Holly Teeter
{{Short description|American judge (born 1979)}}
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| name = Holly Teeter
| image = Holly Lou Teeter official photo.jpg
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| office = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
| appointer = Donald Trump
| term_start = August 3, 2018
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| predecessor = Kathryn H. Vratil
| successor =
| birth_name = Holly Lou Hydeman
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1979}}
| birth_place = Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
| death_date =
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| education = University of Kansas (BS, JD)
University of Oxford (GrDip)
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Holly Lou Teeter ({{nee}} Hydeman; born 1979){{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Teeter%20SJQ.pdf|title=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees: Holly Lou Teeter|access-date=January 5, 2018}} 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.{{cite news |title=Confirmation hearing set for Kansas judicial nominee |url=https://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/oct/13/confirmation-hearing-set-kansas-judicial-nominee/ |access-date=5 May 2019 |publisher=LJWorld |date=October 13, 2017}}
Teeter studied chemical engineering at the University of Kansas, graduating in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science with highest distinction. She earned a diploma in legal studies from the University of Oxford in 2003, then returned to the United States to attend the University of Kansas School of Law, where she was a member of the Kansas Law Review. She graduated in 2006 class Valedictorian with a Juris Doctor degree and Order of the Coif honors.
Career
After graduating from law school, Teeter practiced patent law at Los Alamos National Security from 2006 to 2007 and at the Kansas City law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon from 2007 to 2011. Teeter was a law clerk for judge Carlos Murguia of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas from 2011 to 2013 and for judge Brian C. Wimes of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri from 2013 to 2016.{{cite web |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/03/president-donald-j-trump-announces-sixth-wave-judicial-candidates-and |work=whitehouse.gov |title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Sixth Wave of Judicial Candidates and Fifth Wave of U.S. Attorney Candidates – The White House|via=National Archives |access-date=January 5, 2018}}
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.{{cite web|title=Holly Lou Teeter – Nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas |date=October 16, 2017 |url=https://vettingroom.org/2017/10/16/holly-lou-teeter/|publisher=The Vetting Room|access-date=December 8, 2017}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/03/eighteen-nominations-sent-senate-today|work=whitehouse.gov|title=Eighteen Nominations Sent to the Senate Today – The White House|via=National Archives|access-date=January 5, 2018}} On October 17, 2017, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/10/17/2017/nominations|title=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|website=www.judiciary.senate.gov|date=October 17, 2017 |access-date=January 5, 2018}}
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.{{cite news|title=US Senate Panel Endorses Prosecutor for Judgeship in Kansas|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kansas/articles/2017-11-08/kansas-attorney-ranked-as-unqualified-for-federal-bench|access-date=December 4, 2017|agency=Associated Press|publisher=U.S. News & World Report|date=November 9, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/trump-nominating-unqualified-judges-left-and-right-710263|title=Trump is nominating lots of "unqualified" judges and Democrats can't do anything to stop him|date=November 17, 2017|work=Newsweek|access-date=December 14, 2017}} Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal called the ABA's standard "arbitrary", and Teeter's nomination gained bipartisan approval from the Judiciary Committee,{{cite news|last1=Savage|first1=Charlie|title=Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Here's How. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/politics/trump-judiciary-appeals-courts-conservatives.html|access-date=December 4, 2017|work=The New York Times |date=November 11, 2017}} which reported her nomination out of committee by a 19–1 vote on November 9, 2017.{{cite web |url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11-9-17%20Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – November 9, 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee|access-date=January 5, 2018}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Hancock|first1=Peter|title=Majority of judicial rating committee says Kansas attorney not qualified for federal bench |url=http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2017/nov/08/teeter-judicial-nomination-dealt-setback/ |access-date=December 4, 2017|publisher=Lawrence Journal-World |date=November 8, 2017}}
On January 3, 2018, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2018/1/3/daily-digest|title=Congressional Record |website=www.congress.gov|access-date=January 5, 2018}} On January 5, 2018, Trump announced his intent to renominate Teeter to a federal judgeship.{{cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-renomination-21-judicial-nominees/|work=whitehouse.gov|title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Renomination of 21 Judicial Nominees|via=National Archives|access-date=August 2, 2018}} On January 8, 2018, her renomination was sent to the Senate.{{cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/nominations-sent-senate-today-2/|work=whitehouse.gov|title=Nominations Sent to the Senate Today|via=National Archives|access-date=August 2, 2018}} On January 18, 2018, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 21–0 vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%2001-18-181.pdf |title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – January 18, 2018, Senate Judiciary Committee|access-date=August 2, 2018}} On August 1, 2018, her nomination was confirmed by voice vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/115th-congress/1424|title=PN1424 — Holly Lou Teeter — The Judiciary|last=|first=|date=January 8, 2018|website=United States Senate|access-date=August 1, 2018|language=en}} She received her judicial commission on August 3, 2018.{{FJC Bio|nid=5019311|inline=yes}}
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."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{{cite web|url=https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/12/teacher-has-free-exercise-clause-right-to-tell-parents-about-their-childrens-preferred-names-and-pronouns/|title=Teacher Has Free Exercise Clause Right to Tell Parents About Their Children's "Preferred Names and Pronouns,"|first=Eugene|last=Volokh|website=The Volokh Conspiracy|date=May 12, 2022}}
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