
Hala Yalda Jarbou (1971-) was the Republican Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan from 23 September 2020, succeeding Robert Holmes Bell. Born in Tel Kaif, Iraq to a Chaldean Catholic family, she was raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan and became a lawyer in 1997. She joined the Federalist Society in 2011 and went on to serve as Judge of the 6th Circuit Court of Michigan from 2015 to 2020 (appointed by Governor Rick Snyder) and as a federal judge from 2020 (appointed by Donald Trump).