United States District Court for the Eastern District of California

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
(E.D. Cal.)
Appeals to Ninth Circuit
Established March 18, 1966
Judges assigned 6
Chief judge Anthony W. Ishii
Official site
The Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse is the new building housing the Eastern District of California, Fresno Division, Federal Courts.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (in case citations, E.D. Cal.) is composed of six divisions.

The Bakersfield division has jurisdiction over certain cases in Inyo and Kern counties and on federal lands and National Parks. These cases are heard in courthouses in Bakersfield, Edwards Air Force Base, and Independence.

The Fresno division covers Calaveras, Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne counties.

The Redding/Susanville office hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for federal lands and National Parks in four locations: Alturas, Chester, Herlong, and Redding.

The Sacramento division covers: Alpine, Amador, Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, and Yuba counties.

The South Lake Tahoe office hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for federal lands and National Parks.

The Yosemite office hears misdemeanors and petty crimes for Yosemite National Park.

Cases from the Eastern District of California are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

The current Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California is Lawrence G. Brown, who was appointed by the Bush administration Department of Justice and sworn in on January 5, 2009 following the resignation of U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott.[1] As First Assistant U.S. Attorney, Brown had served since March 2003 as second-in-command of the office under U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott, a President George W. Bush appointee.[1]

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[edit] History

California was admitted as a state on September 9, 1850, and was initially divided into two districts, the Northern and the Southern, by Act of Congress approved September 28, 1850, 9 Stat. 521.[2] The boundary line was at the 37th parallel of North Latitude.[3] The Southern District of California was abolished and the State made to constitute a single district - the United States District Court for the District of California - by Act of Congress approved July 27, 1866, 14 Stat. 300.[2][3] Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California by 24 Stat. 308,[3] but it was not until March 18, 1966, that the Eastern and Central Districts were created from portions of the Northern and Southern Districts by 80 Stat. 75.[2]

[edit] Current Judges

  • As of January 1, 2009, a vacancy has existed in the Eastern District of California due Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr.'s decision to assume senior status. No replacement nomination is pending at this time.
Judge Appointed by Began active
service		 Ended active
service		 Ended senior
status		 End reason
Garland Ellis Burrell Jr. George H. W. Bush 01992-03-02 March 2, 1992 Incumbent – –
Anthony W. Ishii Bill Clinton 01997-10-14 October 14, 1997 Incumbent – –
Morrison C. England Jr. George W. Bush 02002-08-02 August 2, 2002 Incumbent – –
John A. Mendez George W. Bush 02008-04-17 April 17, 2008 Incumbent – –
Lawrence Joseph O'Neill George W. Bush 02007-02-02 February 2, 2007 Incumbent – –
(Seat Vacant) (n/a) (n/a) (n/a) (n/a) (n/a)
Myron Donovan Crocker Dwight D. Eisenhower 01959-09-21 September 21, 1959 01981-01-01 January 1, 1981 Incumbent –
Lawrence K. Karlton Jimmy Carter 01979-07-24 July 24, 1979 02000-05-28 May 28, 2000 Incumbent –
Robert Everett Coyle Ronald Reagan 01982-04-01 April 1, 1982 01996-05-13 May 13, 1996 Incumbent –
Edward J. Garcia Ronald Reagan 01984-03-14 March 14, 1984 01996-11-24 November 24, 1996 Incumbent –
William B. Shubb George H. W. Bush 01990-10-01 October 1, 1990 02004-11-01 November 1, 2004 Incumbent –
Oliver Winston Wanger George H. W. Bush 01991-03-25 March 25, 1991 02006-05-31 May 31, 2006 Incumbent –
Frank C. Damrell Jr. Bill Clinton 01997-11-12 November 12, 1997 02008-12-31 December 31, 2008 Incumbent –

[edit] Former Judges

Judge Appointed by Began active
service		 Ended active
service		 Ended senior
status		 End reason
Sherrill Halbert Dwight D. Eisenhower 01954-08-26 August 26, 1954 01969-09-30 September 30, 1969 01991-05-31 May 31, 1991 death
David F. Levi George H. W. Bush 01990-10-01 October 1, 1990 02007-06-30 June 30, 2007 – resignation
Thomas Jamison MacBride John F. Kennedy 01961-09-22 September 22, 1961 01979-03-25 March 25, 1979 02000-01-06 January 6, 2000 death
Edward Dean Price Jimmy Carter 01979-12-20 December 20, 1979 01989-12-31 December 31, 1989 01997-11-03 November 3, 1997 death
Raul Anthony Ramirez Jimmy Carter 01980-05-23 May 23, 1980 01989-12-31 December 31, 1989 – resignation
Milton Lewis Schwartz Jimmy Carter 01979-11-27 November 27, 1979 01990-01-20 January 20, 1990 02005-10-03 October 3, 2005 death
Philip Charles Wilkins Richard Nixon 01969-12-18 December 18, 1969 01983-01-27 January 27, 1983 01998-07-08 July 8, 1998 death

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California (January 5, 2009). "Acting United States Attorney Lawrence G. Brown". U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae/us_attorney/index.html. 
    U.S. Department of Justice (January 5, 2009). "Lawrence Brown sworn in as Acting United States Attorney for Eastern District of California". U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/cae/press_releases/docs/2009/01-05-09BrownActngUSApressrelease.pdf. 
    U.S. Senate (March 31, 2003). "Presidential Nomination PN381-108 McGregor William Scott". THOMAS. http://thomas.loc.gov/home/nomis.html. 
  2. ^ a b c U.S. District Courts of California, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.
  3. ^ a b c Willoughby Rodman, History of the Bench and Bar of Southern California (1909), p. 46.

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