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.

[6] "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.

[3] Freudenthal would fill the vacancy created in 2006 when Judge Clarence Addison Brimmer, Jr. assumed senior status.

[6] The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing on Freudenthal's nomination on January 20, 2010.