U.S. Marshals Service careers
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George Washington signed the commissions of thirteen U.S. Marshals on September 26, 1789, two days after the Judiciary Act that created the office became law. Each state was one judicial district at the start, except Massachusetts, which was split into Massachusetts and Maine. Kentucky had a district of its own three years before it became a state, and Congress had created sixteen districts in all by the end of Washington's first administration. Washington picked men with strong local ties as deliberately as he picked men loyal to the new federal government, trying to balance national authority against the rights the states were guarding.
A federal law enforcement agency organized by judicial district puts personnel work in an unusual shape. Sworn deputies carry law enforcement retirement provisions and entry age limits, administrative staff sit on regular federal schedules, and the district structure is laid over the federal court map instead of a regional one.