United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (E.D. Wash.)
Appeals to	Ninth Circuit
Established	March 2, 1905
Judges assigned	4
Chief judge	Rosanna M. Peterson
Official site

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Courthouse in 1965

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (in case citations, E.D. Wash.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and Yakima.

As of the 2000 census, 1.3 million people resided in the Eastern District, representing 22% of the state's population. The district includes the cities of Richland, Spokane, and Yakima, amongst others. Courts at Yakima are located at the William O. Douglas Federal Building.

Cases from the Eastern District of Washington are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current U.S. Attorney for the district is Michael C. Ormsby. He was appointed in 2009.

Current judges

#	Title	Judge	Duty station	Born	Term of service			Appointed by
					Active	Chief	Senior
20	Chief Judge	Rosanna M. Peterson	Spokane	1951	2010–present	2011–present	—	Obama
21	District Judge	Thomas O. Rice	Spokane	1960	2012–present	—	—	Obama
22	District Judge	Stanley Allen Bastian	Yakima	1958	2014–present	—	—	Obama
23	District Judge	Salvador Mendoza, Jr.	Richland	1971	2014–present	—	—	Obama
13	Senior Judge	Justin Lowe Quackenbush	Spokane	1929	1980–1995	1989–1995	1995–present	Carter
15	Senior Judge	William Fremming Nielsen	Spokane	1934	1991–2003	1995–2000	2003–present	G.H.W. Bush
16	Senior Judge	Frederick L. Van Sickle	Spokane	1943	1991–2008	2000–2005	2008–present	G.H.W. Bush
17	Senior Judge	Robert H. Whaley	Spokane	1943	1995–2009	2005–2009	2009–present	Clinton
18	Senior Judge	Edward F. Shea	Richland	1942	1998–2012	—	2012–present	Clinton
19	Senior Judge	Lonny R. Suko	Yakima	1943	2003–2013	2009–2011	2013–present	G.W. Bush

Former judges

#	Judge	State	Born/Died	Active service	Chief Judge	Senior status	Appointed by	Reason for termination
1	Edward Whitson	WA	1852–1910	1905–1910	—	—	T. Roosevelt	death
2	Frank H. Rudkin	WA	1864–1931	1911–1923	—	—	Taft	reappointment
3	J. Stanley Webster	WA	1877–1962	1923–1939	—	1939–1962	Harding	death
4	Lloyd Llewellyn Black	WA	1889–1950	1940–1950	—	—	F. Roosevelt	death
5	Lewis B. Schwellenbach	WA	1894–1948	1940–1945	—	—	F. Roosevelt	resignation
6	Samuel Marion Driver	WA	1892–1958	1946–1958	1948–1958	—	Truman	death
7	William James Lindberg	WA	1904–1981	1951–1961	—	—	Truman	reassignment
8	Charles Lawrence Powell	WA	1902–1975	1959–1972	1959–1972	1972–1975	Eisenhower	death
9	William Nelson Goodwin	WA	1909–1975	1966–1975	1972–1973	—	L. Johnson	death
10	Marshall Allen Neill	WA	1914–1979	1972–1979	1973–1979	—	Nixon	death
11	Jack Edward Tanner	WA	1919–2006	1978	—	—	Carter	reassignment
12	Robert James McNichols	WA	1922–1992	1979–1991	1980–1989	1991–1992	Carter	death
14	Alan Angus McDonald	WA	1927–2007	1985–1996	—	1996–2007	Reagan	death

Succession of seats

Seat 1
Seat established on March 2, 1905 by 33 Stat. 824
Whitson	1905–1910
Rudkin	1911–1923
Webster	1924–1939
Schwellenbach	1940–1945
Driver	1946–1958
Powell	1959–1972
Neill	1972–1979
Quackenbush	1980–1995
Whaley	1995–2009
Rice	2012–present

Seat 2
Seat assigned on January 20, 1940 by 54 Stat. 16 (concurrent with Western District)
Black	1940–1950
Lindberg	1951–1961
Seat reassigned solely to Western District on May 19, 1961 by 75 Stat. 80

Seat 3
Seat established on May 19, 1961 by 75 Stat. 80 (concurrent with Western District)
Goodwin	1966–1975
Tanner	1978–1978
Seat reassigned solely to Western District on October 20, 1978 by 92 Stat. 1629

Seat 4
Seat established on October 20, 1978 by 92 Stat. 1629
McNichols	1979–1991
Nielsen	1991–2003
Suko	2003–2013
Mendoza, Jr.	2014–present

Seat 5
Seat established on July 10, 1984 by 98 Stat. 333
McDonald	1985–1996
Shea	1998–2012
Bastian	2014–present

Seat 6
Seat established on December 1, 1990 by 104 Stat. 5089
Van Sickle	1991–2008
Peterson	2010–present

See also

• Courts of Washington (U.S. state)
• List of United States federal courthouses in Washington

External links

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington Official Website