United States District Court for the District of Columbia

United States District Court for the District of Columbia
(D.D.C.)
Location of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Location	E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse (Washington, D.C., U.S.)
Appeals to	District of Columbia Circuit
Established	March 3, 1863
Judges	15
Chief Judge	James Boasberg
Officers of the court
U.S. Attorney	Matthew M. Graves
U.S. Marshal	Lamont Ruffin (acting)
www.dcd.uscourts.gov

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.^[1]

Appeals from the District Court are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit.

The current United States Attorney for the District of Columbia is Matthew M. Graves, who was sworn into office on November 5, 2021.^[2]