United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit.
The District was established on February 23, 1847, with the division of the state into a Northern and Southern district.
The United States Attorney for the District is John Heekin. He was nominated as U.S. Attorney by President Donald J. Trump on May 6, 2025, and was appointed by Attorney General Pam Bondi as the interim U.S. Attorney on June 2, 2025. His nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 7, 2025, and he was commissioned by President Donald J. Trump the following day.
Organization of the court
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida is one of three federal judicial districts in Florida. Court for the District is held at Gainesville, Panama City, Pensacola, and Tallahassee. The court serves approximately 1.75 million people.Gainesville Division comprises the following counties: Alachua, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, and Levy.
Panama City Division comprises the following counties: Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, and Washington.
Pensacola Division comprises the following counties: Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton.
Tallahassee Division comprises the following counties: Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla.
Current judges
U.S. Attorneys
- George W. Call, Jr. 1850–53
- Chandler C. Yonge 1853–63
- Culver P. Chamberlin 1863–69
- Horatio Bisbee Jr. 1869–73
- J. B. C. Drew 1873–76
- John B. Stickney 1876–82
- Edward M. Cheney 1882–87
- Rhydon Mays Call 1887–89
- Joseph N. Stripling 1889–93
- Owen J. H. Summers 1893–94
- J. Emmett Wolfe 1894–98
- John Eagan 1898–1903
- William B. Sheppard 1903–07
- Emmett Wilson 1907–09
- Fred Cubberly 1909–13
- Edward C. Love 1913–15
- John L. Neeley 1915
- Phillip D. Beale 1915
- John L. Neeley 1915–21
- Fred Cubberly 1921–32
- George P. Wentworth 1932–33
- George E. Hoffmann 1933–53
- George H. Carswell 1953–58
- Wilfred C. Varn 1958–61
- Charles W. Eggart, Jr. 1961
- Clinton N. Ashmore 1961–69
- William Henry Stafford Jr. 1969–75
- Clinton N. Ashmore 1975–76
- Nicholas P. Geeker 1976–82
- K. Michael Moore 1982–83
- Thomas Dillard III 1983–87
- K. Michael Moore 1987–89
- Lyndia F. Padgett 1989–90
- Kenneth W. Sukhia 1990–93
- Gregory R. Miller 1993
- Patrick M. Patterson 1993–98
- Thomas F Kirwin 1998?–2002
- Gregory R. Miller 2002–2008
- Thomas F Kirwin 2008–2010
- Pamela Cothran Marsh 2010–2015
- Christopher Canova 2015–2019
- Larry Keefe 2019–2021
- Jason R. Coody 2021–2025
- John Heekin 2025-present