Senate lost and was reappointed in 1949.Ĭongress added two judgeships, bringing the total to four.Ĭongress added a fifth judgeship. Burns was appointed as first United States District Judge in the district on April 22.įormer Governor James Allred resigned the bench to run for the U.S. It is the oldest federal civil building in Texas.
The federal courthouse in Galveston, still in use today, was completed. Three additional divisions have been created since the founding of the district: Corpus Christi, McAllen and Victoria. The district was created with four places of holding court: Brownsville, Galveston, Houston and Laredo. Since that time, the court has grown to nineteen district judgeships, six bankruptcy judgeships, sixteen magistrate judgeships, and over 200 deputy clerks. Burns, and a Clerk of Court, Christopher Dart. The Southern District of Texas started with one judge, Waller T. In 1902, when the Southern District was created by Act of Congress, Judge Bryant continued to serve in the Eastern District of Texas. Judge Amos Morrill served in the Eastern District of Texas from 1872 to 1884. When Texas was restored to the Union, Watrous and DuVal resumed their duties and served until 1870.
DuVal, of the Western District of Texas, left the state on the secession of Texas from the Union, the only two United States Judges not to resign their posts in states that seceded. On February 21, 1857, the state was divided into two districts, Eastern and Western, with Judge Watrous continuing in the Eastern district. Judge Watrous had been Attorney General of the Republic of Texas. Watrous, who was appointed on May 26, 1846, to hold court in Galveston, with jurisdiction over the whole state. The first federal judge in Texas was John C.
Information is available on Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrate Judges. Since its foundation, the Southern District of Texas has been served by forty-two District Judges and seven Clerks of Court. On March 4, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt signed "a bill to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts," creating the Southern District of Texas.
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