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Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

Posted: October 11, 2021
“Seeing these Native 1Ls is a sign that we are still here and are thriving in spite of what was done to us.” Weston Jones chose to attend Mitchell Hamline because it occupies his people’s traditional lands. A member of the Oglala Lakota Nation who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South …

Mitchell Hamline welcomes record number of Native students

Mitchell Hamline student planning post-graduation work for her tribe’s self-determination and self-sufficiency

Posted: September 28, 2021
“I will be the first tribal member to earn a law degree. And now, some of my students want to attend law school.” Angela Levasseur is certain people would wonder why she applied to law school at age 41. The enrolled member of the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, who lives on her reservation in northern Manitoba, …

Mitchell Hamline student planning post-graduation work for her tribe’s self-determination and self-sufficiency

Mitchell Hamline Professor Colette Routel appointed to judgeship

Posted: July 29, 2021
Mitchell Hamline Professor Colette Routel has been named to the bench in Hennepin County, Minnesota. The appointment, announced Thursday by Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, was one of two made to fill vacancies in the Fourth Judicial District that will occur with the retirements of Judges Margaret Daly ‘81 and Kathleen Sheehy. …

Mitchell Hamline Professor Colette Routel appointed to judgeship

Prairie Island general counsel helps tribe protect reservation, expand governance

Posted: January 21, 2021
‘I want to help them self-determine’ Jessie Stomski Seim ’08 remembers her dad driving down St. Paul’s historic Summit Avenue, admiring the Victorian homes and dropping hints while passing William Mitchell College of Law’s iconic building. “‘You would be a great lawyer,’” she recalls him saying. “‘Wouldn’t it be cool if you went there?’” Those …

Prairie Island general counsel helps tribe protect reservation, expand governance

Mitchell Hamline professor Angelique EagleWoman sworn in as tribal Supreme Court justice

Posted: November 24, 2020
Mitchell Hamline professor Angelique EagleWoman spent Election Day making history – not by winning office but by entering it. Donning a mask with her 16-year old son nearby, EagleWoman swore the oath to become the newest associate justice on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Supreme Court of Appeals. The ceremony happened on the Lake Traverse Reservation in South …

Mitchell Hamline professor Angelique EagleWoman sworn in as tribal Supreme Court justice