The District Court of the Virgin Islands[1] (in case citations, D.V.I.)

Judges serve for terms of ten years at a time, and until a successor is chosen and qualified.

[3][4] The District Court used to have jurisdiction over all local civil actions brought in the Virgin Islands, but in 1976 the Virgin Islands Legislature—as allowed by the Revised Organic Act of 1954—gave a portion of this jurisdiction to the former Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, at that time the local trial court.

Similarly, the Legislature gave the Territorial Court jurisdiction over certain criminal actions brought under Virgin Islands law in 1985 and expanded that jurisdiction to all criminal cases in 1993, although the United States Attorney may still bring certain criminal actions in the District Court in some circumstances.

The current United States attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands is Delia L. Smith.