diff --git a/src/registrar/models/utility/admin_form_order_helper.py b/src/registrar/models/utility/admin_form_order_helper.py
index 3004ec288..e2d70efd9 100644
--- a/src/registrar/models/utility/admin_form_order_helper.py
+++ b/src/registrar/models/utility/admin_form_order_helper.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 class SortingDictInterface:
     _model_list: Dict[type, type] = {}
     _sort_list: list[type] = []
-    sorting_dict = {}
+    sorting_dict: Dict[type, type] = {}
 
     def __init__(self, model_list, sort_list):
         self.sorting_dict = {
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class AdminFormOrderHelper():
     """A helper class to order a dropdown field in Django Admin, takes the fields you want to order by as an array""" # noqa
 
     # Used to keep track of how we want to order_by certain FKs
-    _sorting_dict: [SortingDictInterface] = [...]
+    _sorting_dict: [SortingDictInterface] = [...] # noqa
 
     def __init__(self, sort):
         self._sorting_dict = sort
diff --git a/src/registrar/tests/test_admin.py b/src/registrar/tests/test_admin.py
index 6575f3a4b..be62d7c1e 100644
--- a/src/registrar/tests/test_admin.py
+++ b/src/registrar/tests/test_admin.py
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ class AuditedAdminTest(TestCase):
 
             self.assertEqual(desired_order,
                              current_sort_order_coerced_type,
-                             "{} is not ordered alphabetically".format(field_name))
+                             "{} is not ordered alphabetically".format(field.name))
 
     # I originally spent some time trying to fully
     # generalize this to replace the match/arg fields,