Nancy D. Freudenthal
| Nancy Dell Freudenthal | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming | |
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Assumed office July 24, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | William F. Downes |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming | |
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Assumed office May 6, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Clarence Addison Brimmer, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Nancy Roan February 5, 1954 Cody, Wyoming |
| Spouse(s) | Dave Freudenthal |
| Education |
University of Wyoming B.A. University of Wyoming College of Law J.D. |
Nancy Dell Freudenthal (born February 5, 1954) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming. She is the first female judge to serve in the District of Wyoming. Freudenthal was also the First Lady of Wyoming from January 6, 2003 to January 3, 2011.
Born on February 5, 1954 in Cody, Wyoming, Freudenthal earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 from the University of Wyoming and a Juris Doctor in 1980 from the University of Wyoming College of Law.
From 1980 until 1989, Freudenthal worked in the office of the Wyoming governor as an attorney for intergovernmental affairs. From 1989 until 1991, she served on the Wyoming Tax Commission, and from 1989 until 1995, she was on the board of the Wyoming Board of Equalization. Nancy Freudenthal has spent much of her legal career working on energy and environmental issues. In 1995, she took a job as an associate at the Cheyenne, Wyoming law firm of Davis & Cannon. In 1998, she became a partner and held that post until her nomination as a federal judge.
According to the questionnaire that Freudenthal submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, after the election of Barack Obama, Freudenthal's husband, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, asked her if she would be interested in serving as a federal district judge for Wyoming. Her husband subsequently—without telling her—submitted three possible nominees to the Obama administration for it to consider nominating: his wife, another attorney, Ford Bussart, and a state district court judge, Norman E. Young. "I thought about that long and hard, and the question really came down to (was) should she be penalized for having married me," Dave Freudenthal told a local newspaper. "And the conclusion I came down to is that all three of them are qualified, and fortunately, it's up to the president and not me."
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