Thomas Alan Goldsborough was a United States representative from Maryland and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.