Holly Teeter
Holly Teeter | |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas | |
Assumed office August 3, 2018 | |
Appointed by | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Kathryn H. Vratil |
Personal details | |
Born | Holly Lou Hydeman 1979 (age 44–45) Kansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
Education | University of Kansas (BS, JD) University of Oxford (GrDip) |
Holly Lou Teeter (née Hydeman; born 1979)[1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Early life and education
Teeter was born Holly Lou Hydeman in 1979 in Kansas City, Kansas. She graduated from Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.[2]
Teeter studied
Career
After graduating from law school, Teeter practiced
In 2016, Teeter was hired by United States Attorney Tammy Dickinson to serve as a Civil Assistant United States Attorney for Western District of Missouri.[4] Teeter worked at the United States Department of Justice until becoming a judge.
Federal judicial service
On August 3, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Teeter to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to the seat vacated by Judge Kathryn H. Vratil, who assumed senior status on April 22, 2014.[5] On October 17, 2017, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[6]
On November 7, 2017, Teeter received a "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association (ABA). The ABA gave Teeter the rating because it believes that one must have 12 years of legal experience to be qualified for the federal bench. Teeter had 11 years and 11 months of experience at the time of the rating.[7][8] Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal called the ABA's standard "arbitrary", and Teeter's nomination gained bipartisan approval from the Judiciary Committee,[7][9] which reported her nomination out of committee by a 19–1 vote on November 9, 2017.[10] Judicial website The Vetting Room wrote that the ABA's rating was unlikely to impact Teeter's chance at being confirmed, as she has "stellar academic credentials" and has clerked only for judges nominated by Democratic presidents.[11]
On January 3, 2018, her nomination was returned to the President under
In Ricard v. USD 475 Geary County, KS School Bd. (2022), Judge Teeter held that a public school teacher had a First Amendment right to disclose the "preferred pronouns" of a student to that student's parents without the student's permission, notwithstanding district policy which purported to forbid such involuntary disclosures. Judge Teeter concluded that the district's policy constituted religious discrimination against the teacher, and interfered with "parents' exercise of a constitutional right to raise their children as they see fit."[18][19]
References
- ^ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees: Holly Lou Teeter" (PDF). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ "Confirmation hearing set for Kansas judicial nominee". LJWorld. October 13, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
- National Archives.
- ^ "Holly Lou Teeter – Nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas". The Vetting Room. October 16, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017.
- National Archives.
- ^ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov. October 17, 2017. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ a b "US Senate Panel Endorses Prosecutor for Judgeship in Kansas". U.S. News & World Report. Associated Press. November 9, 2017. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ "Trump is nominating lots of "unqualified" judges and Democrats can't do anything to stop him". Newsweek. November 17, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
- ^ Savage, Charlie (November 11, 2017). "Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Here's How". The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – November 9, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee" (PDF). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- ^ Hancock, Peter (November 8, 2017). "Majority of judicial rating committee says Kansas attorney not qualified for federal bench". Lawrence Journal-World. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
- ^ "Congressional Record". www.congress.gov. Retrieved January 5, 2018.
- National Archives.
- National Archives.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – January 18, 2018, Senate Judiciary Committee" (PDF). Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- ^ "PN1424 — Holly Lou Teeter — The Judiciary". United States Senate. January 8, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
- ^ Holly Teeter at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ Ricard v. USD 475 Geary County, KS School Bd., https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ksd.140603/gov.uscourts.ksd.140603.21.0.pdf
- ^ Volokh, Eugene (May 12, 2022). "Teacher Has Free Exercise Clause Right to Tell Parents About Their Children's "Preferred Names and Pronouns,"". The Volokh Conspiracy.
External links
- Holly Teeter at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.