United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi

United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (N.D. Miss.)
Appeals to	Fifth Circuit
Established	June 18, 1838
Judges assigned	3
Chief judge	Sharion Aycock
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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (in case citations, N.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Aberdeen, Ackerman, Clarksdale, Cleveland, Corinth, Greenville, and Oxford.

Appeals from cases brought in the Northern District of Mississippi 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 Northern District of Mississippi represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is Felicia C. Adams.

Jurisdiction

The northern district comprises three divisions.

1. The Aberdeen Division comprises the counties of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, Tishomingo, Webster and Winston.
   The court for the Aberdeen Division are held at Aberdeen, Ackerman and Corinth.
2. The Oxford Division comprises the counties of Benton, Calhoun, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union and Yalobusha.
   The court for the Oxford Division are held at Oxford.
3. The Greenville Division comprises the counties of Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Humphreys, Leflore, Montgomery, Sunflower and Washington.
   The Court for the Greenville Division are held at Clarksdale, Cleveland and Greenville.

Current judges

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service			Appointed by
					Active	Chief	Senior
15	Chief Judge	Sharion Aycock	Aberdeen	1955	2007–present	2014-present	—	G.W. Bush
14	District Judge	Michael P. Mills	Oxford	1956	2001–present	2007-2014	—	G.W. Bush
16	District Judge	Debra M. Brown	Greenville	1963	2013–present	—	—	Obama
11	Senior Judge	Neal Brooks Biggers Jr.	Oxford	1935	1984–2000	1998–2000	2000–present	Reagan
12	Senior Judge	Glen H. Davidson	Aberdeen	1941	1985–2007	2000–2007	2007–present	Reagan

Former judges

#	Judge	State	Born/Died	Active service	Chief Judge	Senior status	Appointed by	Reason for termination
1	George Adams	MS	1784–1844	1838	—	—	Jackson	resignation
2	Samuel J. Gholson	MS	1808–1883	1839–1861	—	—	Van Buren	resignation
3	Robert Andrews Hill	MS	1811–1900	1866–1891	—	—	A. Johnson	retirement
4	Henry Clay Niles	MS	1850–1918	1891–1918	—	—	B. Harrison	death
5	Edwin R. Holmes	MS	1878–1961	1918–1929	—	—	Wilson	reassignment
6	Elijah Allen Cox	MS	1887–1974	1929–1957	—	1957–1974	Coolidge	death
7	Claude Feemster Clayton	MS	1909–1969	1958–1967	1966–1967	—	Eisenhower	reappointment
8	William Colbert Keady	MS	1913–1989	1968–1983	1968–1982	1983–1989	L. Johnson	death
9	Orma Rinehart Smith	MS	1904–1982	1968–1978	—	1978–1982	L. Johnson	death
10	Lyonel Thomas Senter Jr.	MS	1933–2011	1979–1998	1982–1998	1998–2011	Carter	retirement
13	W. Allen Pepper Jr.	MS	1941–2011	1999–2011	—	—	Clinton	death

Succession of seats

Seat 1
Seat reassigned from District of Mississippi on June 18, 1838 by 5 Stat. 247 (concurrent with Southern District)
Adams	1838–1838
Gholson	1839–1861
Hill	1866–1891
Niles	1892–1918
Holmes	1918–1929
Seat reassigned solely to Southern District on March 1, 1929 by 45 Stat. 1422

Seat 2
Seat established on March 1, 1929 by 45 Stat. 1422
Cox	1929–1957
Clayton	1958–1967
Smith	1968–1978
Senter, Jr.	1979–1998
Pepper, Jr.	1999–2012
Brown	2013–present

Seat 3
Seat established on March 18, 1966 by 80 Stat. 75
Keady	1968–1983
Biggers, Jr.	1984–2000
Mills	2001–present

Seat 4
Seat established on July 10, 1984 by 98 Stat. 333
Davidson	1985–2007
Aycock	2007–present

See also

• Courts of Mississippi
• List of United States federal courthouses in Mississippi

External links

• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi