The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (in case citations, N.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Aberdeen, Greenville, and Oxford.

Appeals from cases brought in the Northern District of Mississippi are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth 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 for the Northern District of Mississippi represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. , the United States attorney is Scott F. Leary.

Jurisdiction

The northern district comprises three divisions. The Aberdeen Division comprises the counties of Alcorn, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Itawamba, Lee, Lowndes, Monroe, Oktibbeha, Prentiss, Tishomingo, Webster, and Winston.The court for the Aberdeen Division is held at Aberdeen, Ackerman, and Corinth. The Oxford Division comprises the counties of Benton, Calhoun, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Pontotoc, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tunica, Union, and Yalobusha.The court for the Oxford Division is held at Oxford, Pittsboro, and Pontotoc. The Greenville Division comprises the counties of Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Humphreys, Leflore, Montgomery, Sunflower, and Washington.The court for the Greenville Division is held at Clarksdale, Cleveland, and Greenville.

Current judges :

Former judges

Chief judges

Succession of seats

List of U.S. Attorneys The U.S. Attorney is the chief law enforcement officer for the Northern District of Mississippi.

Samuel F. Butterworth (1838–1841) Oscar F. Bledsoe (1841–1848) Andrew K. Blythe (1848–1850) Woodson T. Ligon (1850–1853) Nathaniel S. Price (1853–1854) John A. Orr (1854–1857) Flavius J. Lovejoy (1857) G. W. Wells (1870) Thomas Walton (1876–1878) Green C. Chandler (1878–1885) Charles B. Howry (1885–1889) Henry C. Niles (1889–1891) Mack A. Montgomery (1891–1893) Andrew F. Fox (1893–1896) Chapman L. Anderson (1896–1897) Mack A. Montgomery (1897–1905) William D. Frazee (1905–1912) Lester G. Fant (1912–1914) Wilson S. Hill (1914–1921) J. L. Roberson (1921) Samuel E. Oldham (1921–1925) John H. Cook (1925–1929) Lester G. Fant (1929–1937) George T. Mitchell (1937–1942) James O. Day (1942–1945) Chester I. Sumners (1945–1951) Noel H. Malone (1951–1954) Chester L. Sumners (1954) Thomas R. Ethridge (1954–1961) B. Euple Dozier (1961) Hosea M. Ray (1961–1981) Glen H. Davidson (1981–1985) Robert Q. Whitwell (1985–1991) Sam J. Beckett (1991–1998) Walter K. Locke (1998–2010) Peter A. O'Pry (2010–2014) Josiah M. Alden (2014–2021) J. Clay Joyner (2021–2025) Scott F. Leary (2025-present)

See also Courts of Mississippi List of current United States district judges List of United States federal courthouses in Mississippi

Footnotes

Further reading David M. Hargrove, Mississippi's Federal Courts: A History. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.

External links U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi