ABOUT THE EDTX BAR ASSOCIATION

The Eastern District of Texas Bar Association (EDTX Bar Association) was founded in 1995 by a group of individuals dedicated to the rule of law through the preservation of trial by jury. The mission of the EDTX Bar Association is to facilitate the administration of justice in the Eastern District of Texas, one of Texas’ oldest federal judicial districts, with its origin dating back to 1857.

Historically, the Eastern District of Texas included the entire Eastern half of Texas and “… was particularly involved in post-Civil War property rights disputes, federal vs. state law issues and voting rights cases. In later years the Eastern District of Texas went on to play a significant “…role in the populist era of the 1900’s, the oil boom of the Twenties and Thirties, the Civil Rights era and the postwar population, business, energy, and tech booms (Barringer p. 11).

The current configuration of the EDTX still includes the 43 most eastern counties in Texas. Extending from Cooke County in the Northwest to Jefferson County in the Southeast, the District encompasses over 50,000 square miles. Its population in the 2020 census was calculated to be approximately 4 million and has courthouses located in Tyler (Headquarters), Beaumont, Lufkin, Marshall, Plano, Sherman, and Texarkana.

Collegiality and the Constitution: The Eastern District of Texas 1846 to 2006; Barringer, Mark Daniel