US appoints a federal judge from Iraqi origins

Shafaq News / The Senate Judicial Committee agreed, on Monday, to appoint Hala Jarbou, as a federal judge, according to a White House announcement.

The American judge, Jarbou, an Iraqi Chaldean descent, immigrated with her family to the United States.

US President Donald Trump nominated Jarbou, a judge from Oakland County in Michigan, in March, to become a federal judge, according to the US channel, Al-Hurra.

Who is Hala Jarbou? 

Jarbou's Christian family roots in the town of Takleef in Nineveh, Iraq. She was born in 1971.

She had a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in Business Administration and graduated from Wayne State University to obtain a Ph.D. in Law.

Jarbou worked as an attorney general in the Eastern District of Michigan, where she was specialized in drug and firearms cases from 2010 to 2015, after which she became a judge in Oakland County and a member of Michigan Supreme Court Committee, according to the Oakland County website.

She is a former member of the Chaldean American Bar Association and a member of the Oakland County Bar Association since 2015.

Between 2001 and 2015, she was taught law at the University of Oakland, Oakland Police Academy and the National Defense Center.