United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
(E.D. Tex.)
Location	William M. Steger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (Tyler) More locations Jack Brooks Federal Building (Beaumont) Lufkin Sam B. Hall Jr. Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (Marshall) Paul Brown Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse (Sherman) Plano United States Post Office and Courthouse (Texarkana)
Appeals to	Fifth Circuit
Established	February 21, 1857
Judges	8
Chief Judge	J. Rodney Gilstrap
Officers of the court
U.S. Attorney	Damien Diggs
U.S. Marshal	John M. Garrison
www.txed.uscourts.gov

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in case citations, E.D. Tex.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

The District was established on February 21, 1857, with the division of the state into an Eastern and Western District.^[1]