<Li> Southern District of Texas </Li> <Li> Western District of Texas </Li> <P> The court is one of 13 United States courts of appeals . Composed of 17 active judges, it is based at the John Minor Wisdom United States Court of Appeals Building in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the clerk's office located at the F. Edward Hebert Federal Building in New Orleans . </P> <P> This court was created by the Evarts Act on June 16, 1891, which moved the circuit judges and appellate jurisdiction from the Circuit Courts of the Fifth Circuit to this court . At the time of its creation, the Fifth Circuit covered Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas . </P>

United states court of appeals for the fifth circuit clerk's office