Western District of Washington

The Western District of Washington, headquartered at the William Kenzo Nakamura Courthouse in Seattle with additional courtrooms in Tacoma, serves the Puget Sound metropolitan region with nine authorized judgeships. Seattle's concentration of major technology corporations — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Boeing — makes the district a top-tier venue for antitrust, patent, and trade-secret litigation. The district is named in honor of William Kenzo Nakamura, a Japanese American soldier from Seattle who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.