Suzanne Mitchell (born 1968) is a United States magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the

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Biography

Mitchell received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree in 1990 from Georgetown University. She received a

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, magna cum laude, in 1996 from the

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, graduating Order of the Coif. She served as a

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to Judge Robert Harlan Henry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and later served as a senior law clerk to Judge Henry, from 1999 to 2010. From 1997 to 1999, she was a transactional attorney for an Oklahoma city based law firm. She served as an

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in the Appellate Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Oklahoma, from 2010 to 2013. Since 2013, she has served as a United States magistrate judge in the Western District of Oklahoma.

Expired nomination to district court

On December 16, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Mitchell to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, to the seat vacated by Judge

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, who took senior status on July 7, 2013. She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on April 20, 2016. On May 19, 2016, her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.Results of Executive Business Meeting – May 19, 2016, Senate Judiciary Committee
/ref> Her nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the

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Personal life

She is married to Samuel R. Fulkerson, a managing shareholder at Ogletree Deakins law firm, and resides in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They have four children.

References

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