Alumni Highlights

Jessie Stomski Seim, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in 2008. Jessie began her legal career at the law firm of Briggs and Morgan, where she represented business clients in a wide array of matters ranging from high-stakes and class-action litigation to employment counseling and …

Jessie Stomski Seim ’08

Justice Anne K. McKeig (White Earth Ojibwe) is a graduate of Hamline University  School of Law and an Associate Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court. Originally from Federal Dam, Minnesota, which is within the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Justice McKeig obtained her B.S. from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. She went on …

Justice Anne K. McKeig ’92

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

Judge Megan Treuer, the daughter of a citizen of the White Earth Nation and an Austrian Jew and holocaust survivor, 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 for the rights and well-being of Native Americans, first as …

Judge Megan Treuer ’05

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

Ellen (Frick) Venegas is a 2013 graduate of William Mitchell College of Law, where she focused on Indian law. During law school, she served as Secretary and Community Outreach Coordinator of the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA). She also participated in the National NALSA Moot Court Competition. Ellen gained valuable experience during law school …

Ellen Venegas ’13

Anne McKeig ’92 was sworn in as an associate justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court today. McKeig is the court’s 94th associate justice. A descendant of the White Earth Ojibwe, she is the first American Indian to serve on Minnesota’s highest court. In addition, McKeig is the first American Indian woman in the country to serve …

Anne McKeig ’92 sworn in on Minnesota Supreme Court

Shauna Coons is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Shauna is an attorney at Hogen Adams PLLC, where she assists tribal governments with real estate, business, and governance matters and a variety of tribal and federal Indian law issues. Most recently, she secured a historic reservation proclamation that added over 2,000 …

Shauna Coons ’07

Michael L. Murphy graduated with honors from the Indian Law Program at William Mitchell College of Law in the spring of 2012.  During law school, he served as the Fundraising Chair and Community Outreach Chair for the school’s Native American Law School Association, competed in two NNALSA Moot Courts, interned for the United States Department …

Michael L. Murphy ’12