The Seventh Circuit Act of 1807 (formally, "An Act establishing Circuit Courts, and abridging the jurisdiction of the district courts in the districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio", ; 9th Congress, ch. 16; enacted February 24, 1807) was a federal statute which increased the size of the Supreme Court of the United States from six Justices to seven, and which also reorganized the circuit courts of the federal judiciary.[1] The Act became law on February 24, 1807, during the Jefferson administration.
The Act created a new seat on the U.S. Supreme Court and required the new Associate Justice to reside in the seventh circuit.[1]
Under the Act, the new seventh circuit consisted of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.[1]
In early 1807, the Act became law, and the justice first appointed to the new seat was Thomas Todd.