Official Records
The records of the U.S. District Courts for the District of Kentucky are included among Record Group 21 at the:
National Archives at Atlanta
5780 Jonesboro Road
Morrow, Georgia 30260
Email: atlanta.archives@nara.gov
A guide to the holdings of the regional archives is available at: https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/holdings
A published description of the records is also available in the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States, 1995 (http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/index.html ).
Bibliography
Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel. Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky, 1789-1816 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Wilson, Samuel M. History of the United States Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky . Lexington, Ky.: 1935.
A Century in Celebration: The United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, 1901-2001 . U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, 2001.