28 U.S.C. § 41 — Number and composition of circuits

This section is a table listing all thirteen federal judicial circuits and the states or territories in each one. It does not use lettered subsections; it is one list. The circuits are: District of Columbia Circuit — the District of Columbia. First Circuit — Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island. Second Circuit — Connecticut, New York, and Vermont. Third Circuit — Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands. Fourth Circuit — Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Fifth Circuit — the District of the Canal Zone, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Sixth Circuit — Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. Seventh Circuit — Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Eighth Circuit — Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Ninth Circuit — Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Guam, and Hawaii. Tenth Circuit — Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming. Eleventh Circuit — Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. Federal Circuit — every federal judicial district in the country, rather than a group of states.