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Diane Joyce Humetewa (; born December 5, 1964〔Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings〕〔"NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTION OF COUNSEL", No. CR-02-958-PHX-SRB (''United States v. San Diego'' )〕) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and was the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, serving in that position from December 2007 to August 2009. Confirmed in 2014 as the first Native American woman and enrolled tribal member to serve as a federal judge, Humetewa is one of three Native Americans in history to serve in this position. Humetewa is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Professor Humetewa has served as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and to the Deputy Attorney General for the U.S. Justice Department, as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Guideline Commission, Native American Advisory Committee, and as an Appellate Court Judge for the Hopi Tribe of which she is an enrolled member. ==Biography== An enrolled member of the Hopi tribe, Humetewa received her law degree in 1993 from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Beginning in 1996, she served as the Tribal Liaison in the office of the United States Attorney for Arizona. From 2001 to 2007, she served there as Senior Litigation Counsel.〔 In January 2007 Humetewa was recommended as a United States attorney by both of Arizona's senators, John McCain and Jon Kyl, nominated by President George W. Bush in November, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona on December 17, 2007. The investiture for Humetewa was held on February 6, 2008 at the Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse in Phoenix. She is the first Native American woman to serve as a U.S. Attorney.〔 〕 Humetewa was the permanent successor to Paul K. Charlton, whose dismissal on December 7, 2006 was a prominent aspect of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy in the Bush administration in early 2007. Daniel G. Knauss served as interim U.S. Attorney for one year after Charlton's dismissal. During that period, Knauss and Humetewa continued to pursue the criminal investigation of Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ), begun by Charlton in September 2006. Renzi was indicted by the US Attorney's office on February 22, 2008. A graduate of the Indian Legal Program at the ASU college of law, Humetewa is considered a national expert on Native American legal issues; she has instructed law enforcement and prosecutors on this topic. From 2002 to 2007, she served as a judge ''pro tem'' on the Hopi Tribal Appellate Court, and as an ''ad hoc'' member of the Native American Subcommittee of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.〔 Humetewa resigned effective August 2, 2009 when President Barack Obama nominated Dennis K. Burke as the next United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.〔("President Obama Nominates Eight to Serve on United States District Courts" ), White House, 19 September 2013〕 She 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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diane Humetewa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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