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Appeals to
  
Fourth Circuit

Judges assigned
  
10

Established
  
September 24, 1789

Chief Judge
  
Catherine C. Blake

United States District Court for the District of Maryland

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland (in case citations, D. Md.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Maryland.

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

Notable judges in this district include William Paca, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.

The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.

Organization of the court

Under 28 U.S.C. § 100, Maryland consists of a single federal judicial district with two statutory divisions. The Southern Division includes Calvert, Charles, Montgomery, Prince George's, and St. Mary's counties and sits in Greenbelt. The Northern Division includes Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester counties and sits in Baltimore, although the statute also provides for the court to sit in Cumberland and Denton.

U.S. Attorneys for the District of Maryland

  • Richard Potts (1789–1792)
  • Zebulon Hollingsworth (1792–1806)
  • John Stephen (1806–1810)
  • Thomas B. Dorsey (1810–1812)
  • Elias Glenn (1812–1824)
  • Nathaniel Williams (1824–1841)
  • Z. Collins Lee (1841–1845)
  • William L. Marshall (1845–1850)
  • Z. Collins Lee (1850–1853)
  • William M. Addison (1853–1862)
  • William Price (1862–1865)
  • William J. Jones (1865–1866)
  • William Price (1866–1867)
  • Andrew Sterett Ridgley (1867–1869)
  • Archibald Stirling, Jr. (1869–1886)
  • Thomas Gordon Hayes (1886–1890)
  • John T. Ensor (1890–1894)
  • William L. Marbury (1894–1898)
  • John C. Rose (1898–1910)
  • John P. Hill (1910–1915)
  • Samuel K. Dennis (1915–1920)
  • Robert R. Carman (1920–1922)
  • Amos W. W. Woodcock (1922–1931)
  • Simon E. Sobeloff (1931–1934)
  • Bernard J. Flynn (1934–1953)
  • George C. Doub (1953–1956)
  • Walter E. Black, Jr. (1956–1957)
  • Leon H. A. Pierson (1957–1961)
  • Joseph D. Tydings (1961–1963)
  • Robert H. Kernon (1963)
  • Thomas J. Kenney (1963–1967)
  • Stephen H. Sachs (1967–1970)
  • George Beall (1970–1975)
  • Jervis S. Finney (1975–1978)
  • Russell T. Baker (1978–1981)
  • Herbert Better* (1981)
  • J. Frederick Motz (1981–1985)
  • Catherine C. Blake* (1985–1986)
  • Breckinridge L. Willcox (1986–1991)
  • Richard D. Bennett (1991–1993)
  • Gary P. Jordan* (1993)
  • Lynne A. Battaglia (1993–2001)
  • Stephen Schenning* (2001)
  • Thomas M. DiBiagio (2001–2005)
  • Allen F. Loucks* (2005)
  • Rod J. Rosenstein (2005–present)

    • * designates interim U.S. Attorneys who served when there was no presidentially-appointed U.S. Attorney.

    References

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