United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
(N.D. Ga.)
Location	Richard B. Russell Federal Building (Atlanta) More locations Gainesville Newnan Rome
Appeals to	Eleventh Circuit
Established	August 11, 1848
Judges	11
Chief Judge	Timothy Batten
Officers of the court
U.S. Attorney	Ryan K. Buchanan
U.S. Marshal	Thomas E. Brown
gand.uscourts.gov

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (in case citations, N.D. Ga.) is a United States district court which serves the residents of forty-six counties. These are divided up into four divisions.

Appeals from cases brought in the Northern District of Georgia are to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

History

The United States District Court for the District of Georgia was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789.^[1] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on August 11, 1848, by 9 Stat. 280.^[1][2][3] The Middle District was formed from portions of those two Districts on May 28, 1926, by 44 Stat. 670.^[1]

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction and venue are enumerated in 28 U.S.C. § 90.

The Atlanta division includes: Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, and Rockdale counties.

The Gainesville division serves: Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Jackson, Lumpkin, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, and White counties.

The Newnan division hears cases for: Carroll, Coweta, Fayette, Haralson, Heard, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, and Troup counties.

The Rome division serves: Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield counties.

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.

As of May 2, 2022^[update], the United States attorney is Ryan K. Buchanan.^[4]

Current judges

As of December 28, 2022^[update]:

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service			Appointed by
					Active	Chief	Senior
37	Chief Judge	Timothy Batten	Atlanta Newnan	1960	2006–present	2021–present	—	G.W. Bush
39	District Judge	Steve C. Jones	Atlanta	1957	2011–present	—	—	Obama
40	District Judge	Leigh Martin May	Atlanta	1971	2014–present	—	—	Obama
41	District Judge	Mark Howard Cohen	Atlanta	1955	2014–present	—	—	Obama
42	District Judge	Eleanor L. Ross	Atlanta	1967	2014–present	—	—	Obama
43	District Judge	Michael Lawrence Brown	Atlanta	1968	2018–present	—	—	Trump
44	District Judge	William M. Ray II	Atlanta	1963	2018–present	—	—	Trump
45	District Judge	J. P. Boulee	Atlanta	1971	2019–present	—	—	Trump
46	District Judge	Steven D. Grimberg	Atlanta	1974	2019–present	—	—	Trump
47	District Judge	Victoria Calvert	Atlanta	1981	2022–present	—	—	Biden
48	District Judge	Sarah Geraghty	Atlanta	1974	2022–present	—	—	Biden
23	Senior Judge	Orinda Dale Evans	inactive	1943	1979–2008	1999–2006	2008–present	Carter
29	Senior Judge	Clarence Cooper	inactive[5]	1942	1994–2009	—	2009–present	Clinton
31	Senior Judge	Willis B. Hunt Jr.	inactive	1932	1995–2005	—	2005–present	Clinton
32	Senior Judge	Thomas W. Thrash Jr.	Atlanta	1951	1997–2021	2014–2021	2021–present	Clinton
33	Senior Judge	Richard W. Story	Atlanta Gainesville	1953	1998–2018	—	2018–present	Clinton
34	Senior Judge	Charles A. Pannell Jr.	Atlanta	1946	1999–2013	—	2013–present	Clinton
38	Senior Judge	Amy Totenberg	Atlanta	1950	2011–2021	—	2021–present	Obama

Vacancies and pending nominations

Seat	Prior judge's duty station	Seat last held by	Vacancy reason	Date of vacancy	Nominee	Date of nomination
6	Atlanta	Steve C. Jones	Senior status	January 1, 2025[6]	–	–

Former judges

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#	Judge	State	Born–died	Active service	Chief Judge	Senior status	Appointed by	Reason for termination
1	John Cochran Nicoll	GA	1793–1863	1848–1861[Note 1][Note 2]	—	—	Van Buren/Operation of law	resignation
2	John Erskine	GA	1813–1895	1865–1882[Note 3][Note 2]	—	—	A. Johnson	seat abolished
3	Henry Kent McCay	GA	1820–1886	1882–1886	—	—	Arthur	death
4	William Truslow Newman	GA	1843–1920	1886–1920[Note 4]	—	—	Cleveland	death
5	Samuel Hale Sibley	GA	1873–1958	1919–1931	—	—	Wilson	elevation to 5th Cir.
6	Emory Marvin Underwood	GA	1877–1960	1931–1948	—	1948–1960	Hoover	death
7	Robert Lee Russell	GA	1900–1955	1940–1949	1949	—	F. Roosevelt	elevation to 5th Cir.
8	Maurice Neil Andrews	GA	1894–1967	1949–1950[Note 5]	1949–1950	—	Truman	resignation
9	Frank Arthur Hooper	GA	1895–1985	1949–1967[Note 6]	1950–1965	1967–1985	Truman	death
10	William Boyd Sloan	GA	1895–1970	1951–1965	—	1965–1970	Truman	death
11	Lewis Render Morgan	GA	1913–2001	1961–1968	1965–1968	—	Kennedy	elevation to 5th Cir.
12	Sidney Oslin Smith Jr.	GA	1923–2012	1965–1974	1968–1974	—	L. Johnson	resignation
13	Newell Edenfield	GA	1911–1981	1967–1981	1974–1976	1981	L. Johnson	death
14	Albert John Henderson	GA	1920–1999	1968–1979	1976–1979	—	L. Johnson	elevation to 5th Cir.
15	Charles Allen Moye Jr.	GA	1918–2010	1970–1988	1979–1987	1988–2010	Nixon	death