On November 7, 2017, Teeter received a "not qualified" rating from the American Bar Association (ABA). The ABA gave Teeter the rating because it believes that one must have 12 years of legal experience to be qualified for the federal bench. Teeter had 11 years and 11 months of experience at the time of the rating.[7][8] Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal called the ABA's standard "arbitrary", and Teeter's nomination gained bipartisan approval from the Judiciary Committee,[7][9] which reported her nomination out of committee by a 19–1 vote on November 9, 2017.[10] Judicial website The Vetting Room wrote that the ABA's rating was unlikely to impact Teeter's chance at being confirmed, as she has "stellar academic credentials" and has clerked only for judges nominated by Democratic presidents.[11]
On January 3, 2018, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.[12] On January 5, 2018, Trump announced his intent to renominate Teeter to a federal judgeship.[13] On January 8, 2018, her renomination was sent to the Senate.[14] On January 18, 2018, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 21–0 vote.[15] On August 1, 2018, her nomination was confirmed by voice vote.[16] She received her judicial commission on August 3, 2018.[17]
In Ricard v. USD 475 Geary County, KS School Bd. (2022), Judge Teeter held that a public school teacher had a First Amendment right to disclose the "preferred pronouns" of a student to that student's parents without the student's permission, notwithstanding district policy which purported to forbid such involuntary disclosures. Judge Teeter concluded that the district's policy constituted religious discrimination against the teacher, and interfered with "parents' exercise of a constitutional right to raise their children as they see fit."[18][19]