The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each district covers one U.S. state or a portion of a state. There is at least one federal courthouse in each district,and many districts have more than one. District court decisions are appealed to the U.S. court of appeals for the circuit in which they reside,except for certain specialized cases that are appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
James Gray Carr is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Sandra Lea Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that court. Lynch served as chief judge of the First Circuit from 2008 to 2015.
William Joseph Bauer is an inactive senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Harold Albert Baker was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. He was originally appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois in 1978 by Jimmy Carter and then reassigned to the newly-created Central District in 1979. He became a senior judge in 1994. He was also a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court until 2005.
Rubén Castillo is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In 1994,Castillo was the first person of Latino descent to be named a judge in the Northern District of Illinois,and in 2013 the first to become Chief Judge.
David Herndon Coar is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Thomas Samuel Zilly is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle,Washington.
Ronald Amaury Guzman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Willis Beverly Hunt Jr. is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Michael Paul Mills is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
The Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) is the oldest student-run legal services office in the United States,founded in 1913. The bureau is one of three honors societies at the law school,along with the Harvard Law Review and the Board of Student Advisers.
John Zihun Lee is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from 2012 to 2022.
Sara Lee Ellis is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Andrea Robin Wood is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Staci Michelle Yandle is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Jacqueline Scott Corley is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She served as a United States Magistrate Judge of the same court from 2011 to 2022.
Iain David Johnston is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
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.
Nancy Lee Maldonado is an American lawyer from Chicago who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is the nominee to serve as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
