On May 14, 2014, the U.S. Senate confirmed Diane Humetewa to serve as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Humetewa, a Hopi tribal citizen, will be the first Native American woman to serve on the federal bench.
Biographical information about Humetewa and details of her appointment are available here, from Native News Online.net. A statement on the confirmation by U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp is available here from Turtle Talk, the Indigenous Law and Policy Center Blog at Michigan State University College of Law. Humetewa was nominated last September by President Barack Obama (more information here from Indian Country Today).
Related resources in the McKusick Law Library:
Gender & Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter, by Sally J. Kenney
Federal Judges Revealed, by William Domnarski
The Directory of Minority Judges in the United States
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