| December 29, 1845 9 Stat. 1 |
Congress organized Texas as one judicial district and authorized one judgeship for the district court. The district court in Texas, not being assigned to a judicial circuit, was granted the same jurisdiction as U.S. circuit courts, except in appeals and writs of error, which were the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. |
| February 21, 1857 11 Stat. 164 |
Texas divided into two judicial districts, the Eastern and the Western, with one judgeship authorized for the court in each district. |
| July 15, 1862 12 Stat. 576 |
The act repealed the circuit court jurisdiction of the district courts in Texas and established a U.S. circuit court for the district, which was assigned to Sixth Circuit. |
| July 23, 1866 14 Stat. 209 |
Texas assigned to the Fifth Circuit |
| February 24, 1879 20 Stat. 318 |
Northern District established and one judgeship authorized for the district court. |
| January 6, 1883 22 Stat. 400 |
Congress reassigned a portion of the jurisdiction held over the Indian Territory by the Western District of Arkansas to the Northern District of Texas (reassigning another portion to the District of Kansas). Congress reassigned the portion held by the Northern District of Texas to the Eastern District of Texas on March 1, 1889 (25 Stat. 786). Congress repealed the jurisdiction of district courts in Arkansas, Kansas, and Texas over the Indian Territory effective September 1, 1896 (28 Stat. 697). |
| February 9, 1898 30 Stat. 240 |
Temporary judgeship authorized for the Northern District; statute provided that any vacancy in the existing judgeship would not be filled. |
| March 11, 1902 32 Stat. 64 |
Southern District established and one judgeship authorized for the district court. |
| February 26, 1917 39 Stat. 938 |
One additional judgeship authorized for the Western District. |
| February 26, 1919 40 Stat. 1183 |
One additional judgeship authorized for the Northern District. |
| September 14, 1922 42 Stat. 837 |
One temporary judgeship authorized for the Northern District. |
| August 19, 1935 49 Stat. 659 |
Temporary judgeship authorized in 1922 for the Northern District was made permanent. |
| May 31, 1938 52 Stat. 584 |
One additional judgeship authorized for the Southern District. |
| August 3, 1949 63 Stat. 493 |
One permanent and one temporary judgeship authorized for the Southern District. |
| February 10, 1954 68 Stat. 8 |
One additional judgeship authorized for the Eastern District. Temporary judgeship authorized for the Southern District in 1949 made permanent. |
| May 19, 1961 75 Stat. 80 |
Two additional judgeships authorized for the Northern District, one for the Southern District, and one for the Western District. |
| March 18, 1966 80 Stat. 75 |
Two additional judgeships authorized for the Southern District and one for the Western District. |
| June 2, 1970 84 Stat. 294 |
One additional judgeship authorized for each of the four districts. |
| October 20, 1978 92 Stat. 1629 |
Five additional judgeships authorized for the Southern District, three for the Northern District, one for the Eastern District, and one for the Western District. |
| July 10, 1984 98 Stat. 333 |
One additional judgeship authorized for the Northern District, two for the Eastern District, and one for the Western District. |
| December 1, 1990 104 Stat. 5089 |
Two additional judgeships authorized for the Northern District, one for the Eastern District, five for the Southern District, and three for the Western District. |
| December 21, 2000 114 Stat. 2762 |
One additional judgeship authorized for the Southern District and one for the Western District. |
| November 2, 2002 116 Stat. 1758 |
Two additional judgeships authorized for the Western District and one temporary judgeship authorized for the Eastern District. (Judgeship for the Eastern District extended by 127 Stat. 418, 128 Stat. 203, 128 Stat. 2352, 129 Stat. 2443, 131 Stat. 347, 132 Stat. 556, 133 Stat. 159, 133 Stat. 2454, 134 Stat. 1401, 136 Stat. 262, 136 Stat 4672, and 138 Stat. 542.) |