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 has heritage of the White Earth Ojibwe and 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 …

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 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

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

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

Veronica (Roni) Newcomer is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Roni grew up all over as both her parents were members of the United States Army but finally settled in Minneapolis with her mother and brother. Roni graduated from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2008 with a …

Veronica (Roni) Newcomer ’13

Bonnie J. Claxton, an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, graduated from the Indian Law Program at William Mitchell in 2013.  During law school, she served as President of the Native American Law Students Association and Chair of the Minnesota Justice Foundation.  She competed in NNALSA Moot Court twice, participated in the William Mitchell Indian …

Bonnie Claxton ’13

Lenor Scheffler was born and raised on the Lower Sioux Reservation near Morton, Minnesota, and is an enrolled member of the Lower Sioux Dakota Community. In 1988, she graduated from William Mitchell College of Law, becoming the first enrolled member of any Minnesota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe to become a lawyer. She remains active in the …

Lenor Scheffler ’88