of International Trade since 2016. He previously served as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court from 2004 to 2016.
John Edward Sparks is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and former commissioner to the chief judge of the same court.
Ryan Douglas Nelson is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was previously nominated to become Solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior,but was never confirmed.
Liam Patrick Hardy is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
