University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 81 Issue 4, Fall 2010
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
KEVIN K. WASHBURN, Keynote Address at the University of Colorado Law Review Symposium: “The Next Great Generation of American Indian Law Judges,” held on January 29–30, 2010, is the Dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law. After graduating from Yale Law School, Dean Washburn clerked for Judge William C. Canby, Jr., of the Ninth Circuit. He served as a practicing lawyer in the field of Indian law for several years prior to entering the academy. His practice included work as a civil litigator handling environmental law and Indian tribal rights to land and water, as a federal prosecutor of Indian country offenses, and as the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. Before joining the New Mexico faculty as its dean, he was the Rosenstiel Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. He served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Law School from 2002–2008 and spent the 2007–08 academic year as the Visiting Oneida Nation Professor at Harvard Law School. Dean Washburn has written extensively in the fields of Indian law, criminal law, and gaming law, and serves as a co-author and co-editor of the Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005 ed., 2007 & 2009 Supp.) and co-author of Goldberg, Tsosie, Washburn, and Washburn, American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System (LexisNexis, 6th ed. 2010). He is also the author of a casebook on the law of gaming/gambling. He is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, and he serves as the tribally appointed chief judge of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe Court of Appeals of Michigan.
MATTHEW L.M. FLETCHER, Resisting Federal Courts on Tribal Jurisdiction, is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He is the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also sits as an appellate judge for the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Hoopa Valley Tribe. Professor Fletcher will be co-author of the sixth edition of Cases on Federal Indian Law (Thomson West, forthcoming 2011) with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams, and will author American Indian Tribal Law (Aspen, forthcoming March 2011), the first casebook for law students on tribal law. He recently published American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law (Routledge 2008), and co-edited Facing the Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 with Wenona T. Singel and Kathryn E. Fort (Michigan State University Press 2009). Professor Fletcher has published articles with Arizona Law Review, Harvard Journal on Legislation, Hastings Law Journal, Houston Law Review, Tulane Law Review, and many others. Finally, Professor Fletcher is the lead editor and author of the leading law blog on American Indian law and policy, Turtle Talk. Professor Fletcher graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 and the University of Michigan in 1994. He has worked as a staff attorney for four Indian Tribes—the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Grand Traverse Band, and he has been a consultant to the Seneca Nation of Indians Court of Appeals. He is a citizen of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, located in Peshawbestown, Michigan. He is married to Wenona Singel, a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and they have two sons, Owen and Emmett.
CAROLE GOLDBERG, In Theory, In Practice: Judging State Jurisdiction in Indian Country, is the Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies at UCLA. She also serves as a Justice of the Court of Appeals of the Hualapai Tribe. Professor Goldberg is co-author of a casebook, American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System (6th ed. 2010) and co-editor and co-author of the 1982 and 2005 editions of the leading treatise in the field, Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law. She has published articles and books on a wide range of subjects in federal Indian law and tribal law, including state jurisdiction on reservations under Public Law 280, individual rights issues in Indian country, and the constitutionality of federal and state classifications favoring Indians. She and Professor Duane Champagne are co-authors of a report for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice under Public Law 280 (2008), and recently received a $1.5 million grant from NIJ to conduct a nationwide study of the administration of criminal justice in Indian country.
TROY A. EID, Separate But Unequal: The Federal Criminal Justice System in Indian Country, co-chairs the American Indian Law Practice Group at Greenberg Traurig LLP in Denver and served as the United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, appointed by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2006. He is an Adjunct Professor in the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Chicago Law School, Professor Eid clerked for the Honorable Edith H. Jones, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He has been honored for outstanding public service by numerous law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Secret Service. Professor Eid was ceremonially robed by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe last year for successfully fighting violent crime on that reservation, the first non-Ute Tribal member ever to be so honored.
CARRIE COVINGTON DOYLE, Separate But Unequal: The Federal Criminal Justice System in Indian Country, is an Associate at Gutterman Griffiths PC, a family law firm in Littleton, Colorado. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable John R. Webb of the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2009–2010. Carrie holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School; an M.A. in American History from University of Utah; and a B.A. in History and Policy Studies from Rice University. At the University of Colorado Law School, Carrie received the Indian Law Clinic and Natural Resources Awards, and her note was published in the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy.
JILL E. TOMPKINS (Penobscot), Finding the Indian Child Welfare Act in Unexpected Places: Applicability in Private Non-Parent Custody Actions, is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the American Indian Law Clinic at the University of Colorado Law School. She teaches substantive federal Indian and tribal law and lawyering skills in a clinical setting. Professor Tompkins is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and she is admitted to practice in the States of Maine, Connecticut, and Colorado, tribal courts of the Penobscot Nation, Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and the United States Supreme Court. She has over twenty years of legal and judicial experience garnered through her legal practice, service as a Chief Judge with the Mashantucket Pequot and Passamaquoddy Tribal Courts, and as Appellate Justice with the Mashantucket Pequot, Passamaquoddy, and Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Courts of Appeal. She was recently appointed as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Tribal Court. Professor Tompkins has taught at the National Judicial College and for six years successfully organized and taught at the annual National Tribal Judicial Conference sponsored by the National American Indian Court Judges Association. She was the first woman to serve as President of the National American Indian Court Judges Association. Professor Tompkins came to Colorado Law in 2001 from the National Tribal Justice Resource Center, where she was the founding Executive Director. She is a frequent lecturer on the topics of tribal courts, the application of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, and the Maine Indian Land Claim Settlement Act. She founded the National Tribal Law Clerk Program (http://lawweb.colorado.edu/ilc_clerkships/) and is the co-author of A Guide for Tribal Law Clerks and Judges.
SARAH KRAKOFF, Tribal Civil Judicial Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers: A Practical Guide for Judges, is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Colorado Law School. She specializes in American Indian Law and Natural Resources Law. She is the author of articles on tribal sovereignty, climate change and its effects on American Indian tribes, public lands, and environmental ethics. Her casebook, American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary, co-authored with Bob Anderson, Philip Frickey, and Bethany Berger, is a widely used teaching text. Before coming to Colorado, Professor Krakoff worked for DNA-Peoples’ Legal Services on the Navajo Nation (1993–1996), where she represented Navajo school children in civil rights cases. Professor Krakoff clerked for Judge Warren Ferguson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals from 1992–93. She received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1991 and her B.A. from Yale University in 1986.