Amanda White Eagle

Director, Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center

Amanda  White Eagle

Contact

amanda.whiteeagle@wisc.edu
608/262-1699
975 Bascom Mall, 7110 Law Building, Madison, WI, USA, 53706-1399

Education

J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School
B.A., Anthropology and French; Certificate in American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biography

Amanda L. White Eagle is the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center Director and Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Wisconsin Law School. Before joining UW Law School, White Eagle was the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project Clinical Fellow.

With nearly 20 years of tribal law experience, she has provided advice and counsel to the Ho-Chunk Nation government. She previously served as a judicial officer (an interim chief judge and associate judge), as well as the tribe’s Attorney General and Executive Director for the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Justice. Additionally, she serves as a tribal court judge or justice to tribal governments throughout the United States, including the Wampanoag Judiciary, Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals, Santee Sioux Nation Judiciary and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians.

She received her J.D. from University of Wisconsin Law School and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with liberal arts degrees (a B.A. in Anthropology and French and a Certificate in American Indian Studies).

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