United States District Court for the District of Connecticut

The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (in case citation

Case citation

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s, D. Conn.) is the Federal district court

United States district court

The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...

whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

. The court has offices in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. Appeals from the court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals...

. It was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789

Judiciary Act of 1789

The United States Judiciary Act of 1789 was a landmark statute adopted on September 24, 1789 in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary...

, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. The Court initially had a single judge, and remained so composed until March 3, 1927, when a second judge was added by 1927 44 Stat. 1348. Six additional judgeships were created between 1961 and 1990 to bring about the current total of eight judges. Court offices at Hartford are located in the William R. Cotter Federal Building

William R. Cotter Federal Building

The William R. Cotter Federal Building is a historic post office, courthouse, and federal office building located at Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut. It was the courthouse for United States District Court for the District of Connecticut until 1963....

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Cases decided by the District of Connecticut are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals...

(except for patent

Patent

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claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act

Tucker Act

Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....

, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

-Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

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The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is David Fein.

The current United States Marshal for the District of Connecticut is John Francis Bardelli. On Wednesday, June 9, 2010, President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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nominated Joseph Patrick Faughnan, Sr. to the Senate to succeed Marshal Bardelli as U.S. Marshal for the District of Connecticut.

Current judges

A vacancy exists due to Christopher F. Droney

Christopher F. Droney

Christopher Fitzgerald Droney is a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He formally served as a District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut....

's elevation to become a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals...

. No replacement nomination is pending

Former judges

Judge	Appointed by	Began active service	Ended active service	Ended senior status	End reason
Robert P. Anderson Robert P. Anderson Robert Palmer Anderson was a United States federal judge.Born in Noank, Connecticut, Anderson received a B.A. from Yale College in 1927 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1929. He then worked until 1953 as a lawyer in private practice in New London, Connecticut, while holding a number of public...	Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...			–	reappointment
Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld Mosher Joseph Blumenfeld was a United States federal judge who served as chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut....	John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....				death
William Bristol William Bristol William Bristol was a Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and United States federal judge.Born in Hamden, Connecticut, Bristol graduated from Yale University in 1798 and read law to enter the bar in 1800. He entered private practice in New Haven, Connecticut in 1800, and became U.S. Attorney for the...	John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

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| Warren Booth Burrows

Warren Booth Burrows

Warren Booth Burrows was a United States federal judge.Burrows was born in Poquonock Bridge, Connecticut. He received an LL.B. from University of Michigan Law School in 1904. He was in private practice of law in New London, Connecticut from 1905 to 1906. He was an Assistant state's attorney of New...

||Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

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| José A. Cabranes

José A. Cabranes

José Alberto Cabranes , is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Formerly a practicing lawyer, government official, and law teacher, he was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental United States .-Background:Cabranes was born in...

||Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

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| T. Emmet Clarie

T. Emmet Clarie

T. Emmet Clarie was a Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.-Biography:...

||John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

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| T. F. Gilroy Daly

T. F. Gilroy Daly

T. F. Gilroy Daly was a lawyer and United States District Judge in Connecticut who, as a trial lawyer, was noted for winning the freedom of a man wrongly convicted of murder in 1976. He served as District Judge from 1977-1996....

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Jimmy Carter

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| Christopher F. Droney

Christopher F. Droney

||Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

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| Pierpont Edwards

Pierpont Edwards

Pierpont Edwards was a delegate to the American Continental Congress, and later a United States federal judge. He has been described as "a brilliant but erratic member of the Connecticut bar, tolerant in religious matters and bitterly hated by stern Calvinists, a man whose personal morality...

||Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

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| Carroll C. Hincks

Carroll C. Hincks

Carroll Clark Hincks was a federal judge in the United States.Hincks was born in Andover, Massachusetts. He attended Yale College and Yale Law School. From 1915 to 1931, he practiced as a lawyer in Connecticut , except for two years as a U.S...

||Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

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| Charles A. Ingersoll

Charles A. Ingersoll

Charles Anthony Ingersoll was a United States federal judge.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Ingersoll read law to be admitted to the bar, and received an A.M. from Yale University in 1827. He was in private practice in New Haven, Connecticut, and was clerk of the court for the U.S. District Court...

||Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

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| Andrew T. Judson

Andrew T. Judson

Andrew Thompson Judson was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut and later a United States federal judge....

||Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

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| Richard Law

Richard Law (judge)

Richard Law was an American lawyer, jurist and statesman from New London, Connecticut.Born in Milford, Connecticut, Law graduated from Yale College in 1751 and read law to enter the bar in 1755. He was in private practice in Milford from 1755 to 1757, and in New London, Connecticut from 1757 to 1765...

||George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

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| Alan Harris Nevas

Alan Harris Nevas

Alan Harris Nevas was a Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He served on the court from 1985 to 2009, when he retired. Judge Nevas was nominated to the court by Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1985, to a new seat created by 98 Stat...

||Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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| Jon O. Newman

Jon O. Newman

Jon O. Newman is an United States federal judge. He has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1979.-Education and legal training:...

||Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

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| James Perry Platt

James Perry Platt

James Perry Platt was a United States federal judge.Born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, Platt received an A.B. from Yale College in 1873 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1875. He was in private practice in Meriden, Connecticut from 1875 to 1902. He was a Connecticut state representative from 1878...

||Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

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| Nathaniel Shipman

Nathaniel Shipman

Nathaniel Shipman was a longtime federal judge in the United States.A native of Connecticut, Shipman attended Yale Law School and Yale College before "reading law" for admission to the Connecticut bar. He practiced as a lawyer in New Haven, Connecticut and spent five years as executive secretary...

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| William Davis Shipman

William Davis Shipman

William Davis Shipman was a Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He served on the court from 1860 to 1873. Judge Shipman was nominated to the court by James Buchanan on March 2, 1860, to a seat vacated by Charles A...

||James Buchanan

James Buchanan

James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century....

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| John Joseph Smith||Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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| Edwin Stark Thomas

Edwin Stark Thomas

Edwin Stark Thomas was a Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Judge Thomas received an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1895. He was nominated to the court by Woodrow Wilson on October 16, 1913, to a seat vacated by James P...

||Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

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| William H. Timbers

William H. Timbers

William Homer Timbers was a longtime federal judge in the United States.Timbers graduated from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. He spent many years in private practice in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, including several years as a member of the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate & Timbers...

||Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

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| William Kneeland Townsend

William Kneeland Townsend

William Kneeland Townsend was a federal judge in the United States.A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Townsend attended both Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School. He worked for several years as a lawyer in private practice in New Haven, including as an...

||Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States . Harrison, a grandson of President William Henry Harrison, was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at age 21, eventually becoming a prominent politician there...

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| Robert Carmine Zampano

Robert Carmine Zampano

Robert Carmine Zampano was a Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He has served on the court from 1964 to 1994. Judge Zampano received a B.A. from Yale University in 1951 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School, in 1954. He was nominated by Lyndon B...

||Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

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