1. Diane Joyce Humetewa is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
14 Facts About Diane Humetewa
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Diane Humetewa previously served as the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona from 2007 to 2009.
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Diane Humetewa is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.
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Diane Humetewa has served as counsel to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and to the Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice, as a member of the United States Sentencing Guideline Commission, Native American Advisory Committee, and as an Appellate Court Judge for the Hopi Tribe, of which she is an enrolled member.
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Diane Humetewa is Native American and is an enrolled member of the Hopi tribe.
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Diane Humetewa earned an associate degree from Phoenix College in 1985, then graduated from Arizona State University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science.
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From 1987 to 1990, Diane Humetewa worked as a victim advocate for the US Attorney's Office for the Arizona federal judicial district.
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Diane Humetewa then attended Arizona State's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, graduating in 1993 with a Juris Doctor.
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From 1993 to 1996, Diane Humetewa was a deputy counsel for the US Senate's Committee on Indian Affairs.
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In January 2007 Diane Humetewa was recommended as a United States attorney by a United States Attorney.
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Diane Humetewa was appointed in 2011 as ASU's Special Advisor to the university president for American Indian Affairs and Special Counsel in the Office of General Counsel at ASU.
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On September 19,2013, President Barack Obama nominated Humetewa to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, to the seat vacated by Judge Mary H Murguia, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on January 4,2011.
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Diane Humetewa was one of four Arizona judicial nominees announced by Obama that day who were chosen in consultation with Republican senators John McCain and Jeff Flake.
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Diane Humetewa received her judicial commission on May 16,2014.