Resources on the History of the Ninth Circuit Courts

Ninth Circuit History Resources

• Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society
• Library of Congress: Ninth Circuit Records and Briefs
• Statutes Establishing Judgeships in the Ninth Circuit
• Circuit Celebrates Centennial of San Francisco Courthouse
• Historic Federal Courthouses (searchable by state)
• David C. Frederick, Rugged Justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941, University of California Press, 1994.

Ninth Circuit District History Resources

• Eastern District of California Historical Society
• Northern District of California Historical Society
• Idaho Legal History Society
• Idaho’s Federal Courts 1863-2010
• Pioneer Courthouse Historical Society
• The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966-2006, Southwestern University Law Review, vol. 36, no. 2 (2007).
• George Cosgrave, Early California Justice: the History of the the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, 1849-1944, Grabhorn Press, 1948.
• Christian G. Fritz, A Judicial Odyssey: Federal Court in Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties, Advisory Committee - San Jose Federal Court, San Jose, 1985.
• Robert Watt Ware, Southern District of California History of United States Marshals, 1850-1958: Containing Also a Brief History of the State of California and a History of the United States District Court of the Southern District of California, [No publisher], 195?.