Tulsa attorney John O'Connor was nominated by President Donald Trump for a federal judgeship in April and appeared at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. [Photo provided]

Tulsa attorney John O'Connor, who is being considered for a federal judgeship that would span all of Oklahoma, faced few questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.

O'Connor was nominated by President Donald Trump in April to be a roving federal judge covering Oklahoma's three judicial districts, which are based in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Muskogee. It's expected he would spend a majority of his time in Tulsa and Muskogee.

Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, asked about O'Connor's membership in the Brother House of Tulsa, a decades-old men's club. Durbin said the group discriminates against women and read aloud from a Tulsa newspaper article that stated Brother House's mission was to "develop male spirituality and fatherhood in response to male bashing from the opposite sex."

O'Connor said the group was founded by a friend but he attended only two or three meetings "25 or 30 years ago" and never attended the group's retreats. O'Connor agreed to provide the committee with more information about the Brother House of Tulsa.