President nominates federal prosecutor to be U.S. judge in Tulsa

Sen. Tom Coburn objects to Obama’s nomination of Arvo Mikkanen as U.S. judge in Tulsa, calling him “unacceptable.”

 
BY CHRIS CASTEEL | Published: February 3, 2011   

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday named a longtime federal prosecutor in Oklahoma City to be a U.S. district judge in Tulsa, but Sen. Tom Coburn immediately voiced his opposition.

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Arvo Mikkanen, an assistant U.S. attorney since 1994 in the western district, was nominated by Obama to be a judge in the northern district, based in Tulsa.

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