By Order of the Court, the El Paso division will be closed on Friday, April 18, 2025. This order affects the offices of the United States District Courts, United States Magistrate Courts, the United States District Clerk’s Office, the United States Probation Office, and the United States Pretrial Services Office. For more information, click the title of this news item to view the El Paso Order.

By Order of the Court, the Midland-Odessa and Pecos divisions will be closed on Friday, April 18, 2025. This order affects the offices of the United States District Courts, United States Magistrate Courts, the United States District Clerk’s Office, the United States Probation Office, the United States Pretrial Services Office and the United States Federal Public Defender Office. For more information, click the title of this news item to view the Midland-Odessa Order.

By order of the court the United States Courthouse in Waco, Texas, including the offices of the United States District Court, United States Magistrate Court, United States District Clerk, United States Probation, United States Pretrial Services, and Federal Public Defender will be closed Friday, April 18, 2025. For more information, click the title of this news item to view the Waco Order.

Due to water outage at the Midland Courthouse and federal complex, the United States District Courts, the United States Magistrate Courts, United States District Clerk’s Office, United States Probation Office, United States Pretrial Services Office, and the Executive Office of the U.S. District Clerk in the Midland-Odessa division shall be closed at noon on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 through Friday, February 21, 2025. For more information, click the title of this news item to view the Midland-Odessa Order.

Due to inclement weather and the National Weather Service’s advisory for snow and ice accumulations and for employee safety IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the United States District Courts, the United States Magistrate Courts, United States District Clerk’s Office, United States Probation Office, United States Pretrial Services Office, and the Executive Office of the U.S. District Clerk shall be closed Tuesday, January 21, 2025. Order can be referenced here.    

By Order of the Court and in observance of the National Day of Mourning for President James Earl Carter, Jr., it is hereby ORDERED that all Western District of Texas offices of the United States District Courts, the United States Magistrate Courts, the United States District Clerk, the United States Probation, the United States Pre-trial Services, and the United States Federal Public Defender shall be CLOSED January 9, 2025. For more information, click the title of this news item to view the Order Closing January Continue reading →

With the authorization of the United States Judicial Conference, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas is accepting applications for the appointment of one positions as full-time United States Magistrate Judge in El Paso, Texas. The application must be received no later than 5:00 PM (Central Time) Friday, June 21, 2024.Questions may be directed to Human Resources, (210) 249-4034. Additional information regarding the appointment and an application form are listed below. Public Notice For Appointment of United States Magistrate Judge, El Continue reading →

The Western District of Texas ECF system will be be unavailable due to extended maintenance. This outage will begin at 8 AM CST on Saturday May 18, 2024 and extend through 8 AM CST on Monday May 20, 2024. If this maintenance is completed prior to that time, this notice will be removed. Please plan accordingly. Thank you in advance