Bio

Stacy Leeds serves as Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law and directs KU’s Tribal Law and Government Center.  She also serves as adjunct faculty for the School of Business at Haskell Indian Nations University.

She has published numerous law reviews, book chapters and essays.  Her forthcoming book American Indian Property will be published by Carolina Academic Press later this year.

Leeds has served on several tribal courts including:  Prairie Band Potawatomi District Court, Supreme Court for the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, Kaw Nation Supreme Court, Cherokee Nation Supreme Court, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Court of Appeals, and a Special Judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation District Court.  

She splits her time between her home in Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation and Lawrence, Kansas.  She is married to Michael Stewart and they have one son, Hunter.