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Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Executive Director Indian Legal Program, Affiliate Professor, American Indian Studies Program, Faculty Fellow, Center for Law and Global Affairs
 Professor Rebecca Tsosie, J.D., has served as Executive Director of the top ranked Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University since 1996. Professor Tsosie has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy, and cultural rights. Professor Tsosie is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural resources and cultural pluralism. She has used this work as a foundation for her newest research, which deals with Native rights to genetic resources. Professor Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, has also worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations. She serves as a Supreme Court Justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and as a Court of Appeals Judge for the San Carlos Tribal Court of Appeals. Professor Tsosie speaks at several national conferences each year on topics related to tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and tribal rights to environmental and cultural resources. Professor Tsosie was appointed as a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar in 2005. Prior to this, she held the title of Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics. She is an Affiliate Professor for the American Indian Studies Program. She joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1993 and teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory. She is the co-author with Robert Clinton and Carole Goldberg of a federal Indian law casebook entitled American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System. Tsosie was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and received the American Bar Association's "2002 Spirit of Excellence Award." She is the 2006 recipient of the "Judge Learned Hand Award" for Public Service.
Robert Clinton, Foundation Professor of Law & Affiliated Faculty, American Indian Studies Program
 Robert N. Clinton was born and raised in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan where he received a B.A. in political science in 1968 and attended the University of Chicago Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1971. After private practice in Chicago, he joined the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law in 1973, where he taught until 2000. While at the University of Iowa College of Law he served as the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and as an Affiliated Faculty Member of the American Indian and Native Studies Program of the University of Iowa College of Liberals Arts. For the 2001-2003 academic years, Professor Clinton served as the Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions at Arizona State University and currently serves as the Foundation Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and as an Affiliated Faculty member of the ASU American Indian Studies Program.
He has visited as a scholar or teacher at the law schools of the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, Cornell University, and the University of San Diego. Additional, he has often taught in the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indian and Native Alaskan Students sponsored by the American Law Center, Inc.
Professor Clinton also serves as the Chief Justice of the Winnebago Supreme Court, and as Associate Justice of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals, as Associate Justice for Colorado River Indian Tribe Court of Appeals and as a temporary judge for other tribes. He teaches and writes about federal Indian law, tribal law and Native American history, constitutional law, federal courts, civil procedure and copyrights. His publications include numerous articles on federal Indian law and policy, constitutional law, and federal jurisdiction. He is the co-author of casebooks on Indian law and federal courts, and The Handbook of Federal Indian Law, Colonial and American Indian Treaties: A Collection (on CD-ROM), and over 25 major articles on federal Indian law, American constitutional law and history, and federal courts.
Kevin Gover , Professor of Law & Affiliated Faculty, American Indian Studies Program
 Kevin Gover, a member of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, joined ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law faculty in July 2003. Professor Gover received his B.A. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and his J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he graduated cum laude. After law school, he served for two years as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Juan Burciaga.
Professor Gover is a former Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. During his three years in that position, Gover oversaw the operation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its programs, including those related to gaming, recognition, trust assets, self-determination, water rights, tribal courts, law enforcement, and education. Professor Gover also advised and reported directly to the Secretary of the Interior. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary, he practiced law for thirteen years in Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, NM, representing Indian tribal governments and tribal agencies. Professor Gover was most recently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP focusing on federal law relating to Indians and on Indian tribal law. He also serves as a Judge for the Tonto Apache Tribal Court of Appeals, and the San Carlos Apache Tribal Court of Appeals.
Carl J. Artman, Professor of Practice
Carl J. Artman, an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, is a shareholder of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. He served as the tenth Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior. He had served also as the Department’s Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs. Mr. Artman has legal, policy development, and business experience that includes working for Congressman Michael Oxley, the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin as Director of Federal Affairs and Chief Legal Counsel, and Airadigm Communications, an Oneida Tribe-owned telecommunications venture, as Chief Operating Officer.Mr. Artman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia College in Missouri, a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a juris doctorate from the Washington University – St. Louis, MO, and an LLM in Natural Resources and Environmental Law from the University of Denver. He is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin, Colorado and Pennsylvania. He will head the College of Law's new Economic Development initiative and teach the course, Economic Development in Indian Country.
Paul Bender, Professor of Law & Dean Emeritus
 Professor Paul Bender earned his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1957, where he was Developments and Supreme Court Editor of the Law Review. From 1958 to 1959, Professor Bender served as a law clerk to Judge Learned Hand of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The following year, Professor Bender was law clerk to Justice Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court of United States. Prior to becoming Dean of the College of Law in 1984, Professor Bender spent twenty-four years as a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Bender was Dean of the College of Law until 1989. He served, from 1993 to 1996, as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. In this capacity, he supervised federal government appellate litigation in a number of important areas, including race and sex discrimination and the enforcement of constitutional rights. He has argued more than twenty cases before the United States Supreme Court. He returned to the faculty in spring 1997. Professor Bender is coauthor of Political and Civil Rights in the United States.
