The Indian Heritage of Tanya S. Chutkan, U.S. District Judge Assigned to Trump’s Jan. 6 Trial August 25, 2023 She was born in Kingston, Jamaica to Indo-Jamaican father and Afro-Jamaican mother. Despite her qualifications and experience, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan has faced virulent criticism because of the color of her skin. “For a lot of people, I seem to check a lot of boxes: immigrant, woman, Black, Asian. Your qualifications are always going to be subject to criticism and you have to develop a thick skin,” she wrote in an article published on the United States Courts website in February in recognition of African American History Month. She was nominated in December 2013 by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She was confirmed by the Senate in a 95-0 vote. Chutkan was born and raised in Jamaica to an Indo-Jamaican father and an Afro-Jamaican mother. Indo-Jamaicans are the descendants of people who came from the Indian ...