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词条 Stacy Leeds
释义

  1. Education

  2. Academic and judicial career

  3. Honors

  4. Personal

  5. Published works

  6. References

  7. External links

Stacy L. Leeds (born 1971) is an American Law professor, scholar, and former Supreme Court Justice for the Cherokee Nation. She is currently the Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law.[1] She is Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, a post she has held since 2011. She was a candidate for Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 2007.[2]

Education

Stacy Leeds earned her MBA from the University of Tennessee Executive MBA program, her Master of Laws degree from the University of Wisconsin and her Juris Doctor degree from University of Tulsa. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis.[3]

Academic and judicial career

Leeds is an experienced leader in law and higher education with expertise in American Indian Law, tribal governance, property, economic development and Cherokee legal history.

Leeds currently serves as the chief judge of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation's District Court, the associate judge of the Kaw Nation's Supreme Court, and the chief justice of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma's Supreme Court.[3]

Leeds serves on the board of the National American Indian Court Judge's Association and on the National Judicial College's tribal advisory board.[3]

Leeds is well-known for both national and local public service. She was the youngest person to ever serve as a Cherokee Nation Supreme Court judge, as well as the only woman.[4]

In the past, she has served as a special judge for the Muscogee Creek Nation's District Court and associate judge of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians's Court of Appeals.[4]

From 2011-2018, Leeds served as the 12th Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law. She is the only native woman to have served as dean of a law school in the United States. She formerly served as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas and the Director of Tribal Law and Government Center at KU. Previously Leeds taught law at the University of North Dakota and served as Director of the Northern Plains Indian Law Center.[3]

She currently serves as Vice Chancellor for Economic Development, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas. She provides leadership for campus-wide engagement, collaboration, and outreach to citizens, businesses, governmental and nonprofit entities in Arkansas and beyond. She works closely with UA's ten colleges, schools and divisions to amplify the university's economic and social impact

Honors

Leeds received the Fletcher Fellowship in 2008, when she was also named a nonresident fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. While teaching at the University of Wisconsin, she was the William H. Hastie Fellow.[3]

In 2006 Leeds received the AALS Clyde Ferguson Award for Excellence in Teaching, Service, and Scholarship. At KU she received the Immel Award for Teaching Excellence, and she has been named Alumni of the Year from the National Native American Law Students Association.[3]

Personal

She grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

Published works

  • Leeds, Stacy L. and Angelique Townsend Eaglewoman. Mastering American Indian Law. 2013.[5]
  • Leeds, Stacy L. American Indian Property. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-59460-262-7}}
  • Leeds, Stacy L., Darrell Dowty, Darell Matlock, and the Cherokee Nation. In the Judicial Appeals Tribunal of the Cherokee Nation: Lucy Allen, petitioner, v. Cherokee Nation Tribal Council, Lela Ummerteskee, registrar, and registration committee, respondents. Tahlequah, OK: Cherokee Nation, 2006.
  • Leeds, Stacy L. Cross Jurisdictional Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2009.[6]

References

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2. ^LJWorld.com / Law professor makes case for Cherokee Nation post
3. ^Stacy L. Leeds. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090808160201/http://www.law.ku.edu/faculty/faculty/leeds.shtml |date=2009-08-08 }} KU School of Law. (retrieved 15 August 2009)
4. ^Justice Stacy L. Leeds. Cherokee National Judicial Branch. (retrieved 15 August 2009)
5. ^{{Cite book|title = Mastering American Indian Law|url = https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-American-Indian-Carolina-Academic/dp/1594603294|publisher = Carolina Academic Press|date = 2013-08-27|isbn = 9781594603297|language = English}}
6. ^[https://books.google.com/books?q=stacy%20leeds&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wp Stacy Leeds.] Google Books. (retrieved 15 August 2009)

External links

  • Official Stacy Leeds site
  • Tsalagi Think Tank, maintained by Stacy Leeds
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12 : 1971 births|Living people|People from Muskogee, Oklahoma|Cherokee people|Muscogee people|University of Tennessee alumni|University of Tulsa College of Law alumni|American legal scholars|University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni|Native American academics|Native American lawyers|Scholars of Native American law

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