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Diane Joyce Humetewa

Diane Joyce Humetewa

Arizona District Court

Born 1964 in Phoenix, AZ

FJC ID: 3536

Diane Joyce Humetewa ( HOO-mə-TAY-wə; born 1964) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Humetewa is the first Native American woman and the first enrolled tribal member to serve as a U.S. federal judge. She previously served as the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona from 2007 to 2009. Humetewa is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law.

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.

Gender
Female
Race
American Indian

Prior employment

  1. Arizona State University College of Law
    Professor of practice · 2011–2014
  2. Office of General Counsel, Arizona State University
    Special advisor to the president and special counsel · 2011–2014
  3. Private practice, Phoenix, Arizona
    2009–2011
  4. U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona
    2007–2009
  5. The Hopi Tribe, Keams Canyon, Arizona
    Acting chief prosecutor · 2009
  6. District of Arizona
    District of Arizona
    Assistant U.S. attorney · 1998–2007
    • senior litigation counsel · 2001–2007
    • U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (on detail) · 2005–2006
  7. Hopi Appellate Court, Keams Canyon, Arizona
    Judge · 2002–2007
  8. Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
    Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
    Counsel to the deputy attorney general · 1996–1998
    • special assistant U.S. attorney, District of Arizona · 1997–1998
  9. U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
    Deputy counsel · 1993–1996

Appointments

  1. Arizona District Court
    2014–present · Appointed by Barack Obama (Democratic)

Education

  1. Arizona State University College of Law (now Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law)
    J.D. · 1993
  2. Arizona State University
    B.S. · 1987
  3. Phoenix College
    A.A.S. · 1985