Assignment of Judges
In the absence of a conflict of interest, all cases filed in the Northern District of Texas are assigned to judges as follows:
- Abilene: resident judge of the Lubbock Division.
- Amarillo: resident judge of the Lubbock Division.
- Dallas: randomly assigned through automated case assignment system to one of the three resident judges of the Dallas Division.
- Fort Worth: randomly assigned through automated case assignment system to one of the two resident judges of the Fort Worth Division.
- Lubbock: resident judge of the Lubbock Division.
- San Angelo: resident judge of the Lubbock Division.
- Wichita Falls: assigned to one of the resident judges of the Dallas Division.
Alpha letters in the case number indicate judge assignment. The two or three letters appearing after the case number indicate the specific judge assigned. For example, case 04-34331-bjh7, is assigned to Judge Barbara J. Houser.
Judicial assignments are indicated according to the following codes:
BJH Honorable Barbara J. Houser
RLJ Honorable Robert L. Jones
DML Honorable D. Michael Lynn
HDH Honorable Harlin D. Hale
RFN Honorable Russell F. Nelms
SGJ Honorable Stacey G. C. Jernigan
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