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On April 28, 1988, Butler was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama vacated by Emmett Ripley Cox.
The courthouse was designed to house the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and the United States Customs Service.