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U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Oklahoma: Succession Charts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma
June 16, 1906 34 Stat. 267	September 14, 1922 42 Stat. 837	June 22, 1936 49 Stat. 1804²	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80³
Campbell, Ralph E. 1907-1918	Kennamer, Franklin E.¹ 1924-1925	Murrah, Alfred P. 1937-1940	Daugherty, Frederick A. 1961-1982
Williams, Robert L. 1919-1937		Broaddus, Bower S. 1940-1949	Russell, David L.⁴ 1981-1990
Rice, Eugene 1937-1963		Wallace, William R. 1950-1960
Langley, Orville E. 1965-1973		Bohanon, Luther L. 1961-1974
Morris, Joseph W. 1974-1978		Cook, H. Dale 1974-1992
Seay, Frank H. 1979-2003		Burrage, Billy M. 1994-2001
White, Ronald A. 2003-		Payne, James H. 2001-2017
		Heil, John F. III 2020-
1. The act of February 16, 1925, 43 Stat. 945, transferred this judgeship to the Northern District of Oklahoma. 2. The act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1804, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. 3. The act of May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 80, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. 4. The act of December 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5089, assigned this judgeship to the Western District of Oklahoma exclusively.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
June 16, 1906 34 Stat. 267	June 22, 1936 49 Stat. 1804¹	May 24, 1940 54 Stat. 219	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80²	September 2, 1957 (effective March 26, 1965) 71 Stat. 586⁴	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Cotteral, John H. 1907-1928	Murrah, Alfred P. 1937-1940	Chandler, Stephen S., Jr. 1943-1975	Daugherty, Frederick A. 1961-1982	Eubanks, Luther B. 1965-1986	West, Lee R. 1979-1994	Alley, Wayne E. 1985-1999	Cauthron, Robin J. 1991-2015
Vaught, Edgar S. 1928-1956	Broaddus, Bower S. 1940-1949	Thompson, Ralph G. 1975-1999	Russell, David L. 1981-2013	Phillips, Layn R. 1987-1991	Miles-LaGrange, Vicki 1994-2018	Friot, Stephen P. 2001-2014	Goodwin, Charles B. 2018-
Rizley, Ross³ 1956-1969	Wallace, William R. 1950-1960	Heaton, Joe L. 2001-2019	Wyrick, Patrick R. 2019-	Leonard, Timothy D. 1992-2006	Dishman, Jodi W. 2019-	Palk, Scott L. 2017-
	Bohanon, Luther L. 1961-1974	Jones, Bernard M. 2019-		DeGiusti, Timothy D. 2007-
	Cook, H. Dale 1974-1992
	Burrage, Billy M. 1994-2001
	Payne, James H. 2001-2017
	Heil, John F. III 2020-
1. The act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1804, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. 2. The act of May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 80, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. 3. On March 26, 1965, the president certified Ross Rizley involuntarily as disabled in accordance with the act of September 2, 1957, 71 Stat. 586, which entitled the president to appoint an additional judge for the court and provided that no successor to the judge certified as disabled be appointed. 4. The act of September 2, 1957, 71 Stat. 586, was made applicable to the Western District of Oklahoma on March 26, 1965, when the president certified Judge Rizley as disabled. Luther Eubanks was appointed to the additional judgeship authorized by the statute.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
February 16, 1925 43 Stat. 945¹	June 22, 1936 49 Stat. 1804²	May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80³	October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629	December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089
Kennamer, Franklin E. 1925-1940	Murrah, Alfred P. 1937-1940	Daugherty, Frederick A. 1961-1982	Brett, Thomas R. 1979-1996	Kern, Terence C. 1994-2010
Savage, Royce H. 1940-1961	Broaddus, Bower S. 1940-1949	Russell, David L.⁴ 1981-1990	Eagan, Claire 2001-2022	Dowdell, John E. 2012-2021
Barrow, Allen E. 1962-1979	Wallace, William R. 1950-1960		Hill, Sara E. 2024-	Russell, John D. 2024-
Ellison, James O. 1979-1994	Bohanon, Luther L. 1961-1974
Holmes, Sven E. 1994-2005	Cook, H. Dale 1974-1992
Frizzell, Gregory K. 2007-	Burrage, Billy M. 1994-2001
	Payne, James H. 2001-2017
	Heil, John F. III 2020-
1. The act of February 16, 1925, 43 Stat. 945, transferred this judgeship from the Eastern District of Oklahoma. 2. The act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1804, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. 3. The act of May 19, 1961, 75 Stat. 80, authorized one judgeship to serve the Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of Oklahoma. 4. The act of December 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5089, assigned this judgeship to the Western District of Oklahoma exclusively.

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