United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
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The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (in case citations, C.D. Ill.) serves the residents of forty-six counties, which are divided into four divisions. The counties are: Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Kankakee, Knox, Livingston, Logan, McDonough, McLean, Macoupin, Macon, Marshall, Mason, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Peoria, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, and Woodford counties.
The courthouses for the Central District's four divisions are in Peoria, Rock Island, Springfield, and Urbana. In 2018, all court operations for the Rock Island District were moved to the federal courthouse in Davenport, Iowa, due to uninhabitable conditions at the Rock Island courthouse.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Appeals are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
Template:As of, the acting United States attorney is Gregory M. Gilmore.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
HistoryEdit
The United States District Court for the District of Illinois was established by a statute passed by the United States Congress on March 3, 1819, 3 Stat. 502.<ref name=S393>Asbury Dickens, A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America (1852), p. 393.</ref><ref name=fjcil>U.S. District Courts of Illinois, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.</ref> The act established a single office for a judge to preside over the court. Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, and appeals from the court were taken directly to the United States Supreme Court. In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, Template:USStat.<ref name=fjcil/>
On February 13, 1855, by Template:USStat, the District of Illinois was subdivided into Northern and the Southern Districts.<ref name=fjcil/> An Eastern District was created on March 3, 1905 by Template:USStat,<ref name=fjcil/> 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 the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois District, Template:USStat.<ref name=fjcil/> The newly created Central District was formed primarily from parts of the Southern District, and returned some counties to the Northern District. Some judges from both the Eastern and Southern Districts were transferred to the Central District by operation of law.
Current judgesEdit
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Former judgesEdit
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Chief judgesEdit
Succession of seatsEdit
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U.S. AttorneysEdit
- Gerald D. Fines 1977–86<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- J. William Roberts 1986–93
- Byron G. Cudmore 1993
- Frances C. Hulin 1993–2002
- Jan Paul Miller 2002–2005
- Rodger A. Heaton 2005–2009<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Jeffrey B. Lang 2009–2010
- James A. Lewis 2010–2016
- John C. Milhiser 2018–2021
- Gregory K. Harris 2021–2025
See alsoEdit
- Courts of Illinois
- List of current United States district judges
- List of United States federal courthouses in Illinois
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- General Services Administration pages about buildings:
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