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Stacy Leeds serves as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law. She also directs KU Law's Tribal Law and Government Center. She teaches and writes in the areas of American Indian law, property, energy and natural resources, tribal governance and economic development.
Professor Leeds holds law degrees from the University of Wisconsin (LL.M) and the University of Tulsa (J.D.). She completed her undergraduate degree (B.A.) at Washington University in St. Louis.
Professor Leeds has served as a judge for many tribes including current appointments as the Chief District Court Judge for Prairie Band Potawatomi, Chief Justice for the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and Chief Justice for the Kaw Nation Supreme Court. She served as a Supreme Court Justice for the Cherokee Nation from 2002-2006.
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a native of Muskogee, she spends her down time at home near the Illinois River in rural NE Oklahoma.
For students looking for course content, please click here for the Fall 2010 Federal Indian Law class website.