| Court Type: | district |
| Court Name: | United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
| Abbreviation: | S.D. Ind. |
| Seal Size: | 150 |
| Map Image Width: | 150 |
| Courthouse: | Birch Bayh Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse |
| Location: | Indianapolis |
| Courthouse1: | United States Courthouse (Terre Haute, Indiana) |
| Location1: | Terre Haute |
| Courthouse2: | Winfield K. Denton Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse |
| Location2: | Evansville |
| Courthouse3: | Lee H. Hamilton Federal Building & U.S. Courthouse |
| Location3: | New Albany |
| Appeals To: | Seventh Circuit |
| Established: | April 21, 1928 |
| Judges Assigned: | 5 |
| Chief: | Tanya Walton Pratt |
| Us Attorney: | Zachary A. Myers |
| Us Marshal: | Joseph D. McClain |
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana (in case citations, S.D. Ind.) is a federal district court in Indiana. It was created in 1928 by an act of Congress that split Indiana into two separate districts, northern and southern. The Southern District is divided into four divisions, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Evansville, and New Albany. Appeals from the Southern District of Indiana are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The court has five judges, four full-time United States magistrate judges and two part-time magistrate judges.
The courtrooms are located in the Birch Bayh Federal Building in Indianapolis.
The United States District Court for the District of Indiana was established on March 3, 1817, by .[1] [2] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on April 21, 1928, by .[2] Of all district courts to be subdivided, Indiana existed for the longest time as a single court, 111 years.
Indianapolis: Bartholomew County, Boone County, Brown County, Clinton County, Decatur County, Delaware County, Fayette County, Fountain County, Franklin County, Hamilton County, Hancock County, Hendricks County, Henry County, Howard County, Johnson County, Madison County, Marion County, Monroe County, Montgomery County, Morgan County, Randolph County, Rush County, Shelby County, Tipton County, Union County, and Wayne County.[3]
Terre Haute: Clay County, Greene County, Knox County, Owen County, Parke County, Putnam County, Sullivan County, Vermillion County, and Vigo County.
Evansville: Daviess County, Dubois County, Gibson County, Martin County, Perry County, Pike County, Posey County, Spencer County, Vanderburgh County, and Warrick County.[4]
New Albany: Clark County, Crawford County, Dearborn County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Jackson County, Jefferson County, Jennings County, Lawrence County, Ohio County, Orange County, Ripley County, Scott County, Switzerland County, and Washington County.[5]
| Name | Term started | Term ended | Presidents served under | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Jeffrey[6] | 1929 | 1933 | Herbert Hoover | |
| Val Nolan | 1933 | 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| B. Howard Caughran | 1940 | 1950 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman | |
| Matthew E. Welsh | 1950 | 1952 | Harry S. Truman | |
| Marshall Hanley | 1952 | 1953 | Harry S. Truman | |
| Jack Brown | 1953 | 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| Don Tabbert | 1957 | 1961 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| Richard P. Stein | 1961 | 1967 | ||
| K. Edwin Applegate | 1967 | 1969 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon | |
| Stanley B. Miller | 1970 | 1974 | Richard M. Nixon | |
| John E. Hirschman | 1974 | 1975 | Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford | |
| James B. Young | 1975 | 1977 | Gerald Ford | |
| Virginia Dill McCarty | 1977 | 1981 | Jimmy Carter | |
| Sarah Evans Barker | 1981 | 1984 | Ronald Reagan | |
| Richard L. Darst | 1984 | 1984 | Ronald Reagan | |
| John Daniel Tinder | 1984 | 1987 | Ronald Reagan | |
| Bradley L. Williams | 1987 | 1988 | Ronald Reagan | |
| Deborah J. Daniels | 1988 | 1993 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush | |
| John J. Thar | 1993 | 1993 | George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton | |
| Judith A. Stewart[7] [8] | 1993 | 2000 | Bill Clinton | |
| Timothy M. Morrison[9] | 2000 | 2001 | Bill Clinton and George W. Bush | |
| Susan Brooks | 2001 | 2007 | George W. Bush | |
| Timothy M. Morrison | 2007 | 2010 | George W. Bush and Barack Obama | |
| Joe Hogsett | 2010 | 2014 | Barack Obama | |
| Joshua Minkler | 2015 | 2021 | Barack Obama and Donald Trump | |
| Zachary A. Myers | 2021 | present | Joe Biden |