| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (E.D. Okla.) |
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| Appeals to | Tenth Circuit |
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| Established | June 16, 1906 |
| Judges assigned | 2 |
| Chief judge | James H. Payne |
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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma (in case citations, E.D. Okla. or E.D.Ok.) is the Federal district court whose 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. It is based in Muskogee.
Appeals from the Eastern District of Oklahoma are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The court is housed in the Ed Edmondson U.S. Courthouse in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
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Judge Frank Howell Seay, appointed to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, was the first Native American (Seminole) appointed to any U.S. district court.
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 Mark F. Green, who succeeded Sheldon J. Sperling.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2010, a news release from the White House Press Office stated that President Barack Obama had nominated Mark F. Green to be the new United States Attorney. He is the sole practitioner at Mark Green, Attorney, which he opened in 1991. He has also served as an Alternate Judge to the City of Muskogee since 2006 and as a Public Defender in this court since 1990. He has also worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. Mr. Green graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1975 and from the College of Law there in 1978. His nomination must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| James H. Payne | George W. Bush | October 24, 2001 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Ronald A. White | George W. Bush | October 2, 2003 | Incumbent | – | – |
| Frank Howell Seay | Jimmy Carter | November 2, 1979 | September 25, 2003 | Incumbent | – |
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Luther Lee Bohanon | John F. Kennedy | August 30, 1961 | August 2, 1974 | July 18, 2003 | death |
| Bower Slack Broaddus | Franklin D. Roosevelt | October 1, 1940 | December 10, 1949 | – | death |
| Michael Burrage | Bill Clinton | June 9, 1994 | March 1, 2001 | – | resignation |
| Ralph E. Campbell | Theodore Roosevelt | November 11, 1907[1] | August 31, 1918 | – | resignation |
| H. Dale Cook | Gerald Ford | December 20, 1974 | January 1, 1992 | September 22, 2008 | death |
| Frederick Alvin Daugherty | John F. Kennedy | October 5, 1961[2] | January 12, 1982 | April 7, 2006 | death |
| Franklin Elmore Kennamer | Calvin Coolidge | February 19, 1924 | February 16, 1925 | – | assignment to another court |
| Orville Edwin Langley | Lyndon B. Johnson | January 27, 1965 | September 12, 1973 | – | death |
| Joseph Wilson Morris | Richard Nixon | April 12, 1974 | July 31, 1978 | – | resignation |
| Alfred P. Murrah | Franklin D. Roosevelt | March 3, 1937 | September 9, 1940 | – | reappointment |
| Eugene Rice | Franklin D. Roosevelt | August 11, 1937 | December 1, 1963 | November 24, 1967 | death |
| David Lynn Russell | Ronald Reagan | December 17, 1981 | December 1, 1990 | – | assignment to another court |
| William Robert Wallace | Harry S. Truman | June 8, 1950 | June 24, 1960 | – | death |
| Robert L. Williams | Woodrow Wilson | January 7, 1919 | April 21, 1937 | – | reappointment |
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