Alfred Paul Murrah was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma is a federal court in the Tenth Circuit.
Frank Minis Johnson Jr. was a United States district judge and United States circuit judge serving 1955 to 1999 on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama,United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He made landmark civil rights rulings that helped end segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South. In the words of journalist and historian Bill Moyers,Judge Johnson "altered forever the face of the South."
Sean Francis Cox is an American lawyer and judge serving as the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
J. Rich Leonard has been the dean of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law since July 2013. He previously served as a U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina and was chief judge from 1998 until 2005. Leonard was also a former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Otto Richard Skopil Jr. was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. The native Oregonian was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1979 to 1986. Previously,he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon from 1972 to 1979,and was the chief judge of that court from 1976 to 1979. Of German ancestry,he was a veteran of World War II and received both his undergraduate education and law degree from Willamette University.
Luther Lee Bohanon was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
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.
Paul David Borman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan,having been appointed in 1994. Borman was earlier an assistant United States attorney,and Special Counsel to the Mayor of Detroit. For 15 years thereafter,he was chief federal defender of the Legal Aid &Defender Association of Detroit from 1979 to 1994. When he was appointed to be a federal judge,he became the first federal defender to be appointed to the federal bench. He was also a Professor and Assistant Dean at Wayne State University Law School,and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School.
Billy Michael Burrage,is an attorney and former United States district judge of all three districts of the United States district courts for Oklahoma:the Eastern,Western and Northern. He was appointed and confirmed in 1994 under President Bill Clinton. In 1996,he became Chief Judge of the Eastern District of Oklahoma,and served all three courts until his retirement in 2001. At that time,he returned to private practice,during which he also represented the Choctaw Nation as its general counsel and ambassador to the U.S. government.
Ralph Emerson Campbell was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
David Lynn Russell is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Lee Roy West was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Ronald Allen White is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
Arvo Quoetone Mikkanen is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He has been a judicial law clerk,civil practitioner,judge,tribal prosecutor,law professor,and federal criminal prosecutor during his legal career which began in 1986. Mikkanen is a lecturer and frequent instructor in federal criminal investigations,prosecution issues and Indian affairs law. From 1991 to 1994,he served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
Ada Elene Brown is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas. She is the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. She is also the first African American woman to sit as a federal judge in the 140- year-history of the Northern District of Texas. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation,Brown is also one of six actively serving Native American federal judges of 673 federal district court judges. When appointed to the federal bench,Brown became the only woman judge in the 233-year history of the Choctaw Nation to serve as a federal judge.
Richard Sheppard Arnold was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas and then a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
David Herrera Urias is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
