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In the U.S. federal judicial system, the United States is divided into 94 judicial districts. Each state has at least one judicial district, as do the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each judicial district contains a United States district court with a bankruptcy court under its authority. There is also a United States Attorney in each ...
The Fort Bend County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Richmond, Texas, United States. It was built in 1908 by Charles Henry Page, who also designed several other Texas courthouses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in 1980 and designated a Texas State Antiquities ...
T. Michael O'Connor. www .txs .uscourts .gov. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (in case citations, S.D. Tex.) is the federal district court with jurisdiction over the southeastern part of Texas. The court's headquarters is in Houston, Texas, and has six additional locations in the district.
Fort Bend County Courthouse: Richmond, Fort Bend County: 1908 built 1980 RTHL 1980 NRHP: Designed by C. H. Page in the Beaux-Arts style. Franklin County Courthouse: Mount Vernon, Franklin County: 1912 built 2006 NRHP 2009–14 restored: Designed by L. L. Thurman and Company in the Neoclassical style.
Fort Bend County was created from parts of Austin, Harris, and Brazoria Counties in 1838. Fort Bend developed a plantation economy based on cotton as the commodity crop. Planters had numerous African-American slaves as laborers. By the 1850s, Fort Bend was one of six majority-black counties in Texas. [7]
Municipal Courts are the most active courts, with County Courts and District Courts handling most other cases and often sharing the same courthouse. Administration is the responsibility of the Supreme Court of Texas, which is aided by the Texas Office of Court Administration, Texas Judicial Council and the State Bar of Texas, which it oversees.
Kristen Brauchle Hawkins: First female appointed as a Judge of the Eleventh District Court in Houston, Texas (2019) [Fort Bend County, Harris County and Montgomery County] Irene Gertrude Brown (1911) and Rose Zelosky: [95] First females to graduate from the University of Texas law school (1914) [ Hays , Travis and Williamson Counties, Texas ]
The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go to one of the fourteen intermediate courts of appeals, with one exception: death penalty cases. The latter are taken directly to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the court of last resort for ...