United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma is a federal court in the Tenth Circuit.
The District was established on June 16, 1906, and became operational on November 16, 1907, with Oklahoma achieving statehood.
The courts jurisdiction comprises the following counties: Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, Marshall, McCurtain, McIntosh, Murray, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Seminole, Sequoyah, and Wagoner.
The court is housed in the Ed Edmondson U.S. Courthouse in Muskogee.
The United States Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Oklahoma represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney for the district is Brian Kuester.History
Judge Frank Howell Seay, appointed to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, was the first Native American appointed to any U.S. district court.Current judges
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