The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama (in case citations, S.D. Ala.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties: Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas, Escambia, Hale, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, Perry, Washington, and Wilcox. It has jurisdiction over the city of Mobile.

The District was created by the United States Congress on March 10, 1824, by 4 Stat. 9, when the United States District Court for the District of Alabama was subdivided into a Northern and Southern District. Parts of these two districts were subsequently removed to form the Middle District on February 6, 1839, by 5 Stat. 315, with legislation specifying that the Middle District Court was to be held at Tuscaloosa, the Northern District Court at Huntsville, and the Southern District Court at Mobile. These Districts were again reorganized on August 7, 1848.

Appeals from cases brought in the Southern District of Alabama are to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh 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's Office for the Southern District of Alabama represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is Kenyen Ray Brown.

Table of judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
John Bruce	Ulysses S. Grant			–	assignment to another court
Richard Busteed	Abraham Lincoln			–	resignation
Charles Randolph Butler Jr.	Ronald Reagan			Incumbent	–
Emmett Ripley Cox	Ronald Reagan			–	reappointment
William Crawford	John Quincy Adams			–	death
Kristi DuBose	George W. Bush		Incumbent	–	–
Robert Tait Ervin	Woodrow Wilson				death
John Gayle	Zachary Taylor			–	death
Callie V. Granade	George W. Bush		Incumbent	–	–
William Brevard Hand	Richard Nixon				death
Alex T. Howard, Jr.	Ronald Reagan			Incumbent	–
William Giles Jones	James Buchanan			–	resignation
George Washington Lane	Abraham Lincoln			–	death
John McDuffie	Franklin D. Roosevelt			–	death
Thomas Virgil Pittman	Lyndon B. Johnson			Incumbent	–
William H. Steele	George W. Bush		Incumbent	–	–
Charles Tait	James Monroe			–	resignation
Daniel Holcombe Thomas	Harry S. Truman				death
Harry Theophilus Toulmin	Grover Cleveland			–	death
Richard W. Vollmer, Jr.	George H. W. Bush				death

See also

• Courts of Alabama

Notes

1. Asbury Dickens, A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America (1852), p. 390.
2. U.S. District Courts of Alabama, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.
3. Alfred Conkling, A Treatise on the Organization, Jurisdiction and Practice of the Courts of the United States (1864), p. 178.
4. Asbury Dickens, A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America (1852), p. 391.
5. Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 5, 1864, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 20, 1864, and received commission on January 20, 1864.
6. Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 23, 1860, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 30, 1860, and received commission on January 30, 1860.

External links

• United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama Official Website