About the District

The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas represents the United States and its agencies in civil and criminal litigation before the United States District Court as well as on appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

A component of the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas was established in 1879 to prosecute federal crimes and represent federal agencies in matters in North Texas. The District encompasses 100 counties across 96,000 square miles and a population of more than eight million people and maintains staffed offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Amarillo and Abilene, with additional unstaffed offices in Wichita Falls and San Angelo. Geographically, the Northern District of Texas is the largest land area district in the country, except for federal districts that encompass an entire state.

The U.S. Attorney is the highest-ranking Department of Justice official within the jurisdiction and serves as the office’s main ambassador to the community. 

You can find more information about our office on our Frequently Asked Questions page.

Note: Texas has three other United States Attorney’s Offices: The Western District of Texas (which covers Austin, San Antonio, Waco, and El Paso), the Southern District of Texas (which covers Houston, Galveston, Laredo, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville), and the Eastern District of Texas (which includes Plano, Beaumont, Lufkin, and Tyler). All four Texas U.S. Attorney’s Offices – and indeed, all 94 U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the nation – take their cues from the United States Attorney General.