The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (in case citations, E.D. La.) is a United States federal court based in New Orleans.

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

, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana is Duane A. Evans.

Jurisdiction

This district comprises the following parishes: Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, and Washington.

History

On March 26, 1804, Congress organized the Territory of Orleans and created the United States District Court for the District of Orleans—the only time Congress provided a territory with a district court equal in its authority and jurisdiction to those of the states. The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by , several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern and Western Districts on March 3, 1823, by .

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Chief judges

Succession of seats

List of U.S. Attorneys

The U.S. Attorney is the chief law-enforcement officer for the district.

  • John W. Smith (1821–1829)
  • John Slidell (1829–1833)
  • Henry Carlton (1833–1836)
  • P. K. Lawrence (1836–1837)
  • Thomas Slidell (1837–1838)
  • Benjamin F. Linton (1838–1841)
  • Balie Peyton (1841–1845)
  • Solomon W. Downs (1845–1846)
  • Thomas I. Durant (1846–1850)
  • Logan Hunton (1850–1853)
  • E. Warren Moise (1853–1855)
  • Thomas S. McCay (1855–1856)
  • Franklin H. Clack (1856–1857)
  • Thomas J. Semmes (1857–1859)
  • Henry C. Miller (1859–1863)
  • Rufus Waples (1863)
  • James R. Beckwith (1870)
  • Albert H. Leonard (1878–1885)
  • Charles Parlange (1885–1889)
  • William Grant (1889–1892)
  • Ferdinand B. Earhart (1892–1896)
  • J. Ward Gurley Jr. (1896–1900)
  • William W. Howe (1900–1907)
  • Rufus E. Foster (1907–1909)
  • Carlton R. Beattie (1909–1913)
  • Walter Guion (1913–1917)
  • Joseph W. Montgomery (1917–1919)
  • Henry Mooney (1919–1921)
  • Louis H. Burns (1921–1925)
  • Wayne G. Borah (1925–1928)
  • Edmond E. Talbot (1928–1933)
  • William H. Norman (1933)
  • Rene A. Viosca (1933–1934)
  • Warren Doyle (1934–1937)
  • Herbert W. Christenberry (1937–1941)
  • Robert Winestein (1941–1947)
  • J. Skelly Wright (1948–1949)
  • John M. McKay (1949–1950)
  • George R. Blue (1950–1953)
  • M. Hepburn Many (1953–1957)
  • Kathleen Ruddell (1957–1961)
  • Louis C. LaCour (1967–1969)
  • Gerald J. Gallinghouse (1969–1978)
  • John P. Volz (1978–1991)
  • Harry A. Rosenberg (1991–93)
  • Robert J. Boitmann (1993)
  • Eddie J. Jordan Jr. (1994–2001)
  • Jim Letten (2001–2012)
  • Dana Boente (2012–2013)
  • Kenneth Polite (2013–2017)
  • Duane A. Evans (2017–2018)
  • Peter G. Strasser (2018–2021)
  • Duane A. Evans (2021–present)

See also

  • Courts of Louisiana
  • List of current United States district judges
  • List of United States federal courthouses in Louisiana
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
  • United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

References

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana