The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio is the federal trial court for the northern half of Ohio,encompassing most territories north of the city of Columbus. The court has courthouses in Cleveland,Toledo,Akron and Youngstown.
Edith Hollan Jones is a United States circuit judge and the former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Alice M. Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She is currently a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She served as chief judge from 2009 until 2014. She also was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a United States Supreme Court seat that ultimately went to Justice Samuel Alito. Her husband William G. Batchelder was a former state Court of Appeals judge and a state legislator,who had served more than 30 years in the Ohio House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 2011 until 2014.
Deborah Louise Cook is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,based in Akron,Ohio. She served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1995 to 2003.
Samuel H. Bell was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Karen Nelson Moore is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Her chambers are in Cleveland,Ohio.
Frank Joseph Battisti was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Battisti's career featured groundbreaking—and sometimes controversial—rulings,notably his finding in 1976 that the Cleveland public school system was guilty of racial segregation. Two years earlier,in 1974,he dismissed a case against eight members of the Ohio Army National Guard accused of violating the civil rights of four Kent State University students who were shot dead in 1970. In the 1980s,he presided over a high-profile case involving Cleveland autoworker John Demjanjuk,who was deported amid charges that he committed war crimes in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. During his decades as a jurist,Battisti was honored by various professional and civic organizations,but he was also a target of criticism.
David Dudley Dowd Jr. was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio in Akron,Ohio.
Ben Charles Green was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Robert Bazil Krupansky was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Thomas Demetrios Lambros was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Sara Elizabeth Lioi is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio,while also serving as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
John Michael Manos was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Donald C. Nugent is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Daniel Aaron Polster is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Polster mediated a settlement between the city of Cleveland and the family of Tamir Rice,a 12-year-old black boy who was killed by a white police officer in 2014. In December 2017,a federal judicial panel selected Polster to preside over more than 3,000 consolidated prescription opioid-related lawsuits in multidistrict litigation known as the National Prescription Opiate Litigation. A trial for the litigation began in October 2021.
John Kenneth Bush is an American attorney and United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Bush graduated from Harvard Law School and practiced in Washington,D.C.,and Louisville,Kentucky,where he served as president of the local branch of the Federalist Society. In 2017,he was nominated to a seat on the Sixth Circuit by President Donald Trump.
Pamela Ann Barker is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She formerly served as a Judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.
Chad Andrew Readler is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a principal deputy and former acting assistant attorney general for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division.
Eric Earl Murphy is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and former Solicitor General of Ohio.
Jude Philip Calabrese is an American jurist who serves as a district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He formerly served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas from 2019 to 2020.
