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Biography
Holly Lou Teeter (born 1979) is currently an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Biography
Teeter received her Bachelor of Science with highest distinction from the University of Kansas School of Engineering, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was a member of the Kansas Law Review and graduated first in her class. Earlier in her career, she practiced patent law at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, and was a patent law clerk at Los Alamos National Security.
She served as a law clerk to Judge Brian C. Wimes of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri and to Judge Carlos Murguia of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Nomination to district court
On August 3, 2017, President 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 Hoefer Vratil, who assumed senior status on April 22, 2014. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.