The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (in
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s, S.D. Ill.) is a
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covering approximately the southern third of the state of Illinois.
Appeals from the Southern District of Illinois are taken to the
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
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* Central District of Illinois
* Northern District of ...
(except for
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claims and claims against the U.S. government under the
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, which are appealed to the
Federal Circuit
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).
It has three courthouses, at
Benton,
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, and
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. At present, four judges are assigned to this district.
History
![ILSD_Benton_US_District_Court](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/ILSD_Benton_US_District_Court.jpg)
The
United States District Court for the District of Illinois
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was established by a statute passed by the
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on March 3, 1819, .
[Asbury Dickens, ''A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America'' (1852), p. 393.][U.S. District Courts of Illinois, Legislative history]
'' Federal Judicial Center''. The act established a single office for a judge to preside over the court. Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, so the district court exercised the jurisdiction of both a
district court and a
circuit court, with appeals and
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taken directly to the
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. In 1837, Congress placed the District of Illinois within the newly created
Seventh Circuit
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, and the district court resumed its normal jurisdiction, .
[
The Southern District itself was created by a statute passed on February 13, 1855, , which subdivided the District of Illinois into the Northern and the Southern Districts.][ The boundaries of the District and the seats of the courts were set forth in the statute:
The district has since been re-organized several times. The was created on March 3, 1905 by ,][ by splitting counties out of the Northern and Southern Districts. It was later eliminated in a reorganization on October 2, 1978 which replaced it with a Central District, ,][ formed primarily from parts of the Southern District, and returning some counties to the Northern District.
]
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, and Williamson. The district was created in 1979. It has jurisdiction over the eastern suburbs of St. Louis
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and the city of Carbondale.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is Steven D. Weinhoeft.
Current judges
:
Former judges
Chief judges
Succession of seats
United States Attorneys for the Southern District of Illinois
The United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Illinois is the federal prosecuting office for cases arising in 38 counties in Southern Illinois. The Office is headquartered in Fairview Heights and also has branch offices in Benton and East St. Louis.
* James R. Burgess* (April 1979 – January 1982)
* Frederick J. Hess* (January 1982 – June 1993)
* Clifford J. Proud (June 1993 – November 1993)
* W. Charles Grace* (December 20, 1993 – January 30, 2002)
* Robert J. Cleary (January 30, 2002 – May 29, 2002)
* Laura J. Jones (May 30, 2002 – August 6, 2002)
* Miriam F. Miquelon* (August 7, 2002 – September 1, 2003)
* Richard E. Byrne (September 2, 2003 – November 15, 2003)
* Ronald J. Tenpas* (November 16, 2003 – November 20, 2005)
* Edward E. McNally (November 21, 2005 – March 11, 2006)
* Randy G. Massey (March 12, 2006 – November. 4, 2007)
* Courtney Cox (November 5, 2007 – August 26, 2010)
* Stephen R. Wigginton* (August 27, 2010 – December 11, 2015)
* James L. Porter (December 12, 2015 – July 7, 2016)
* Donald S. Boyce (July 8, 2016 – July 22, 2018)
* Steven D. Weinhoeft (July 23, 2018 – June 21, 2022)
* Rachelle Aud Crowe* (June 21, 2022 – present)
(*) Presidential appointment
See also
* Courts of Illinois Courts of Illinois include:
State courts of Illinois
*Supreme Court of Illinois
**Illinois Appellate Court (5 districts)
***Illinois Circuit Courts (24 judicial circuits)
Federal courts located in Illinois
*United States Court of Appeals for t ...
* List of current United States district judges
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* List of United States federal courthouses in Illinois
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References
External links
United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois Official Website
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Official Website
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Carbondale, Illinois
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