The Judicial Conference of the United States has agreed to close six non-resident federal court facilities, leading to savings of about $1 million a year in an on-going cost-cutting effort. Each facility contains a courtroom, but has no full-time resident federal judge. The following is a list of those facilities affected:
- Wilkesboro, North Carolina, (upon completion of the renovation of the courthouse in Statesville, North Carolina);
- Beaufort, South Carolina, (at the end of the lease term in 2014);
- Meridian, Mississippi;
- Amarillo, Texas, (upon the cancellation of the lease for the bankruptcy court space);
- Pikeville, Kentucky, (releasing the bankruptcy courtroom and chamber in leased space); and
- Gadsden, Alabama.