The thirteen original federal district court judges were:

• Richard Law (District of Connecticut)

• David Sewall (District of Maine)

• John Lowell (District of Massachusetts)

• John Sullivan (District of New Hampshire)

• James Duane (District of New York)

• Gunning Bedford (District of Delaware)

• Harry Innes (District of Kentucky)

• William Paca (District of Maryland)

• David Brearley (District of New Jersey)

• Francis Hopkinson (District of Pennsylvania)

• Cyrus Griffin (District of Virginia)

• Nathaniel Pendleton (District of Georgia)

• William Drayton (District of South Carolina)