Diane Joyce Humetewa
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Born 1964.
Federal judicial service
Newest firstJudge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama (Democratic)
- Nominated
- Jan 6, 2014
- Senate vote
- 96 to 0
- Confirmed
- May 14, 2014
- Commissioned
- May 16, 2014
Education
- A.A.S., Phoenix College, 1985
- B.S., Arizona State University, 1987
- J.D., Arizona State University College of Law (now Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law), 1993
Career
- Deputy counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 1993-1996
- Counsel to the deputy attorney general, Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 1996-1998
- special assistant U.S. attorney, District of Arizona, 1997-1998
- Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Arizona, 1998-2007
- senior litigation counsel, 2001-2007
- U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (on detail), 2005-2006
- Judge, Hopi Appellate Court, Keams Canyon, Arizona, 2002-2007
- U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, 2007-2009
- Acting chief prosecutor, The Hopi Tribe, Keams Canyon, Arizona, 2009
- Private practice, Phoenix, Arizona, 2009-2011
- Professor of practice, Arizona State University College of Law, 2011-2014
- Special advisor to the president and special counsel, Office of General Counsel, Arizona State University, 2011-2014
Other nominations
Nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, September 19, 2013; no Senate vote
DataSources: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal JudgesData as of Oct 29, 2026
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