Stacy L. Leeds, who earned her master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2000 as a William H. Hastie Fellow, has announced her candidacy for Cherokee Nation Principal Chief. The general election will be June 23, 2007.

In 2002, Leeds became the first woman to serve as a justice on the Cherokee Nation’s Supreme Court. The Oklahoma-based tribe has 260,000 members nationwide.

Leeds is a professor of law at the University of Kansas, and directs the university’s Tribal Law and Government Center and Center for Indigenous Nations Studies. Previously she taught for two years at the University of North Dakota Law School and directed that school’s Northern Plains Indian Law Center.

Leeds has a Web site at www.stacyleeds.com .

Submitted by on February 13, 2007

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