The United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan is the federal district court with jurisdiction over the western portion of the state of Michigan,including the entire Upper Peninsula and the Lower Peninsula from Lansing westward.
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.
John A. Smietanka was the prosecutor for Berrien County,Michigan,from 1974 to 1981,and a United States Attorney in the Western District of Michigan,appointed by Ronald Reagan,from 1981 until 1994.
John E. Steele is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
The Judicial Conference of the United States,formerly known as the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges,was created by the United States Congress in 1922 with the principal objective of framing policy guidelines for administration of judicial courts in the United States. The Conference derives its authority from 28 U.S.C. § 331,which states that it is headed by the chief justice of the United States and consists of the chief justice,the chief judge of each court of appeals federal regional circuit,a district court judge from various federal judicial districts,and the chief judge of the United States Court of International Trade.
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.
Christopher Allan Boyko is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Robert Hardy Cleland is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Benjamin F. Gibson was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
David M. Lawson is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
William Marion Skretny is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.
George E. Woods was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Thomas E. Delahanty II was an American lawyer and former judge. He was the former United States Attorney for the District of Maine.
John Thomas Fowlkes Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
Terrence George Berg is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Roseann Ambrosia Ketchmark is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri and a former assistant United States attorney.