Patty Ferguson-Bohnee , Indian Legal Clinic Director
Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee received her Bachelors degree with Honors in Native American Studies with an Emphasis in Policy and Law from Stanford University and her Juris Doctorate from Columbia University School of Law with a certificate in Foreign and Comparative Law. During law school, Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee served on the Editorial Board of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, participated in the Human Rights Internship Program, and participated in the Mediation Clinic. After law school, Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee clerked for the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee was an Associate in the Indian Law and Tribal Relations Practice Group at the law firm of Sacks Tierney P.A.
Ferguson-Bohnee has substantial experience in federal and state tribal recognition matters and recently assisted four bayou tribes in obtaining recognition from the state of Louisiana. She has conducted historical research projects on Louisiana Indians and served as Fulbright Scholar to France, where she researched French colonial relations with Louisiana Indians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Ferguson-Bohnee has represented tribal clients in administrative, state, federal, and tribal courts, as well as before state, city, and county governing bodies. Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee recently proposed revisions to the Real Estate Disclosure Reports to include tribal provisions. Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee has extensive experience in voting rights and election law matters. Ferguson-Bohnee has assisted in complex voting rights litigation on behalf of tribes, and she has drafted state legislative and congressional testimony on behalf of tribal clients with respect to voting rights issues. In addition, Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee has assisted tribal entities in government relations, drafting appellate briefs, drafting grievance decisions, drafting codes and constitutions, and analyzing environmental compliance issues.
Ms. Ferguson-Bohnee is a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe.
Kathlene Rosier, Esq., Director
Kate is a member of the Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Capital University, Kate worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Area Office in the trust division. In 1995, Kate attended the Pre-Law Summer Institute for Native Americans and relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah to attend the University of Utah's College of Law. Kate graduated from the College of Law in May, 1998 with her Juris Doctor degree and is now licensed to practice law in the state of Arizona. Prior to accepting the director position, Kate worked as a tribal prosecutor for the Gila River Indian Community.
Ann Marie Downes , Director of ILP Graduate Programs
.jpg) Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes, an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, recently served as the Policy Advisor for Tribal Affairs to Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. Downes previously served a three-year term as president of Little Priest Tribal College located in Winnebago, NE. As president, Downes was responsible for the day-to-day administration and program implementation at Little Priest Tribal College and assisted the college in attaining 10 years of continued accreditation. Downes is a licensed attorney in the state of California and earned a J.D. degree from Arizona State University in 1994 and a bachelor's degree in education from Wayne State College in 1991.
Sunny Larson Reedy, Administrative Associate
Sunny Larson is the Administrative Associate for the Indian Legal Program. She has been with the ILP since 1994. Sunny has worked in various administrative positions for over 40 years. She began working at ASU in 1966 at the College of Education. She currently assists the Executive Director, Director and ILP faculty at the College of Law. Aside from her law school duties Sunny is also a teacher of Tai Chi Chuan, yoga, sacred movement, traditional dance, meditation, and natural voice. She taught at the ASU dance department in 1985 and moved to California where she taught for several years at UCSD, Scripps Institute, and Palomar College. She currently teaches movement at a studio in Mesa.
Darlene Lester, Program Coordinator 
Darlene is the Program Coordinator for the Indian Legal Program. She coordinates Indian Legal Program lectures and CLE conferences, as well as the ILP's Online and Home Study Continuing Legal Education resources. Darlene also assists Professor Robert N. Clinton and Professor Carl J. Artman. She has been with the law school since 2002, after relocating from Canada. Her background includes office management, budgeting and accounting, event coordination, corporate/technical writing and editing. She loves to explore the southwest and travel with her family and friends.
Alison Ewing, Librarian
 Alison is the library liaison for the Indian Legal Program. In that capacity she supports the research of the faculty, students and staff of ILP. She is a Reference Librarian at the Ross-Blakley Law Library where she has worked since 1993. Prior to that she was the law librarian at Brown & Bain and Meyer, Hendricks, Victor Osborn and Maledon in Phoenix, Arizona. Alison also served as a Lexis-Nexis representative and held various positions in law firm marketing and recruiting. Alison has taught classes in legal research including: Specialized training on the use of Arizona legal materials and legislative history, legal materials related to Federal Indian Law and Tribal Law, Mexican law materials, and research strategy. Alison received her bachelor's degree in psychology and her master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan.
Jennifer Williams, CLA
Certified Legal Assistant
 Jennifer is the Legal Assistant for the Indian Legal Clinic. She assists Professor Ferguson-Bohnee, as well as the student attorneys with Clinic related matters including day-to-day operations, handling active cases, and fielding inquiries from potential clients. An alumnus of ASU, she received her Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree in 2000 and is thrilled to be part of the ASU team once again. Jennifer brings with her over 10 years experience in administrative and executive legal assistant positions. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter.
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