Arvo Mikkanen
Attorney
Arvo Quoetone Mikkanen (born April 1961) is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. He has been a judicial law clerk, civil practitioner, judge, tribal prosecutor, law professor, and federal criminal prosecutor during his legal career which began in 1986. Mikkanen is a lecturer and frequent instructor in federal criminal investigations, prosecution issues and Indian affairs law. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
Early life and education
Mikkanen is an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, a federally recognized Indian tribe, and is also of Comanche and Finnish descent. He received an A.B. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1983, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He received the William S. Churchill prize as the outstanding freshman at Dartmouth College for the Class of 1983 and received the Morrell Goldberg Prize for academic service several years later. He was also the recipient of the Gold United States Congressional Award from the U.S. Congress in 1985. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1986, and was the Class Marshal for the Class of 1986 at the Yale Law School and while at Yale received the Beinecke Award in 1986. After graduating law school, Mikkanen served as a law clerk for Judge Lawrence S. Margolis of the United States Claims Court, and followed that with a clerkship for Judge Robert M. Parker of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
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