She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2012, according to the article in Wikipedia, and serves as the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada in Reno. Here she poses with the instigator of the Burns Amendment, now deceased.
Rulings in 2020 regarding mail-in balloting suggest she leans left politically, which was almost certainly a prerequisite for her nomination.
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