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Federal Judicial Circuits: District of Columbia Circuit
| February 9, 1893 27 Stat. 434 |
Congress estabished the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, neither making reference to a District of Columbia Circuit nor including "Circuit" in the name of the court. |
| March 19, 1928 276 U.S. 311 |
In Swift & Co. v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the District of Columbia was a judicial circuit within the meaning of the Transfer Act of 1922. |
| June 7, 1934 48 Stat. 926 |
Congress changed the name of the court to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. |
| July 5, 1937 50 Stat. 473 |
Congress provided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia with representation on the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now the Judicial Conference of the United States). In a series of acts between 1937 and 1948, Congress declared that the District of Columbia was to be considered a judicial circuit for the purposes of the individual acts. |
| February 11, 1938 52 Stat. 28 |
Congress termed the District of Columbia a judicial circuit for purposes of the assignment of retired justices of the Supreme Court to duties in the circuits. Following the act, the Supreme Court began to allot sitting justices as well as retired justices to the District of Columbia. |
| June 25, 1948 62 Stat. 870 |
Congress changed the name of the court to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and declared the District of Columbia to be one of the eleven federal judicial circuits. |