Bloomberg
Sara Hill, who served as the top lawyer for the Cherokee Nation, won bipartisan confirmation to a US trial court in Oklahoma where she’ll be one of the few American Indian judges in federal judiciary history.
The Senate voted 52-14 on Tuesday to send the tribe’s former attorney general to the US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s Republican senators James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin have supported Hill’s nomination despite opposition from Gov. Kevin Stitt, also a Republican. He’s questioned Hill’s ability to be unbiased in matters related to her advocacy around a US Supreme Court decision that’s overhauled prosecutions on tribal lands in the state.
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