Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute

Jason Decker ’17

Posted: October 26, 2017
Jason Decker is an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. He received an A.A.S. in Law Enforcement at the Leech Lake Tribal College in 2010. While working on his law enforcement degree, Jason took a Federal Indian Law survey course. It was during that course that he realized a law degree could …

Jason Decker ’17

Student Dominic Terry profiled in Attorney at Law Magazine

Posted: October 17, 2017
Mitchell Hamline student Dominic Terry is profiled in the October issue of Attorney at Law Magazine. Terry is in the HYBRID J.D. program and also works as a full-time law clerk in the child protection division at the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office. Terry says his own life shaped how he works with families going through the …

Student Dominic Terry profiled in Attorney at Law Magazine

Terry elected to National Native American Law Student Association Executive Board

Posted: October 5, 2017
Mitchell Hamline student, Dominic Terry, has been elected as the Secretary of the National Native American Law Student Association (NNALSA) for the 2017-2018 academic year. His profile on the NNALSA website says: Yá’át’ééh (Hello), My name is Dominic Terry and I am a member of the Navajo Nation (Diné). I am a student at  Mitchell …

Terry elected to National Native American Law Student Association Executive Board

Judge Megan Treuer ’05

Posted: October 3, 2017
Judge Megan Treuer has heritage of the White Earth Ojibwe. She is the daughter of a citizen of the White Earth Nation and an Austrian Jew and holocaust survivor. She has spent the majority of her life living in the Leech Lake community in Northern Minnesota. Judge Treuer has devoted her legal career to fighting …

Judge Megan Treuer ’05

T. Kyle Iron Lightning ’15

Posted: October 3, 2017
Kyle Iron Lightning is a citizen of the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. He served in the U.S. Navy for over eight years before earning his bachelor’s degree at Seattle Pacific University, then moving on to the William Mitchell College of Law where he obtained his J.D. in 2015. Throughout law school Kyle was active in …

T. Kyle Iron Lightning ’15