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Ann E. Tweedy joined the faculty at University of South Dakota School of Law in January 2020. She previously served as an in-house attorney for Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and for Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and in an Of Counsel role at Kanji & Katzen, PLLC. Her work in practice focused primarily on natural resources law and environmental law in the context of protection of Tribal treaty resources. She played an integral role in treaty rights cases that were heard by the Ninth Circuit, the District of Columbia Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court, including the subproceeding of United States v. Washington known as the Culverts Case. Professor Tweedy has taught at Michigan State University College of Law, California Western School of Law, and Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell Hamline), where she served as an Associate Professor. Most recently, she served as an adjunct professor in University of Tulsa College of Law’s online Masters of Jurisprudence Program in Indian Law. She is a noted scholar on tribal jurisdiction and tribal civil rights law, as well as on bisexuality and the law. Her scholarship has been cited in Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law and other treatises and excerpted in textbooks, including Justin B. Richland and Sarah Deer’s Introduction to Tribal Legal Studies and William B. Rubenstein et al.’s Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law. She has been invited to present at many conferences in the United States and abroad and, in 2016, presented the Annual Rubash Distinguished Lecture in Law and Social Work at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. After graduating from University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif, Ann clerked for the Honorable Ronald M. Gould of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Rex Armstrong of the Oregon Court of Appeals. She currently serves as Chair of the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Section. She is also a past Chair of the Washington State Bar Association’s Indian Law Section, and she formerly served as a volunteer Hearing Officer for the Disciplinary Board of the Washington State Bar Association. She was recently appointed to the Suquamish Court of Appeals. Professor Tweedy is also an award-winning poet. She is the author of one full-length poetry book and three chapbooks.
Federal Indian Law, Federal Courts, Tribal Law, Gender, Sexuality & Law, Property, Water Law, Employment Discrimination, Conflict of Laws
