| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (E.D. Okla.) |
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| Appeals to | Tenth Circuit |
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| Established | June 16, 1906 |
| Judges assigned | 2 |
| Chief judge | James H. Payne |
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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (in case citations, E.D. Okla. or E.D.Ok.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties: Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, Marshall, McCurtain, McIntosh, Murray, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Seminole, Sequoyah, and Wagoner. It is based in Muskogee.
Appeals from the Eastern District of Oklahoma are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The court is housed in the Ed Edmondson Courthouse Building in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Frank Howell Seay, appointed to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, was the first Native American appointed to any U.S. district court.
The United States Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Oklahoma represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney for the district is Sheldon J. Sperling.
Table of judges
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Luther Lee Bohanon | John F. Kennedy | August 30, 1961 | August 2, 1974 | July 18, 2003 | death |
| Bower Slack Broaddus | Franklin D. Roosevelt | October 1, 1940 | December 10, 1949 | – | death |
| B. Michael Burrage | Bill Clinton | June 9, 1994 | March 1, 2001 | – | resignation |
| Ralph E. Campbell | Theodore Roosevelt | November 11, 1907[1] | August 31, 1918 | – | resignation |
| H. Dale Cook | Gerald Ford | December 20, 1974 | January 1, 1992 | September 22, 2008 | death |
| Frederick Alvin Daugherty | John F. Kennedy | October 5, 1961[2] | January 12, 1982 | April 7, 2006 | death |
| Franklin Elmore Kennamer | Calvin Coolidge | February 19, 1924 | February 16, 1925 | – | assignment to another court |
| Orville Edwin Langley | Lyndon B. Johnson | January 27, 1965 | September 12, 1973 | – | death |
| Joseph Wilson Morris | Richard Nixon | April 12, 1974 | July 31, 1978 | – | resignation |
| Alfred P. Murrah | Franklin D. Roosevelt | March 3, 1937 | September 9, 1940 | – | reappointment |
| James H. Payne | George W. Bush | October 24, 2001 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Eugene Rice | Franklin D. Roosevelt | August 11, 1937 | December 1, 1963 | November 24, 1967 | death |
| David Lynn Russell | Ronald Reagan | December 17, 1981 | December 1, 1990 | – | assignment to another court |
| Frank Howell Seay | Jimmy Carter | November 2, 1979 | September 25, 2003 | Incumbent | – |
| William Robert Wallace | Harry S. Truman | June 8, 1950 | June 24, 1960 | – | death |
| Ronald A. White | George W. Bush | October 2, 2003 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Robert L. Williams | Woodrow Wilson | January 7, 1919 | April 21, 1937 | – | reappointment |
Notes
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 3, 1907, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 13, 1908, and received commission on January 13, 1908.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 15, 1962, confirmed by the United States Senate on February 7, 1962, and received commission on February 17, 1962.
External links
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma Official Website
- United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma Official Website
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