The District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands is a federal territorial court whose jurisdiction comprises the United States-affiliated Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). It was established by Act of Congress in 1977,pursuant to an international agreement between the United States and the CNMI that brought the CNMI under United States sovereignty. The court began hearing cases in January 1978. The court regularly sits in Saipan but may sit elsewhere in the CNMI. The court has the same jurisdiction as United States district courts,including diversity jurisdiction and bankruptcy jurisdiction. However,the District Court is not an Article III U.S. District Court,and because of that its judge is appointed for a 10-year term instead of for life. Appeals are taken to the Ninth Circuit.
William K. Sessions III is serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and has served as the Vice Chair and eventually as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission. He was confirmed on October 21,2009 as Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission,and served until December 22,2010.
James Leon Holmes is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Denzil Price Marshall Jr. is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations,Congress confirmed 329 judgeships,173 during the 111th &112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.
Edward John Davila is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was previously a state court judge on the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2001 to 2011.
Anthony Joseph Battaglia is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
James Paul Oetken,known professionally as J. Paul Oetken,is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is the first openly gay man to be confirmed as an Article III judge.
Michael Francis Urbanski is the Chief United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Susan Bronwyn Owens Hickey is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
Timothy Lloyd Brooks is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
James "Jay" Maxwell Moody Jr. is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and former circuit judge for the Third Division of the Sixth Judicial District of Arkansas.
Paul Gregory Byron is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Walter David Counts III is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Lee Philip Rudofsky is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Joseph Dawson III is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Doris Lenea Pryor is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Indiana from 2018 to 2022.
