Tuesday, January 21 2020, 4:30pm 101 Miller Learning Center, University of Georgia Guest speaker Title: "CHEROKEE JUSTICE: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow" Stacy Leeds is a former justice on the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. From 2011-2018, Leeds served as the dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law and was the first native woman to serve as dean of a law school in the United States. She is a recipient of the American Bar Association's Spirit of Excellence Award and an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a former Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellow affiliated with the W.E.B. DuBois Institute (now Hutchins Center) at Harvard University and a former Sequoyah Fellow at Northeastern State University. Leeds is well-known for national and local public service. She was the first woman to serve as a Cherokee Nation Supreme Court Justice and she has served as a judge for many tribal judiciaries. This event is sponsored by The Institute of Native American Studies. It is free and open to the public. Stacy Leeds Cherokee Nation Stacy Leeds homepage
