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.
Deputy U.S. Marshals are the sworn side, working court security, prisoner custody and transport, and fugitive apprehension out of district offices attached to the federal courts. Detention enforcement officers, aviation staff, and the analysts and administrative staff behind asset forfeiture and witness security fill out the rest.